Another day at home, two hours sitting reading, one hour sleeping in bed, repeat…
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32732.html: Bill Joy leaves Sun.
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32780.html: Bill Joy, creator of
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I think this is the first time I’ve ever snarfed an entire Slashdot article, but I found so many of the subjects referenced interesting that it seemed the easiest way. I’ve just about given up reading anything below the article itself, 99.9% of Slashdot seems to be crap.
SmellsLikeTeenGarlic writes “Seth Nickell (of Storage and Gnome HIG fame) has started a new project which aims to replace the aging Init system on Linux. OSNews has more details on the project, directly from Seth. The new Python-based approach will make booting faster and it will talk to the D-BUS daemon, freedesktop.org’s leading project. And speaking of freedesktop.org, it is important to mention the release of HAL 0.1, an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer for KDE, XFce and Gnome, based on a proposal by freedesktop.org’s founder Havoc Pennington and being implemented by David Zeuthen. It is innovative projects like Storage, SystemServices and HAL that can bring the kind of integration to the underlying system that current X11 desktop environments lack.
Later in the afternoon I head up the street for some groceries, then stopped on the way home for a drink and a snack. Sitting watching the traffic go by, seeing everything that is ugly about Australia. The view is dominated by the width of the road — town planning twisted so cars are more important than people. Drivers cursing, swearing, hooting at each other, then in turn stopping where they shouldn’t, turning where it’s forbidden. One, two, three… half a dozen… ten… I quickly lose count of the number yacking away on their phones, minds in neutral, inches from the car in front. Amazing that they don’t run into each other more often.
