Spotted this one on planet novell.

Do read the linked opinion on it — it’s highly readable and thoroughly interesting, except for the legalese running around pages 15-25 (the whole thing is 34 pages).

I came across Branden Robinson’s recent talk today, “WTFM: Write the Fine Manual.” Worth reading for anyone who’s ever wanted to change a manual but just doesn’t get all the weird syntax.

I just ran across this hysterical LWN comment today.

It is not of any help to turn “offensiveness” off. In Russian language the root (stem) “eb” corresponds to English “f*ck”. Imagine how we the poor Russians feel looking at the name “ebuild”! How can we pronounce it on a street?!

Well, there are worse problems with “eb”. “eBuisines” translated to Russian “eCommerce”, but what can we do with “ebXML”?

There are also many other dirty words. Zope, well-known web-application server, looks in Russian as the Russian word “asshole”. And often abused by people who dislike Zope.

I think it is unavoidable. There are far too many dirty words in all languages.

I felt like playing around a bit tonight, so I tracked down xscope and xmon sources and made them compile. Patches for xscope and xmon are in my Web space.

For anyone who’d like to pick up an XGI card and doesn’t really care what it is, there’s a pretty sweet deal at TigerDirect: $15 after rebate for a V3.

I found this from my favorite sale feed at Cheap Stingy Bastard.

I’ve been having trouble with my Tungsten C lately. It crashed every time I tried to use the built-in Web browser. This was quite annoying as a number of the WiFi hotspots in town have that captive portal thing, where you need to visit a Web page and sign in before you get access to anything.

After backing up the whole thing and randomly deleting files that looked related to the Web browser, I finally deleted one that fixed it — ‘Web History.pdb’. So if anyone else runs into this problem, just delete that file.

Afterward, I tried dropping the history size from 4K to 2K, just to be safe.

For everyone going to LWE next month, here’s an excellent guide on how to market your product (Gentoo, in this case) at a trade show.

The worst thing you can do at a trade show is to be boring. I won’t name names, but there are some booths here that are really easy to ignore. I always find this to be somewhat sad.

The EFF added blogging about work to its blogger’s guide. A few links from there, I found a great list of blogging policies at various companies.