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Hello everybody! I will try and be more available to posts and discussion (if any) and suchlike here. Ahem. What will I talk about on this fine (and wine-filled) evening?
Firstly, when Debian GNU/Linux checks an ext3 partition, why does it say “check after next mount” on *every* boot?
Secondly, udev, hald, hotplug, g-v-m form a very dynamic foursome in the quest for a usable desktop. You can get some of those from Debian unstable, some from Debian experimental; the combination as a whole gives a feeling of a nicely designed system that will *work* in the future.
Thirdly, I’m sure everybody knows that totem is the up-and-coming GNOME app for viewing multimedia (DivX, DVDs, VCDs, etc.). It’s a very well designed program which beats almost everything else available for the GNOME platform into non-existence. What some people may not be aware of is muine. It’s a competitor with rhythmbox as a sound organiser/player (MP3, Ogg, FLAC, WAV, etc.), but it just feels *right* as a UI. Try it out. It’ll require fairly recent Mono packages, as well as gtk-sharp. But it’s worth installing and running.
Fourthly, the US president seems to have made a right muck-up of his speech/conference on prime time TV yesterday. Yay 
Fifthly, what the hell does the Irish government think they’re doing, trying to get a really restrictive software patenting regime installed in the EU??? This is the #1 thing which might make me consider never voting for Fianna Fail again. Yeah, that’s a selfish reason for choosing why to vote for a party or not. But really, it does emphasize their stupidity to a degree which wasn’t quite as clear before. Bah.
April 15th, 2004 at 12:53 am
Re: Irish govt — tell me about it! It’s REALLY pissing me off. All of the FF MEPs I’ve written to have never replied either, while the Greens and Labour ones generally seem to be much more happy to engage in discussion — or at least send a reply.
April 15th, 2004 at 4:28 pm
voting for Fianna Fail *again*?! you should never have voted for them in the first place. they are evil.
April 15th, 2004 at 6:03 pm
I know they’re evil *now* (this is hyperbole, people). But they seemed reasonably pragmatic at the time. But there’s been the whole Freedom of Information Act thing, and now there’s this. The question is, who to vote for instead? Don’t answer that unless the answer’s obvious