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Keeping afloat in a binary ocean

Micro-rant: One of my pet peeves as a guy who likes to say his piece online is the number of really interesting and useful technologies / ideas completely ruined by lazy attempts at marketing by even lazier “salesmen” and marketers. Look at email – DKIM/SPF/DNSBLs/greylisting just to keep the

Experiences in both success and failure

I did my bit: [http://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting] I really do like where things are headed and I’m sure the good work will continue ? There’s been some lively debates on the mailing lists of late, but it’s worked out smoothly and courteously in this humble hacker’

Result may be fit, social with an open messaging standard on top.

Techie Happenings: I’ve been tinkering with more XMPP (Jabber to you oldies) messaging in general, as it happens. I’ve had a look at the python Yahoo transport and found it a little lacking – it’s config is a little too different to the python MSN / ICQ / AIM transports

The Sir Humphrey Appleby Award goes to...

ObFedoraContent: I have now permanently retired the Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 sections of my repository. As I mentioned a few nights ago, those with older releases should really consider upgrading to a supported release or move to RHEL/CentOS. Cheers. Skip the rest if you’re only wanting things