http://tsunam.org Development with Gentoo, and personal experiences Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:20:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All, Google Summer of Code applications are due tomorrow, Monday April 7th. If you've not submitted yet its your last chance. Get your idea's in and get paid to work on open source projects for the summer. There are a lot of projects out there so get submitting. Google Summer of Code http://tsunam.org/2008/04/06/applications-due-tomorrow/ As much as I actually like diego, he does tend to travel a very hard line when viewing things outside of the area that he can control. Specifically he talked about the lack of a news item for the extension of the Google Summer of Code. Instead of taking the ... http://tsunam.org/2008/04/03/professional-expectations-from-non-professionals/ Had a nice relaxing vacation away from computers for a few days. It was a much needed break and I've been revitalized a good bit. For those interested, this is what I was surrounded by for four days. This is in essence a second home to me, a place where everything ... http://tsunam.org/2008/03/31/back-4/ Have a good rest of the week to everyone who'll be working. I'll be flying up to Washington state to visit my grandfather who's turning 90 this weekend. It'll be good to get away to a place where the quick internet is 33.6kbps and as such, you won't find me ... http://tsunam.org/2008/03/26/mini-vacation/ Lets see if I can't start a little trend with the Gentoo Developers. I'm going to post my setup for development and want to see if others will follow suit. Figure it might be interesting for people to see what others are using as their work environments. Without further ado: As you can ... http://tsunam.org/2008/03/23/setups/ Well as most have probably noticed already, Gentoo has been accepted to participate as a Summer of Code Mentoring organization again. I'm overjoyed that we've been accepted again and would like to thank alec (antarus) for putting in the application. As well a thank you for Google considering us worthy ... http://tsunam.org/2008/03/18/gentoo-soc/ You have people who want to do everything as efficient as possible in the confines of what anyone defines efficient (which is never the same thing). For me personally that's getting the results quickly without having to really think about or work for a few extra minutes at how to ... http://tsunam.org/2008/03/06/efficacy/ I'll admit I've quite enjoyed hulu for watching tv series when I want to. It doesn't cover everything I want to watch but its a start. Some of the things I want to watch are provided by Discovery, and of course their web based video player is only for windows and ... http://tsunam.org/2008/03/02/is-universal-appeal-too-much-to-ask-for/ That season is upon us again, students getting excited about writing code for the summer. Gentoo is planning to apply once again to be a mentoring organization and this is where we need your help. Developers, we need you to figure out if you have the time to guide a ... http://tsunam.org/2008/02/26/google-summer-of-code-2008/ Gentoo has once again fallen into a rip van winkle state. For a period everyone was motivated and driven about Gentoo both in the developer and user communities. A few people tried to harness that and improve things. Donnie has probably had some of the most success with the revivial ... http://tsunam.org/2008/02/22/activity/