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For the last 10 years I’ve lived in small town USA. Small town, small minds. At times it is as if the events are a dream. Perceptions as backwards as the roads they drive to work.

They’ve made it big time. The work in the city. Little Washington North Carolina, the original. Not much appears to have changed over time. Same family names floating around and working for the city is a good paying job.

It’s not what you know, unless you have dirt on someone, it’s who you know. Or who you’re related to, dating/married to at the moment. Not lick of common sense but still in charge of departments. They’re everywhere around here. In banks, the local government, organizations & schools.

I don’t usually discuss life in this small town since everyone knows everyone and someone from little washington is probably going to read this - if they can…

Here’s a free tip you the wannabe power players in Washington. You are not fooling anyone but yourself. No one respects you. No one likes you. And the work you do does not really even matter.

Do more with your life.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.go-mono.com:/mono -z3 co gtk-sharp

Alright - this is a SuSE 9 Pro boxen with slight modification to standard packages (mostly to get gDesklets working) and piece meal ximian desktop.

This instructs you on how to get BloGTK working with WordPress.

1. Get a copy of latest BloGTK .bz2 file, not an rpm. This is where you can download the lastest version.

2. bunzip2 *.bz2
3. tar -xvf *.tar
4. rm *.tar
5. cd Blo*/src
6. gedit post.py
7. # <- place that at the front of the line so that it looks like so:

# keywords = item['mt_keywords']

8. scroll down to line 327 and do the same as above so that it looks like so:

# keywordsEntry.set_text(keywords)

9. save post.py and exit gedit.
10. cd ../
11. we are now back in the main BloGTK directory
12. su
13. make install
14. exit
15. BloGTK
16. This will open the main window. It will want your Server URL, Username and Password. The user and password you know - this is the user/pass you use to post. The server info is slightly different. It is looking for the xmlrpc.php located on your server. So if you are http://www.you.com/ and this is the base directory for your wordpress then you can ftp into the server and see that there is an xmlrpc.php file in there. That means in the Server URL field it would look like this:

Server URL:
http://www.you.com/xmlrpc.php

And that is it. Any questions? Just ask here. Greets to Chukoury at SourceForge. Screenshot
I’ve been working from home all day so this was a nice break from normal work.

Decided to test one of the Sun Java Desktop System CDs that Sun sent me.
Test

Sun’s Java technology evangelist Raghavan Srinivas said an open source version of Java “will happen”.

Article available on subject.

Aiming to propel Linux to the status of an official international standard, the Free Standards Group (FSG) Thursday is set to announce it has folded support for C++ and Fortran into its Linux code base.

That combination of operating system and language technology, dubbed the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, is expected to garner International Standards Organization (ISO) approval around mid-2005, according to the FSG.

“We’re submitting LSB 2.0 for public review (to the open-source community) and when that comes back, we’ll submit it for ISO certification so it will be an international standard,” Scott McNeil, executive director of the FSG, told internetnews.com.

The open-source review should be completed late this year. LSB 2.0 will then take about six months to wend its way through the ISO process.

The ISO is a non-governmental, international standards body based in Geneva that builds consensus with members in 148 countries to decide on a common framework for any new system. National-level standards bodies, like the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), participate and work with ISO to create standards. Companies strive for ISO certification to show they maintain the highest quality standards in their organization.

ISO approval would give Linux an official imprimatur not currently enjoyed by the more pervasive Windows operating system (define). “Government and large corporations often require ISO certification of their products,” said McNeil. “This would make Linux a much safer bet.”

ISO would also formalize what’s rapidly becoming a de facto standard within the open-source world. All the major commercial Linux vendors, McNeil said, support the current LSB, release 1.3. That list includes Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, and TurboLinux, among others.

via:
January 27, 2004
Linux Aims For ISO Status
By Alexander Wolfe