Archive for November, 2004

Here we have the basics of the new design. Except adding some ids to the XHTML code, everything has been done without touching it. That's the power of CSS.

There are a lot of improvements to do, like avoiding overflow on the right, adjusting fonts, colors, add some graphics, but it's still better than the raw thing that used to be here until now.

I'm also working on the backend side, all in RDF. For now, it has some semantic flows, and I still haven't written all the XSLT stylesheets to transform it into XHTML, but that might come soon.

And if I find enough motivation, I'll publish some documentation about how all that has been made and works.

XP boots in an amount of time significantly lower. BeOS booted in a few seconds. What the hell is making Linux distros boot time so loooong ?

Read more in this thread.

As you may or may not know, the current trademark policy of the Mozilla Foundation makes it impossible for Debian to distribute the official logos and icons for Firefox. The package shouldn't even be called Firefox, reading this piece of blatant crap.

Anyways, as an individual, I took the right to provide these logos and icons, and create a package that will override the ones installed by the mozilla-firefox package.

The package is called mozilla-firefox-branding, is a pretty bad hack, and is available in my repository. Enjoy.

Update [2004-11-14 16:55:54+0900]: Updated to version 0.2, there was a broken thing in release 0.1.

Download, rip, burn, sample, create, distribute, spread the word.

Read the article on Wired.

The Firefox attitude

(...) but you have to aim big. Otherwise, why even try? It's time for open-source software--good open-source software--to be proud of itself, set its sights on the big leagues and get out there and try and get as much out of it as possible. You don't get there by aiming for 5 percent or 10 percent.

The Linux attitude

Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision.

So start small, and think about the details. (..)

(via Riku Voipio)

According to Microsoft, it is Debian GNU/Linux.

For now, this is a raw hand-written version of the web-site. It switched from mostly a combination of french and japanese to english, but some french and japanese might appear soonish, and from an XML-based xml-dtc powered kinda blog to an XHTML-based vim-powered ... thing, without even a CSS stylesheet. That will also change in the future, as soon as I'll settle myself on how to organize the whole stuff.

Keywords will be : XML, RDF, XHTML, CSS, Semantics, Debian, Life, the Universe and Everything.