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Read it (the whole thing please), and do the world some good: http://www.pcdf.org/corprule/failure.htm

I was building an Autopackage of XChat today when I noticed this strange message from ./configure:

…
checking argz.h usability… yes
checking argz.h presence… yes
checking for argz.h… yes
checking limits.h usability… yes
checking limits.h presence… yes
checking for limits.h… yes
…

Umm…shouldn’t you first check to see if the file is there, and then see if the header is useable?

Anyway, the user response to Autopackage 1.0 seems to have been really good so far…there have, of course, been the folks who just seem to “hate” Autopackage just because it is. My favorite quote:

I REALLY hope that Adobe won’t do that because autopackage is one of the worst things at all in the Linux world today.
[…]
autopackage undermines EVERY distro’s native package management and is MORE difficult to use than anything else because it will sooner or later break every system. It doesn’t integrate with anything, it doesn’t handle dependencies, it installs stuff into /usr which is strictly reserved for native packages instead of installing to /usr/local, it is very, very unfriendly to users and difficult to use and it requires users to install third-party stuff in order to even install the package which is absolutely not acceptable.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?7@507.EkAkegVXdwE.1@.3bb9df0b/0

/me sighs

EDIT :: Oh, if you do want to read the thread, then use BugMeNot.

But overall, it seems like most people love autopackage!

(Well, not daily)

CO-OPs are designed to be businesses by the people, for the people, without engaging in the communist-like practice of merging everything under the government’s umbrella.

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=146202&cid=12244890

What is wrong with that statement?
Please leave a comment!

Some students at MIT wrote a program called SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator and submitted the result WMSCI 2005. What’s amazing is that the paper was actually accepted! You can read the paper Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy or generate your own! Have fun.

Thanks slashdot: $2 at Taco Bell.

I’ve been busy with lots of stuff (thus the lack of updates) including our spanish play (which was Shakespeare (based on The Taming of the Shrew). I’ll possibly upload what we have when it’s done… (English, and maybe Spanish).

Slug is a awesome word:

• 5 a : a quantity of liquor drunk in one swallow b : a detached mass of fluid (as water vapor or oil) that causes impact (as in a circulating system)
• 6 a : a strip of metal thicker than a printer’s lead b : a line of type cast as one piece c : a usually temporary type line serving to instruct or identify
• 7 : the gravitational unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system to which a pound force can impart an acceleration of one foot per second per second and which is equal to the mass of an object weighing 32 pounds

English is such a great language (you can even split infinitives!).
Also, you don’t even have 84 verb conjugations per verb (if you know what language this is, please post it below–the formula is 14(tenses) * 6(conjugations-per-tense).