Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Bla bla bla, *plaign*, bla bla bla…

It’s been a while since Mr Beranger didn’t mention what he could call the FreeBSD/X.org incident. Well, we can reset the counter [link].

The poor thing mentioned (again) being driven away from the FreeBSD Project because of two developers who shall remain nameless (one of them being myself), who dared calling him an idiot. Well, I will repeat myself: clueless and whining person == idiot.

Should you not have been an idiot, you would have admitted that your understanding of how ports and packages work was wrong and you would have just said that it was simply not a good match for your needs. There’s plenty of choice, shop around, as you’re already doing.

Apart from that, there are loads of people using patched releases (via freebsd-update(1), which you also criticized, for various utterly wrong reasons, as pointed out by Colin Percival, the maintainer of the tool) with what I’ll call stable packages (which is actually latest packages built on FreeBSD-STABLE, as opposed to current packages which are built against FreeBSD-CURRENT).

Bitbuzz quick ‘n dirty map

Seeing as Iphone 3G subscription will come with free access to BitBuzz wireless network, I checked their website and saw there was no map with all the access points on it. So I figured I’d do it myself.

Here it is. I merely generated a XML file from the data I got on bitbuzz.net, the javascript is outrageously stolen from fellow FreeBSD developer Lars Thegler.

EDIT: Bitbuzz since made their own map with all the hotspots locations on it. Check it out.