DOOM :: Akkregator-crash && failing hardware

The last couple of days are not good.  First my “9″ key on my keyboard fails completely, and at the same time catching some droplets of water , which seems luckily to do little harm.

The biggest problem was waiting until the water dried sufficiently enough to allow me to type my password without any problems what so ever. But right now the “9″ is playing up and there is an ugly hole in my keyboard. I am seriously peefed off and dep9sressed about this all. Yes it’s only a frigging keyboard but the brokenness of it seriously hampers my typing. And ofcourse this keyboard was a gift from my parents. So I am not a happy bunny at them moment.

I mean seriously, a keyboard like this should last longer than just five months.  I am highly unimpressed by that.

To further all joy and greatness, akregator (KDE rss reader), just pulled a disappearing act on me, and wiped out all but two feeds. It just cost me about 2 hours to sort out all my feeds, which was a slight positive, and get everything back in working order. I clearly need to make sure that this not happens again by backing this up.

So, all in all, the last 2 days have rather failed to impress me :|

Article: About ‘Upstream’ and ‘Keeping it together’

The following article has just been brought to my attention, which all in all made quite an interesting read: The article is called “Dealing with upstream: how KDE and the distros manage to keep things together” and is written by Troy Unrau. Of course, I am quite happy see the following text about Slackware:

Only one distribution seems to be relatively immune to this process, that being Slackware. Slackware is one of the oldest distributions in existence, and may in fact be the longest running distro of all time. The reason that Slackware is successful, but never popular to the extent of other distros, is that it leaves customization alone. Wherever possible, they ship ‘virgin’ packages which can be recompiled using upstreams’ official source packages. This makes Slackware a good development platform as you can ensure that any problems you encounter are not due to distributions making changes to the source, but also makes it a less popular choice among users who prefer a more polished, integrated experience.

It’s nice to see some more mainstream media writing about Slackware in a good and positive light :)