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	<title>ex tempore</title>
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	<description>saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit (Cicero)</description>
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		<title>on AIG, greed, the finantial mess or why conary matters</title>
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The world, as we get used to know it, is changing fast, and we got ourselves into the middle of a crisis, a global one, that some dare to compare to the &#8216;great depression&#8217;. In short, hard times. Some things didn&#8217;t change, or didn&#8217;t changed (yet) enough, and one thing that didn&#8217;t change is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2009/07/30/on-aig-greed-the-finantial-mess-or-why-conary-matters/</link>
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		<title>A must read&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How David Beats Goliath When underdogs break the rules. in the New Yorker
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2009/05/09/a-must-read/</link>
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		<title>When dreams start to come true&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[




You can see the rest  here



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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2008/05/28/when-dreams-start-to-come-true/</link>
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		<title>i guess this makes me an rMake addict &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ [am@rMake101 ~]$ history&#124;awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'&#124;sort -rn&#124;head
428 rmake
82 cd
51 screen
51 cvc
49 yes
48 emacs
45 vi
38 ssh
30 ls
30 (cd

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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2008/04/11/i-guess-this-makes-me-an-rmake-addict/</link>
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		<title>America, America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I &#8216;m in the US, the next two weeks. This week i&#8217;ll participate in the Linux Foundation&#8217;s Collaboration Summit, at Austin, Texas, and next one, i&#8217;ll be in North Carolina, where conary, rmake and&#8230; Foresight was born. While in the LF Collaboration Summit i&#8217;ll be in the Desktop Architects Meeting &#8211; talking a bit about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2008/04/07/america-america/</link>
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		<title>once upon a time&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2008/03/17/once-upon-a-time/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Why Foresight?&#8217; &#8211; an attempt to an answer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My  &#8216;lightning&#8217; talk, at this year&#8217;s FOSDEM, about the concepts behind, and around, Foresight Linux is already available online here. Hope you enjoy and find it informative   
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2008/03/04/why-foresight-an-attempt-to-an-answer/</link>
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		<title>a review about a reviewer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone decided to post a review about Foresight Linux 1.4.2. Even managed to get it on Linux Today&#8217;s frontpage. So far, so good. The review isn&#8217;t specially fond about that particular Foresight release  and &#8211; yes &#8211; raises some valid points (which hopefully are, or will be very soon, solved in our current fl:2-devel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2008/03/03/a-review-about-a-reviewer/</link>
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		<title>i&#8217;m on twitter now&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[not that i&#8217;m sure about the usefulness of it, but, hey, trying it won&#8217;t hurt&#8230; 
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2008/02/06/im-on-twitter-now/</link>
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		<title>Nokia just bought Trolltech &#8211; the days after tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The news are out. Now let&#8217;s just hope that in the future we get better interoperability between the Qt ecosystem and the GNOME one. As a GNOME packager i just want to have the same kind/extent of integration of Qt (and in some extent KDE) applications in GNOME as i have of Qt in Windows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2008/01/28/nokia-just-bought-trolltech-the-days-after-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>oh well&#8230; they do great hardware still&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sad, really sad. Utterly dumb, too. &#8216;An Open Letter to the OpenDS Community and to Sun Microsystems&#8216;
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/11/30/oh-well-they-do-great-hardware-still/</link>
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		<title>gnome (foundation) weather report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just come across this entry, i hit via the Planet Gnome feeds. As a Gnome user, and packager, i come ashamed of it. Murray Cumming may have had all the reasons of the world to be mad with  Jeff Waugh, but he lost them all,  by writing what he wrote, the way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/11/26/gnome-foundation-weather-report/</link>
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		<title>Red Bull Air Race: Porto 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MKJ, et al. &#8211; Enjoy!. 
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/08/31/red-bull-air-race-porto-2007/</link>
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		<title>here we go again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really sad that SUN Microsystems, who produces such great hardware is systematically unable to grab to its own ranks someone as gifted to manage and oversight the software side as Andy  Bechtolsheim is in their hardware side.  Some time ago, in the beginning of April, i wrote here that if Sun wanted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/07/22/here-we-go-again/</link>
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		<title>a teaser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(click for full image) 
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/06/25/a-teaser/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Mark my words, or something.&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marc Fleury, of JBoss fame, who is &#8211; he says &#8211; &#8216;retired&#8217;, he&#8217;s enjoying  the millions he packed from the JBoss venture. When not playing on a PS3, he writes some fairly interesting stuff. Like the post bellow, written yesterday. 
 When the GPL makes complete sense
Before I forget all about this software world, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/06/14/mark-my-words-or-something/</link>
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		<title>having trouble updating Foresight Linux?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under some rare circunstances, on your Foresight Linux instalation, the Foresight System Manager (rAA) update process may not work correctly, claiming it is trying to update the same trove (kernel) twice. In the same way running sudo conary updateall from  a command line may also fail. There is a simple workaround, already pointed by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/05/07/having-trouble-updating-foresight-linux/</link>
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		<title>Earth to SUN &#8211; where are java6u1 official binaries?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like SUN hardware, i even sympathize with their CEO efforts, but saying something good about the software  side, is usually hard, very hard. Let&#8217;s look at Java &#8211; on paper SUN freed Java, and Java&#8217;s JRE/JDK distribution. So, on paper all is good. Of course Java6u1 is out for weeks but here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/05/06/earth-to-sun-where-are-java6u1-official-binaries/</link>
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		<title>OLPC, more than a marketing gymnick ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On paper, the OLPC project is lovely &#8211; a true posterchild of the current state of opensource and its overall goals. It would show the triumph of openness, and open standards, and would  provide a better world. Then &#8211; here we go to the &#8216;details&#8217;. According to a post from Christopher Blizzard, on his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/05/03/olpc-more-than-a-marketing-gymnick/</link>
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		<title>why ? because it scales!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past i ranted a bit or two about Sun Microsystems. Today i feel the need to do it again. Make no mistake  &#8211; I like them, i have only Sun servers and storage, the other side of  a glass wall just behind me, but fact is that the last news aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/04/03/why-because-it-scales/</link>
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		<title>new kernel in fl:1-devel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a new kernel &#8211; 2.6.20.3, in the foresight linux&#8217;s fl:1-devel repository, together with updated drivers. 
If you feel confortable with Foresight, you are fluent with  conary, and you are brave and willing to help make Foresight even better and stabler than what it already is, please consider to test drive it a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/03/19/new-kernel-in-fl1-devel/</link>
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		<title>HP invents&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; even in spelling.




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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/01/16/hp-invents/</link>
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		<title>as good as it gets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago in #conary&#8230;
(19:12:40) doniphon: [19:11:29] [175] metacity:source - Failed while building: Error loading recipe metacity:source=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//gnome.rpath.org@fl:devel//
reloaded.rpath.org@fl-alpha2:gnome/2.16.3-3[~builddocs,desktop is: x86_64(~3dnow,~3dnowext,~nx)]: Could not locate driver for backend 'sqlite' args: (('/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/conary/_sqlite3.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsUnicode', 'sqlite'),) < < dugan, mkj - any idea about what can be causing this ? (rMake on rpl:1 system rMooking rpl:devel stuff)
(19:15:04) smithj: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2007/01/10/as-good-as-it-gets/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/12/23/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year-for-all/</link>
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		<title>Linus got it right!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2006-12-14 16:52:15 GMT (1 hour and 28 minutes ago)
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> But I would ask that they honour the licence on the code I release, and
> perhaps more importantly on the code [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/12/14/linus-got-it-right/</link>
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		<title>well, hell is freezing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The big news of the day isn &#8216;t that Sun is freeing java under  GPL, the big news is that they are going to to do the same with&#8230; Opensolaris. That is, obviously, the right thing to do. Not only Linux will benefit from some of the cool stuff Solaris has (in one word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/11/13/well-hell-is-freezing/</link>
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		<title>xenified splunk appliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Free Splunk appliance has a new version, that can now be used as a ready to roll xen domU. Other improvements  include the  inclusion of rAA, which allows an easy, and web based, way  of managing the appliance. The rest, &#8230; well the rest is the splunk power and  the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/11/01/xenified-splunk-appliance/</link>
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		<title>ones vs the others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
first it was BMW.


After come AUDI,


Then Subaru,


and finally Bentley&#8230;

(Found originally here)

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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/10/27/ones-vs-the-others/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Bull!&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a killer analysis of the latest Oracle linux move from someone who crafted Oracle&#8217;s original linux strategy. And before you think that Dave Dargo is a Red Hat fanboy i should remind you that Ingres is betting a good chunk of it&#8217;s future on&#8230; yes, a rpath&#8217;s conary based database appliance.
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/10/26/bull/</link>
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		<title>regarding a nvidia graphics driver exploit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today it become public  that there  is a security  hole, and an exploit to it, in some versions of the (closed source) nvidia graphics driver. Users of Foresight Linux, with an up to date system are **not** affected, since this is an issue that is fixed (according to  nvidia) in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/10/17/regarding-a-nvidia-graphics-driver-exploit/</link>
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		<title>so you want more&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;  and you&#8217;re already running Foresight Linux 0.9.8.2, you have an Nvidia card, you saw the AIGLX bit in the announcement and&#8230; Well, i have news for you  
Just do&#8230;
sudo conary update beryl-core=@fl:1-devel[bootstrap]
sudo conary update beryl=@fl:1-devel
and  after that  start beryl by calling beryl-manager from the comand line.  This will work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/10/04/so-you-want-more/</link>
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		<title>Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8.2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following our 0.9.8 release we&#8217;re proud to announce that Foresight Linux 0.9.8.2 is out. Release highlights are the usual bug fixes and package updates, including the latest stable gnome (2.16.1) package set and an the latest Google Earth release, a revamped  Xorg  subsystem and a new default kernel (2.16.18). Also of note is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/10/04/announcing-foresight-linux-0982/</link>
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		<title>no more excuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago the major complaint about conary wasn&#8217;t  the feature set, the inherent power, the fact of being different of everything else or simply the things that it would allow one to do as the most powerfull package manager  around. The major complaint was simply that the available documentation wasn &#8216;t enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/09/19/no-more-excuses/</link>
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		<title>zero dot nine dot eight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foresight Linux 0.9.8 is out and is our biggest and greatest release ever. But a linux distribution, no mater how good or how sophisticated it is, is of no good without a strong community, both of users and developers. That will be Foresight&#8217;s next step &#8211; develop and establish the meta structure that will allow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/09/13/zero-dot-nine-dot-eight/</link>
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		<title>status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beeing quiet here, but in the meantime got lots, and lots  of stuff done in fl:1-devel, the next iteration of Foresight Linux (you can follow the action live here), . Regarding Linux,  NVIDIA released silently today a new *nix driver iteration  for  Xorg. This new driver  is already packaged in rBo, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/24/status/</link>
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		<title>xen and vmware, the linux kernel &#8211; the press, the politics, and the facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we can read a  VMware PR stunt, dated August 7, signed by someone posed as a Infoworld editor. Meanwhile, we can read a longish thread, started August 3, in the xen-devel mailing list where, guess what, people from VMware actively intervene, where real progress is beeing made, and  consensus  are  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/09/xen-and-vmware-the-linux-kernel-the-press-the-politics-and-the-facts/</link>
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		<title>assorted  goodies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[back from a (too short) one week vacation i commited today updated versions of splunk, google-earth and liferea to rBuilder. liferea is on the  default  foresight:devel branch, google-earth can be get by issuing a &#8217;sudo conary update google-earth=reboot.rpath.org@rpl:devel&#8217; and splunk by doing &#8217;sudo conary update splunk=splunk.rpath.org@rpl:devel&#8217;. If you are already using splunk be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/07/31/assorted-goodies/</link>
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		<title>the first month&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/07/21/the-first-month/</link>
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		<title>a bee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
A bee flies under some blossoms while collecting pollen from a butterfly bush in Wilmington, Delaware, July 19, 2006. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer (UNITED STATES)
Oh, by the way&#8230; a working (at least together with a Nvidia card) Xgl is already cooked in fl:devel on the foresight repo at rBuilder.  
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/07/21/a-bee/</link>
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		<title>free speech &#8211; the two sides of the coin ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[this one, extreme (in Netherlands), and this one, also as extreme, in India. Are we really confined to these two &#8216;lectures&#8217; of the world, without any middle ground?&#8230;
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		<link>http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/07/17/free-speech-the-two-sides-of-the-coin/</link>
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