Will I lose my dignity? Will you still care?

Thank you very much to everyone who has helped thus far, I still need almost 360USD – Almost there, but not quite – I have to turn in the money tomorrow, so help is *greatly* appreciated.

It was pointed out to me by someone that it was hard to donate as well because of the lack of a clicky button and perhaps that would help… so… I am going to attempt to add a button to this post… Hopefully this works, I am not sure how wordpress handles html code in a post, so lets see how it goes…

Hopefully it helps, really do appreciate any help guys and gals from the internet!

Edited: Thank you for the donation! Down to needing 320, so almost there!

So, it has been a long time since I last blogged – seems to happen a lot actually – I just don’t find anything interesting enough to talk about, sorry about that! On the Gentoo side, not a whole lot going on there for me, mainly due to the Personal side, which follows…

I am currently in the process of moving, in with a friends grandparents, for a little while at least, so I am packing up all my stuff, I seem to have accrued quite a bit while living here for the past almost 3 years, and I am still not sure what I am going to do with some things, for example I have wanted a new computer desk for a while as the current one I have is extremely bulky and huge, and no easy way to move it around as its in about 7 different (large) pieces. I have all the computers, which isn’t an issue, and most importantly is the car that is still not running, figuring out how to get it over to the new place, or more specifically – a mechanic who can actually look at it. I have had a couple people look at it – but the biggest issue has always been, whenever someone takes a look at it, it starts right up as soon as I turn the key. Then after the person is no longer around, it won’t start anymore. Personally, I think it is something in the electronics, but I am a computer guy, not a car guy.
As always, there are some other things and more to it, but at present I don’t want to talk about them.

Saw this in my feeds, and found it interesting as well. Are Kids Copying Their Parents When They Lie?

Although we think of truthfulness as a young child’s paramount virtue, it turns out that lying is the more advanced skill. A child who is going to lie must recognize the truth, intellectually conceive of an alternate reality, and be able to convincingly sell that new reality to someone else. Therefore, lying demands both advanced cognitive development and social skills that honesty simply doesn’t require. “It’s a developmental milestone,” Talwar has concluded

So I was going through some of my backups, because I accidentally blew away my Linux partition on my desktop when attempting to do something silly, and I came across an old AIM screenname that I used to use, and hadn’t for a while… So since I was bored and waiting for things to install, I started going through my buddy list reading the various names and remembering the people behind them… and I noticed that AIM has a Member Since: line… Here is mine:

Member Since: 1/7/1998 5:24:26 AM

Funtoo by Daniel Robbins: A Gentoo Developer’s Reply…

I received a pretty remarkable comment from a Gentoo developer that I thought I’d share. It’s amazing on so many levels. Here it is:

Daniel,

Please DO give up on Gentoo. Gentoo has grown beyond the ability for one man to manage, as your proposal seems to indicate you want ultimate authority. Many developers spoke against your return and few in favor of it, particularly in light of your stringent conditions.

Gentoo was established 1999, not to be confused with the previous Enoch Linux and the number of developers you managed before leaving in 2004 was around 100. Number of developers currently is around 300. Please dont assume that you can come back and things will be your way or the highway or that you can just nestle back into your previous position.

Your offer to help did not spawn the momentum for change that many see now; your offer was in fact AFTER developers began work to rectify the situation. This started when developers spoke up on our internal developer only list and work began there.

We have quite a number of developers who have been Gentoo developers longer than even you were, please allow those folks to continue to run the distribution. Like it or not, Gentoo keeps running and moving forward without your vision or interference. We’ve gotten by just fine for the past 4 years without you, we’ll be just fine. kthxbuhbye.

Posted by Daniel Robbins

So, going on 2 assumtions here 1) that this was an actual developer that sent this and 2) that it actually was sent and isn’t made up (not that I disbelieve Daniel… just can’t believe there is someone out there with that much idiocy…)

Could the asshat please stand up? And then exit stage left? Thank you, goodbye.

P.S. I don’t actually expect it to happen… as the note was obviously sent to Daniel in private, I expect said developer to not have the balls to actually take credit for it.

UPDATE: Just so its clear (this is Gentoo land after all) – I do not support the stance taken by the developer that sent the message to Daniel. Just wanted to be sure that was out there… what with all the mis-quoting and so forth that goes on. (Also, I supported Daniel coming back in the interim, unlike others, I don’t moan about my freedoms being taken away or that I will be “ruled” over by some king or whatever asshattery nutjob paranoid idiotic statements people want to make about it)