Valefor

I’m getting disappointed reading the current news coming out of the OLPC camp. The reason I supported the project (and forked over my $400) was for two reasons. 1) I agree with education being the answer to most of the world’s problems and 2) I support open software. This project seemed to endorse both. I [...]

So I’m in the process of geeking out my olpc and ran into a couple of annoying things. First I couldn’t get epiphany to install cause of some weird redhat-artwork and redhat-logos conflict. Google searching didn’t bring up anything that helped but I eventually found the answer. the “fedora-logos” packages provides a good version of [...]

My OLPC was ordered on Nov 12th and was shipped out yesterday! The bad news is that it’s scheduled for delivery on Friday the 21st. I leave for my parent’s house Thurday night the 20th. I won’t be back until Sunday the 23rd at night! Oh well…. it will be sitting at my apartment waiting [...]

In college when using linux I did not care about stability at all. I cared about baking up data of course since I was working on school projects, but due to having school labs with linux, a work computer with linux and multiple computers of my own I could care less about distro switching and [...]

This is disgusting. I hate when the market can’t function without the richer party pulling crap like this and turning the tables. Why the Nigerian government would rather put a non-current OS on the laptops that their students will receive is beyond me. Students will learn a lot more on computers that allow them to [...]

So i got my blog added to the foresight planet!
Just for a quick introduction: My name is Christopher Giroir and I’m a programmer at Berklee College of Music in Boston MA. I mainly do web programming (Mostly in tcl and php) and we do use lots of open source technologies which is cool. My other [...]

First of all here are some pics of our apartment in Brookline!
http://gallery.valefor.com/v/life/apartment_001/
Also I wanted to touch on Blender for a second. The program is absolutely amazing. Even so, people keep complaining about the interface. Luckily in 2.5 they are rewriting the main window API so that custom key mappings and other such features will be [...]

The Debian/Firefox issue is pissing me off. The stance of both companies is normal but the comments made by users. NO ONE understands the issue. They just yell at each other for one side or the other with mis-information, thereby spreading it. One person even mentioned (as a comment to a mozilla blog) Debian’s iceweasel [...]

Finally we have a GOOD mpd music client! Check this out! This is a mpd
frontend allowing me to use MPD, which I love.
I use quod libet for tagging my files now. The tagging library is
really nice and cool to use. It can do tagging from file names and
file names from tags etc. Great stuff. [...]