Rubenerd

Ruben… the FreeBSD guy? Yes!

Mark at Planet Fedora: Everything is better with bacon:

Just thought I would take a moment to remind Fedora folks that even people outside of our project are rooting for us. We are going through growing pains, and quite possibly an identity crisis. This is normal, things improve. Take a breather folks; relax a bit (I promise you – that will really help things quite a bit.)

We have the Four Pillars to help here, as well as the beautiful simplicity of *Be Excellent* to each other. Folks in other parts of the FOSS universe could not help but overhear some of the debates currently happening. We do so much for Linux/FOSS in general- that our health is very important. Most can see this.

People like me

I'm still at heart a FreeBSD and Mac user, but when I deploy Linux I deploy Fedora, just as I did Red Hat Linux back in the day. Its well maintained, has an enthusiastic developer and support community, RPMs for a ridiculous amount of software are readily available, and the releases are reliably scheduled and polished.

Fedora's improvements have a trickle down effect and benefit us all. For example, on my FreeBSD machines I run much of the same software, plus I benefit from the push towards open drivers and upstream improvements to desktop environment usability and software security patches.

I’ve been following several of the issues in the Fedora community on their mailing lists, not least the skirmish regarding the UI future of Gnome 3 which I've commented on. Ultimately I hope these issues are resolved and everyone grows stronger from the shared experience. One of the strengths of the free and open source software movement is democracy.

I didn't even poke fun at the fact that rooting in Australia means something else entirely.

This post originally appeared on the Annexe, in a post series pointlessly documenting every train I took.

M25 from Bardwell Park to Town Hall

There's a lot of guff going on about Java right now, so I'm going to try my hand at clearing the air. Obviously my grammar has already taken a beating judging from the tersely efficient but horribly structured heading.

Java is dying

Dying in this case is a relative term, but despite the disappointing failure of the write once, run everywhere model that was supposed to solve OS dependencies on the desktop, Java is very much alive and well. Anyone who's been in any corporate, large enterprise environment knows that Java is thoroughly entrenched and isn't going anywhere any time soon. Like a boss. Google also uses it for tons of stuff, to afford myself the use of some sophisticated computer science terminology.

Oh yeah and Minecraft. Addictive games like that push my buttons and stroke my OCD tendencies WAY too easily, so I'm simply refraining from playing it. Call it an act of self preservation.

Apple killed JavaME on phones

There are two arguments about Apple killing Java. The older one is that Apple killed JavaME by not bundling it with the iPhone. I'd argue JavaME was functionally dead long before Apple came into the picture. I'd also say that to be fair, Android, webOS and Windows Mobile Phone Enterprise Corporate Home Premium Edition Service Pack 7 have done their bit to nip JavaME in the bud too. Granted Android [kinda] runs a Java VM in the form of Dalvik, but its legal standing is dubious at best, and it's unrelated to JavaME.

I remember writing a to-do list for my Motorola RAZR back in the day. It was easy enough to understand if a LittleCumbersomeAndVerbose, but it ran so horribly slowly and took so long to load I gave up on it.

To break up this post, here are the girls from some sort of scientific railgun show, with a phone, a laptop and a cup of coffee. Apt, right?

Apple killed Java on the desktop

The other argument is Apple killed Java on the desktop by removing it from Mac OS X. They didn't kill Java, they merely deprecated their internally developed version and passed responsibility back to Oracle and the open source community to provide it. They're in the process of doing so.

For those who don't remember, Apple developed a custom version of Java starting with Mac OS X 10.0 as a way to more thoroughly integrate Java apps into the OS and to afford more visual consistency. If you recall, for a long time Java apps didn't really look like their host OSs at all (and in certain circumstances they still don't, at least not very well). The first Java I ever wrote was on my iBook in 2001, go figure.

Depending on who you talk to, Apple engineers were also forced to craft their own Java implementation given Sun's lack of interest in the platform. If that sounds familiar, this is just the apathy that Macromedia and Adobe displayed for the Mac with their Flash plugin that was so slow, unreliable and insecure that Apple was forced to write a container around it for Safari. Shipping an older version didn't help either, but hey!

Apple were small fish before and had to accept whatever they could from the high and mighty, now they are in a position to dictate terms… and Steve Jobs certainly holds grudges! As Adobe is realising now that Flash is not included by default in the MacBook Air, if Oracle wants Java on the Mac, it's up to them now to prove to Apple customers that they need it. It also puts native applications at an advantage, which is a convenient fact for Apple ;).

You know what’d be cool?

I'd actually be really interested in seeing a cross platform Java app store to prove to us that write once, run everywhere is not only viable, but preferable to vendor lock-in. They could sell Minecraft, and auto-update software like NetBeans and Makagiga. Oh yeah that reminds me, Makagiga is pretty cool. But that's for another post.

As I started this post by saying, Java is thoroughly entrenched in the enterprise. Whether or not Oracle has any interest in recapturing the consumer space where Java needs the most help is the ultimate question.

Photo by Ivanna Smile. He's represented Ron Burgundy… probably.

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

nowayoutofthemind:

-wearesleepinggiants:

My childhood. <3

Aw Sakura! 

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

nowayoutofthemind:

meowtardis:

fierybiscuits:

lookivegotablanket:

mydearholmes:

hilsonwashere:

gigaku:

moshpaint:

I FUCKING WANT A TOASTER THAT I CAN WRITE SHIT ON AND IT WILL PUT IT ON MY TOAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHERE CAN I GET ONEEEEEEEEE

 this is amazing

I WOULD DRAW SLASH FANART AND EAT SAID FANART EVERY MORNING LIKE FUEL.

I HAVE DECIDED I NEED THIS POINTLESS SHIT IN MY LIFE. GIMME GIMME.

“I WOULD DRAW SLASH FANART AND EAT SAID FANART EVERY MORNING LIKE FUEL.”

fdyfiusdyfkjsdhfkjsafd I COULD EAT NOEL/JULIAN SLASH YOU GUYS. I NEED THIS.

what.

/gets naked. 

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.

Awwwwwwwwww ^______^

Now that Ruben has his MacBook Pro back, he decided to try a new "theme" kinda thing.

While he thought Bakemonogatari was an interesting show, what he really did love were the graphics and character designs, and while Sengoku Nadeko wasn't his favourite spirit-possessed character, the colours in this background were too gorgeous to pass up. As a bonus, they match really well with Terminal.app's "Red Sands" theme which he'd never used before. They're all like the colours from Ubuntu… only classy!

As a matter of disclosure, Ruben uses Sabayon and Fedora as his Linux distros of choice, and only talks about himself in the Third Person occasionally. Like a boss.

This post originally appeared on the Annexe.