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Say NO! to discrimination

I highly agree and support both Jono Bacon and Melissa Draper with their recent posts concerning discrimination in the community.

I left a comment on Melissa’s blog today and I very much mean everything I said. I had my eyes closed, I will admit it at the blatent discrimination that has gone in the community. I know the one form I constantly see is the use of the terms noob and newb which references a beginner at anything as a newbie. I myself find that a little disrespective and it reminds me of the days a lot of us use to tell others to RTFM.

As a community we need to rise against this, we don’t need separation, we need equality. The greater the standards and the greater the collaboration between everyone will only result in better application, and most importantly, a greater way of life in the Open Source community. We can all come together to say Microsoft this, DRM that, yet some of us tend to voice ignorance and disrespect to our own members. Age, race, religion, sex, or amount of knowledge, we are all one in this community. If you can’t live with it, I suggest you either 1) grow up, or 2) get on with life and leave the open source community, there is no room for you here!

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Debian Packaging 101

I have recently decided to concentrate more on the development side of Linux, more importantly Ubuntu, KDE, and now Debian. The first stage I will cover in my endeavors will be packaging. Packaging consists of taking the upstream tarballs (programname-version.tar.gz or .tar.bz2) and converting them into packages that can easily be installed in Ubuntu as well as Debian without you having to compile (configure, make, make install) or worrying about dependencies. A successful package that a majority of you are used to in Ubuntu and Debian look like programname_version.deb. Some of you have even done a successfull dpkg -i programname_version.deb for an application that either is not in the repositories or was updated and packaged somewhere else. Well this post is to cover the necessities before you jump in and go nuts trying to figure out how to correctly create a package.
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Can I patent this?

It seems Microsoft is up to their old bag of tricks again. This time stating Linux is violating more than 200 patents. Since Microsoft can’t beat Open Source in a popularity or software battle, they do what they do best, SUE! But who are they going to sue? It seems the kernel violates a ton of patents, as well as OpenOffice.org. I think I am going to just start suing as it seems easy as all hell these days to do so. I need to patent something, and do it quickly, how about the butterfly? Can I patent that and then tell Microsoft to kiss of and start using a grasshopper or something. Plus, don’t they know the penguin would kick the butterfly’s arse (does a butterfly even have one?).

On another note, I found out what it is like to not be 16 today. For Mother’s Day we went over to my brother’s house where he just got some big time basketball setup. Well I still suck at it, but it was fun, when I wasn’t laying down trying to catch my breath. Then we lifted some weights and right now my body feels like hell. Back, chest, arms, shoulders, legs, thighs and arse are all killing me. If you don’t hear from me in the next couple of days, you will know my body gave up and won’t let me crawl out of bed, or off the floor, whichever one I fall to first.

/me goes for the Advil!

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