Over the last few years I’ve purchased music online from a variety of sites. Aside from wanting files that sound good, a hard requirement is songs must be DRM-free. Yep, that mostly means the iTunes store is out.1
My friend Matt and I have shared a number of stories regarding our frustrations with reporting bugs to Ubuntu. He recently wrote an overview of his experiences — Why I’ve stopped reporting bugs to Ubuntu — which was linked to by OSNews. The comments there are mostly level and reasonable, but some people are missing the focus of his statement. He’s not whining “fix my bug!”, he’s drawing attention to the methodology used to process bugs.
This blows my mind: Involver, sort of a competitor to the far more interesting Mosuki :-), recently posted on their blog:
You may have noticed that our site broke this morning. Apparently the power supply on our database server decided to commit suicide while everyone was asleep.
In a very interesting article about suicide bombing in Halo 3, the author describes how the “psychology of asymmetrical warfare” led him to take up the tactic. The article is not about the game but about his insight into when suicide tactics become the reasonable choice.
On October 28, I heard/saw Pussyfinger play at Robotspeak’s 5th year anniversary party. They were completely awesome. Here’s a 30s clip I shot with my point and shoot camera:
A small PSA: If you are upgrading Ubuntu to 7.10 “gutsy”, check to see if you have the “evms” package installed. If you do, and you have no knowledge of installing it and don’t know what it is, then you probably should remove it. The consequences of keeping it are a spew of system messages:
device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: error adding target to table
Even worse, you may be unable to mount any partitions aside from /! That’s what happened to me. 🙁