Comments | waider: my low-grade form of fame continues

waider

my low-grade form of fame continues

Jan 25, 2006 21:43

I've been working on a plugin for Gaim to allow it to connect to Microsoft Exchange Instant Messaging. It's reached the point where it's actually usable and mostly doesn't destroy major cities when you run it. This morning someone emailed me to say he's pushed it for inclusion in Gentoo's package list. On one hand, yay, distribution; on the other ( Read more... )

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waider January 26 2006, 06:00:32 UTC

http://www.waider.ie/workshop/hacks/c/rvp/ or thereabouts. And I thought you'd be one of the dozen people signed up to my geekly diary syndication.

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anonymous January 26 2006, 20:55:41 UTC

http://waider.livejournal.com/389998.html

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waider January 26 2006, 06:04:42 UTC

Like my phone attitude, it's really just a personal vendetta.

To be honest, I switched from Slackware to Red Hat when, hmm, RH5 came out, and I've not felt any inclination to use anything else. Never bit me on the ass except when I explicitly forced it to override package dependencies, but YMMV. What draws my fire on Gentoo is that its more vocal proponents are like this: any benefits accrued by Gentoo's build-from-source policy are immediately dissipated by their constant tweaking of the system looking for that 0.00001% improvement in performance.

waider January 26 2006, 06:05:18 UTC

Also, since I don't much want a distro flame-war on my lj, I'm freezin' this thread here.

waider January 27 2006, 21:52:46 UTC

When I say, "I don't much want a distro flame-war on my lj", it is not an invitation to start posting about why you like Gentoo. I will delete any posts on the topic, since I'm a curmudgeonly bigot. YHBW.