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Monthly Archives: August 2005

i smell a business opportunity

28 August 2005

No match for “ILLEGALIMMIGRANTMARRYAMARINE.COM”.

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professor snugglesworth

24 August 2005

Slashdot has a nice review of Lucene in Action. Lucene is the search infrastructure underlying Beagle and this book mandatory reading for Beagle hackers. It is one of the most well-written tech books I’ve read in a long time, up there with Robert’s coup de grace Linux Kernel Development (2nd Edition). It [...]

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cnn developing a backbone?

24 August 2005

It’s so rare that a mainstream media outlet actually calls out bullshit, but here I am, reading this on CNN.com:
“I didn’t say ‘assassination.’ I said our special forces should ‘take him out.’ And ‘take him out’ can be a number of things, including kidnapping; there are a number of ways to take out a dictator [...]

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everyone hates the sound of their own voice

15 August 2005

… except me. My voice sounds so much better on tape than it does in my own head. But it’s not all perfect… I do seem to say “uhh” a lot.
Late last week I did an interview for LugRadio which is up now in which I talk about Beagle. Amazingly I didn’t [...]

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netapplet

13 August 2005

Jeff: I don’t think a “netapplet/NetworkManager debacle” characterization is accurate. Netapplet is a hack at best that more or less simply calls “ifup” and “ifdown” on interfaces. It’s 3700 lines of code. We never intended it to be a GNOME solution or even a cross-distribution one. That wasn’t because of any [...]

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