OS X on an MSI Wind

For kicks, this Christmas I decided to give myself something "hackish" to do, and noticed that the local Staples was selling the MSI Wind with SUSE on it for $299CAD. This little beast (the U90, model number MS-N811) is nice... a little bit bigger than my Eeepc, so the keys …

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Time for a change

Decided to change the theme of the site as I upgraded to the latest WordPress. Also stuck a picture of my kitties on there (Tika, who's 16 (and grey), and Pepper, who's about 1.5 (and black, obviously)).

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Mandriva update statistics

Some statistics, before I go on holidays until the end of the year.

Looking at bugfix updates, we've seen a steady increase since I've kept track (going back to 1999, although I think in 1999 it was only a half-year of doing updates).

  • 1999: 13
  • 2000: 24
  • 2001: 25
  • 2002 …
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Sad metrics on community decline

I've been saying it for a while, but never really put hard evidence to it. Our community has declined and by the numbers I'll produce, I'm going to say it declined a lot. I just wrote a quick shell script to parse the number of messages posted to each given …

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