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Election Time: Republicans Win | The Licquia Blog
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News and views from the Licquia family. Election Time: Republicans Win. It’s silly season again in America: a Presidential election year. If you don’t know that, you must really be living under a rock. As I did four years ago, I’ll post my thoughts about how I vote online for all the elections I can participate in: national, Congressional, Indiana-wide, and local. That way, you can do more than curse the ignorant Americans for their choices; you can possibly influence at least one. And what are the Repub...
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Rest In Peace, CompUSA | The Licquia Blog
https://www.licquia.org/archives/2007/12/09/rest-in-peace-compusa
News and views from the Licquia family. Rest In Peace, CompUSA. I’m very surprised about the popularity of an old post of mine, regarding my experiences with CompUSA. It continues to collect horror story comments, the last one coming less than three weeks ago. While any company has its detractors (especially any company dealing directly with the public), it seems odd to me that people continue to be motivated enough to post to my blog, of all places, their tales of woe. In an abstract sense, less competi...
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Variation in Velocity | Willowbend
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Confessions of a Wannabe Capitalist. Laquo; Ribbon Hero. What’s Wrong with Learning Haskell. A guy I’m proud to say was a co-worker of mine in an ancient past life, wrote a nice piece about a common mis-practice in measuring the velocity of a software project. I won’t re-explain velocity here. His article defines it very well and the way he explains how you can do it wrong really makes clear what it’s all about. I’d like to quibble with this point:. In Deming view there are exactly two kinds of variation.
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Standards and Conversations, Part 2 | The Licquia Blog
https://www.licquia.org/archives/2008/08/25/standards-and-conversations-part-2
News and views from the Licquia family. Standards and Conversations, Part 2. Picking up where we left off last time. The LSB spec invents things without consulting distros. Like the whole init scripts thing. But that’s not as bad as depending on RPM or requiring a specific layout. I had an eye-opening experience in Berlin in 2006. We talked to packaging people, and talked about the need for cooperation between package managers and third-party installer tools. A lot of people thought that was a ba...And w...
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Chess | The Licquia Blog
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News and views from the Licquia family. Almost Made The Paper. My chess club, in the news:. Sean Hollick and Jim Klee run two different clubs on the same day and time with contrary ideals. Yet the two agree that whether it is for the competition or simply for fun, the game of chess is a joy in which everybody should partake. Is more casual, with no dues or memberships, talking during games encourages, etc. April 9, 2007. I started playing very young; I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know...So I can ...
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FHS Refresh | The Licquia Blog
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News and views from the Licquia family. I’ve been busy tonight spamming mailing lists and otherwise getting the word out: the LSB workgroup is preparing to update the FHS. This update has been a long time in coming; FHS 2.3 (the current version) was released back in 2004. Since then, a lot has happened, and it’s starting to look like the FHS is holding things back due to the lack of updates. So, you may be asking: how can I help? First of all, get the word out! We’re tentatively shooting for a goal...
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Happy 2015! | The Licquia Blog
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News and views from the Licquia family. Look, it’s 2015. How’d that happen? Blogging has been pretty much nonexistent this year, apart from a public service announcement about the Heartbleed bug. And a public statement about boring encryption stuff. Which, if you’re actually interested in that sort of thing: I did finally get the requisite number of signatures and replaced my key in Debian just in time to avoid the Great Key Purge of 2014.). Bandwagon that seems to be all the rage among the cool kids.
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“This Is Not An Oops.” | The Licquia Blog
https://www.licquia.org/archives/2007/12/08/this-is-not-an-oops
News and views from the Licquia family. 8220;This Is Not An Oops.”. Carver County, Minnesota, is in big trouble. Eric Mattson was not surprised that the small vacant lot he bought last year near the shores of Lake Waconia was increasing in value. What shocked him was the $189 million market value the Carver County assessor’s office came up with for the 55- by 80-foot lot, making it the most valuable property in Waconia and possibly the county. So how could someone make such an egregious error? Don’...
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Comment Policy Updated: No More CAPTCHA | The Licquia Blog
https://www.licquia.org/archives/2008/09/01/comment-policy-updated-no-more-captcha
News and views from the Licquia family. Comment Policy Updated: No More CAPTCHA. The comment policy has changed; check the page links for the details. The big change: I’ve turned off the CAPTCHA page that would be presented for comments judged to be “borderline” spam by the spam filter software. So when a commenter on my last post. Expressed his dissatisfaction with my CAPTCHA. I decided it was time to turn it off. And so, references to it have been expunged from my comment policy. The Esperanto translat...