Archive for February 17th, 2007

The MySQL Mugshot Group

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Don’t know how many of you actually have heard of, or use, Mugshot, but I just started playing with it after a long hiatus, and decided that it’s pretty cool. Something the MySQL community will probably enjoy being part of (currently, to take full advantage, you want to be a Linux or Windows XP user).

By virtue of looking for the next new community hangouts, I figure we create a MySQL Mugshot Group. And before folk wonder what Mugshot’s all about, I suggest reading the feature list. Keep in mind that Mugshot is completely open source, and its a very live social experience, in this “notification era”. Its a whole lot of fun, and from what I can tell, the signups are now open to the public so what’s keeping you?

The site has i386 RPMS for Fedora Core 6, so I thought I’d rebuild them for x86_64 as well. Will probably get some PowerPC builds going next week. I’m surprised this hasn’t made it into Extras yet, it should be fairly clean-ish (haven’t looked at the packaging myself though).

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The way of the open source jedi master

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Here’s a thought on why you do things…. Do you do things because of believing in the principle, or do you do things to get recognized (by people)? The latter is driven by ego, and the former is the true way of the open source jedi master.

Take a look at Stallman. Some of us may not agree with him, but he’s clearly still in the game, fighting the good fight. Where’s ESR these days?

Anyways, useful bits I gathered from chit-chatting with Ditesh a moment ago. Makes one think.

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