Archive for the 'Activism' Category

I have compiled version 1.0.3 of Xapian for Windows, and I have built and packaged the Python Bindings for your convenience.

You can find the new version here.

This time they are available for both Python 2.4 and 2.5. Enjoy.

See the following link. Clicky clicky.

I have waited so long for something like this to occur. Especially from Dell.

Apparently they started offering machines without windows. They are called the -n series, the hard drives come unformatted. And they explicitely mention Linux. Great.

In other unrelated news, it seems I’ll have to upgrade wordpress since 2.1 came out. Last major upgrade was nothing short of hairy, let’s hope it goes smooth.

But I did it. I am now a proud member of the Free Software Foundation.

I feel good. Really good.

If you owe a lot to Free Software, you should consider becoming a member too.

I am honestly considering becoming a member of the FSF.

120$ USD a year is a little heavy on the wallet, but it would feel right. That would be giving back a little of all the great things I got. I feel like I owe so much to Free Software, most of my passion for Unix was spawned from it…

I still need to think about that… but I think I will. I can probably afford it, even with my student loan which I’m trying to pay back.

One thing is sure, were I to win an obscene amount of money, such as, say, 15 millions, i’d immediately distribute five among my favorite Open Source projects and the FSF.

I mean, what the fuck would I need so much money for? I have no interest in living large. All I ask for is a home, room for my computers, electricty and bandwidth, and a way to pay for all of this. Maybe I’d just build a small datacenter with a phat pipe and lend out rackspace, bandwidth and servers to Free Software projects. I don’t know, anything.

One thing I know for sure is that I’d keep working. I love my job too much.

Well that wasn’t really interesting, was it? I’m tired. I’m off to bed.