Howto make "fresh lime" in free and open source way ?
As I have mentioned before we went to Malabar Palace to have food ( read as appams ) after the FOSS@NITC was over. So we ordered loads of appams and stuff to go with it. But also ordered fresh lime, if I remember correctly each of us - 10 in total - ordered some variation of fresh lime. Some with water, others with soda, some with sugar others wanted it with salt.
After a while some stuff arrived which were not exactly the drinks that we ordered. But lemon concentrate, soda bottles, water, sugar and salt. The waiter just dumped them in front of us. Almost immediately, one of us said, "Guys, this is like we have to *build* it ourselves, they have provided us with source, so all good. :)" And the discussion took off from there - "Yups, no binaries here.", "Right, I am enabling sugar and water.", "Oh yeah, I am doing a ./configure --enable-salt --enable-soda, works fine for me."
We discussed what other build options could be and what not. Everybody was laughing their behinds off. Options like --enable-water=fullcold | mixed | mineralwater | tapwater were discussed :P. We didnot forget about --stir=n (n seconds) as well :). So after all this and our stomach hurting a little bit we had to drink it to find if our custom made drinks segfaulted or worked like a charm or maybe we needed to debug a wee bit and add a bit more sugar or whatever. I remember everybody leaving the food place nicely, so it seems we *built* the drinks just fine. :)
So now were drinking our fresh lime foo and started wondering what if the appams are free and open source as well. *shudder*.
(geek PJs galore) :P