Category Archives: Gentoo

On “How can someone miss a meeting?”

Posted on May 16, 2008 by ferdy

Since Diego is deleting my comments from his moderation queue, I’ll try to give my impression of his post here. But first I’ll state my opinion on the matter. I think the Council made a mistake (admittedly, not a big … Continue reading →

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Slacker Council

Posted on May 15, 2008 by ferdy

As per http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_19892c04f0e6cf4c24629f13718e45cb.xml there was a meeting council scheduled for 20:00 UTC today (that’s a bit more than half an hour ago). For some reason, only amne and dberkholz showed up. As per GLEP39‘s Specification: If any meeting has less … Continue reading →

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On cooperating and paludis vulnerability

Posted on May 3, 2008 by ferdy

A serious security issue in paludis was brought to my attention recently, and I feel I should make you all aware. Apparently someone, with root access to a machine, can gain root access by installing or editing paludis config files. … Continue reading →

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When you think you’ve seen everything…

Posted on April 28, 2008 by ferdy

…you get up, fire your mail client just to find: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64840 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168573 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161368 Please take the time to read those ‘Excerpts’, they are really enlightening. Politics is so much fun. Some facts: All of them work in Paludis Some of … Continue reading →

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Doing It Wrong

Posted on April 27, 2008 by ferdy

I hear this image got someone a Developer Relations complain. Way to go, Gentoo. Way to go. You are clearly doing it wrong. (For those that aren’t aware of this rather old issue: have fun). – ferdy

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From yoswink: 1st Technological days of Isla Cristina

Posted on April 13, 2008 by ferdy

I’m proxy-posting this to Gentoo Planet from yoswink: — During the last week, the people of Isla Cristina (a beautiful town in the Atlantic coast with probably the best beaches of all Spain) organized an event called ’1st Technological days … Continue reading →

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On tool boxes

Posted on January 15, 2008 by ferdy

Apparently, people are bashing Joshua Jackson (a.k.a. tsunam) for posting his opinion (which happens to be shared among lots of us). So just in case someone hasn’t read what he said yet, I’m going to link his posts here. Please, … Continue reading →

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Paludis meets Java, part III

Posted on November 29, 2007 by ferdy

Once we’ve converted native types we face the task of converting arbitrary classes and types. Another thing we’ll need is extract the C++ type of a Java object (jobject in JNI). For that task, we will follow the convention of … Continue reading →

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Paludis meets Java, part II

Posted on November 19, 2007 by ferdy

After showing how is the structure of a regular Paludis class using JNI, next thing is showing part of the magic behind paludis_java.hh. What’s there is functions to convert Java types into Paludis (and C++ native) types and viceversa (this … Continue reading →

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Paludis meets Java, part I

Posted on November 18, 2007 by ferdy

Some days ago, the Wearer of the shiny hat started tinkering with JNI bindings for Paludis. Even if we all think Java is perverse and should be avoided at all costs. Having used Java for the last four years and … Continue reading →

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