There's a meme running on PlanetDebian consisting in googling for '$YOUR_NAME needs' and reporting the first 5 hits. Here's mine...
I googled for jao needs and...
and that's it, i just get three hits containing "jao needs". If you're curious about the second one, it comes that jao is a Thai deity. Live and see. And before you accuse me of cheating, amazingly enough, searching for "Jose Antonio needs" gives no hits... looks like my alter ego needs nothing at all!
Developed by the Freaknet, Netsukuku is a new p2p routing system, which will be utilised to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and anarchical network, separated from the Internet, without the support of any servers, ISPs or authority controls. In a p2p network every node acts as a router, therefore in order to solve the problem of computing and storing the routes for 2^128 nodes, Netsukuku makes use of a new meta-algorithm, which exploits the chaos to avoid cpu consumption and fractals to keep the map of the whole net constantly under the size of 2Kb. Netsukuku includes also the Abnormal Netsukuku Domain Name Anarchy, a non hierarchical and decentralised system of hostnames management which replaces the DNS. It runs on GNU/Linux.
The whole story, with a heated debate, is available in this kuro5hin post.
A couple of links to ancient hardware used during the Soviet Union days. There's a computer gallery, complete with Sinclair and Apple ][ compatible gizmos, and a pocket calculator collection that includes scans of the documentations and images of the internal circuitry. Don't miss them.
Creative Commons has just launched its first fundraising campaign. Please, consider supporting it!. BoingBoing tells the story:
In 2.5 years, over 50,000,000 works have been licensed under CC licenses. CC licenses promote a free and open Internet, undermine the arguments for technology mandates and DRM, and benefit the developing world, disabled people, and educators and archivists (as well as creators). There are CC projects in dozens of countries around the world, which means that soon everyone will be able to play, no matter what legal system you live under.
The goal is to raise a very modest $225,000 by December 31. That's so do-able. CC is a charity, and you'll get a tax-receipt, but you also get to strike a blow for a digital future that expands our rights and freedoms.
The alternative is a future in which every click and every use and every innovation requires permission and payment. A pay-per-use, pay-per-second, ask-first world.
Installing Debian by Edd Dumbill -- Debian GNU/Linux is a powerful and popular community-developed Linux distribution--and the basis for several other useful and usable distributions. With the recent release of Debian Sarge, it's better than ever. Edd Dumbill, Debian developer and GNU/Linux advocate, walks through a typical installation, and shows that Debian's hard to install fame is, nowadays, totally undeserved. In the same vein, Martin Kraft's recent book, Debian System Concepts and Techniques does (i am told) an excellent job at introducing the concepts and techniques of the Debian operating system.
see shy jo (aka Joey Hess) is an oldtimer in FS and Debian: he's been developing Free Software for 10 years, and has been reporting his experiences in a series of blog entries. His last post beautifully summarises how hacking all these years feels like (and, of course, it feels great).
The fifth issue of the Monad Reader is out, for all you Haskell aficionados.
For this issue, the subjects are a short introduction to Haskell, generating polyominoes, a ray tracer, number parameterized types, practical graph manipulation, and a short introduction to software testing in Haskell.
The Monad.Reader is always in need of articles related to Haskell if you want to write an article, contact Shae Erisson!
Aleix has fixed some bugs of GNU MDK for Darwin and released a new version of the port. Everything, including the GUI, seems to be working fine now. I've put it in the MDK's SF site downloads section for your convenience. Thanks a lot, Aleix!
Monotone is a young SCM system that wasn't in my list (where, as you know, arch and darcs share (more or less) the pole position). Fare is using it, and has published a rather detailed report of his toilings. Maybe it's time to give it a look, although there's a couple of things i dislike about it offhand: it uses somekind of database, an ad hoc protocol and lua, my only gripe on ion.
At the build system BoF at aKademy it was decided to start moving the KDE 4 build system from unsermake to the SCons/Python based system bksys. To find out more about this important future technology, KDE Dot News talked to its lead developer Thomas Nagy about the reasons behind the change and what it will mean for KDE developers.
Interestingly, bksys goes beyond just replacing make: it is intended
as a full autotools killer, a goal looming in the far Conjure horizon.
So looks like make replacements are becoming more and more used. In
the meantime, i have had nearly no time for Conjure during the last
months. Pity.