E-Dribble

Please note that her post is sitting in the spam bin.

It makes you want to give her money to get to the top of the search engines, doesn’t it?

Here’s their article in full (Hey, I figure someone should get the search results):

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Well, it’s almost that time again.  Actually it would have already been that time, but Fedora devs would no sooner push a bus full of nuns over a cliff than they would stick to a release schedule.

That’s right folks, some day in the very near future, Fedora 11 will officially be released and I can begin flagellating myself by trying another version of Fedora. I’ve saved my old work PC in the corner for just this reason.  I can’t explain it to you any better than this: I miss it like a battered woman misses her abuser.

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Most of the regulars know my stance on what I consider is the crippling addiction of open source software to fork.  The nerds just can’t seem to help themselves.

Well, as I stated in the previous post, it’s definitely not just the OS developers that find this to be a powerful attribute of FOSS.  Count the DB devs in, too! After Oracle’s purchase of Sun, shit hit the fan in regards to MySQL and offshoots appeared overnight.  If you think it’s because of Oracle, you would be wrong.  Listening to the lead developers that are jumping ship to develop their own version, they were unhappy even when Sun was in the captain’s chair.  This was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

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Here’s the scenario:

An obiviously mentally unstable dude starts freaking out and destroying his house.  The cops are called but before they can get there, he grabs a few bottles of pills and runs of into the night, obviously intending to do himself in.

The S.O. arrives and someone having a stroke of genius suggests that they track the man via his cell phone.

Only problem?  He’s a little behind on his bill.  No problem, right?  The sheriff calls Verizon to activate the phone just long enough to find and save this troubled man’s life.

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It’s the weekend that we Americans observe Memorial or Decoration day.  If you were ever in the service of your country, it’s a time to think about those that served and didn’t see their dd-214.  If you’re the average American however, you celebrate by taking an extra day off work, walking around shirtless drinking beer and stuffing your fat fucking face with hot dogs. At least, that’s what I’m led to believe.

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Some of you might remember me telling you about a bunch of Christians that decided to make money on their fellow bretheren’s beliefs that God would come down, smite the sinners and scoop up the believers, taking them up to Heaven to hang out and play volleyball.

Well, an athiest started a site concerning the same topic.  Only difference was he did it as a joke but people started actually purchasing his services, so he began to take this business more seriously. Where he used to just sell t-shirts having fun at Christians’ expense,  now his promise to you is that in the event that the rapture does occur, he and his band of athiests will hand deliver your letters to the people that you choose.

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DJ Danger Mouse is one of those guys that everyone knows but don’t know they know.  He’s produced albums for The Gorillaz, Beck, he’s half of the Gnarls Barkley project and he’s been tapped by a bunch of musicians for a dose of hipness.  He’s like The Timbaland of non-shitty music.

A couple years ago, he got his ass into a sling by releasing a mashup called the Gray album, which took The Beatles’ White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album and stuck them in a blender.  EMI wasn’t very impressed and sued the shit out of him.  Since then, he’s popped up in the news ticker for continuing to piss off entities protected under the RIAA’s umbrella.

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There was a time that I viewed open source the same way as many others.  It was better software because it hid nothing and if you provided something to the community, you would be visited by fairies in your sleep that would repay your kindness in kisses and rubies.

I now understand that the fairies kick you in the teeth while you’re down, take your offering and leave.

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I got a notice this morning that Linux.com had been completely revamped(and it has).  Now under the control of the linux foundation, they’ve removed the focus of being a half-assed news site and concentrated on being a half-assed news site with a half-assed community feel.

I logged in and looked around.  They’re method of trying to keep people active is by awarding karma in the form of guru or geek points.  The biggest gurus at the end of the year get laptops with linux on them.  (I guess the elephant in the room is that they’re all going to wipe linux off of them once in their possession so they can install something with working wireless).

So, that’s the business model.  You’ll stay at linux.com as opposed to the 4 billion other sites because of a site ranking system that makes you feel special and you might get a laptop out of the deal.

I checked the forums and of the 27 categories, there was not a single one that could either be considered to have a community feel or pertaining to site suggestions, problems or comments.  There was a category specifically for kernel development(because it’s such a hot topic, it would overflow a parent category) but there wasn’t one to say hi, introduce yourself or post your latest exploits with vi.  As is the case with 95% of the linux communities out there, they’re not a community.  They’re  a support forum.

Because, you know… we didn’t have enough linux support forums.

If you use Firefox as your browser, then chances are great that you use a product maintained by Wladamir Palant.  He develops the Adblock Plus addon, which allows you to browse the internet without offers to punch a Monkey, match the lips with the star or having to view whole movie trailers through a flash applet while trying to read an article on a news site.

Well, it seems they got to Wladamir.  You see, the developer of the addon that blocks ads for me would like to integrate a new feature into ABP that would allow site owners to hit you with a pop-up asking you to change your mind about their ads.

My response concerning how cool I thought it to be is buried in that page, but I can summarize quite neatly. I need an ad blocker.  Not an advertisement mediator.

Fork coming in 3…… 2…… 1…….