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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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Open Source
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- Wahooo, I have Gentoo! :)

  Although I could not realize my plan to install Gentoo during the weekend
  (because I had to recover my server from a rootkit, but that's another, much
  more painful, story), I managed it by now. :)

- A decade of PHP

  The language we all love more and more over the years turns 10. Following
  the example of Zak I want to thank all those brave guys and girls behind
  PHP. I've neither been with PHP since it's birth, nor since it's so early
  ours, but I've enjoyed its greatnesses (and sometimes hated its bugs) for
  more than a half of its life.

- WTF: What argument to prohibit GPL??

  That's really something that makes me more than angry. If someone really has
  a problem with open source (maybe he wants to sell his software and feels
  threatened by high quality open source products), I accept that he tries to
  prohibit that. But WTF is that for an argument, that the GPL violates the
  "Clayton Antitrust Act" (US law) in dictating fixed prices for software?

- I love WiFi!

  I really love it: I'm currently sitting around in a car repair shop and have
  to wait for about 2 hours for my car to be repaired. Dead time you think?
  Not really, since a T-Online-Hostspot is available. :) I wish there would be
  WiFi all around the world... And maybe even a bit cheaper! ;)

- Charge for Linuxtag entrance

  The Linuxtag e.V. recently announced that for this years Linuxtag a charge
  will be have to paid for entrance. One day will cost 15,- €, 2 days
  25,- € and all 3 days 35,- €. Members of the open source
  community should be granted free entrance, in the way, that the exhibiting
  projects will receive a certain amount of free tickets. The organizers of
  Linuxtag explain their decision for an entrance charge inside an open letter
  (German) to the open source community.

- Moving to Dortmund

  Over the last weekend, I completly refurbished my ne appartment in Dortmund
  and on upcoming Saturday I will move there. I'm pretty much looking forward
  to that. Because of the bunch of preperations to do, I will not have that
  much time for open source stuff until April 8th.

- Today it was 1111111111

  Today the Unix time reached a historical value: 1111111111, which is exactly
  1:58:31. A nice one, I guess.

- Call for protest: Against software patents -2-

  I recently updated my anti software patents demo page (see here) in respect
  to the newest incidents.

- Going to Quebec

  I recently received the acception for my proposal for the PHP Conference
  Quebec 2005. I will give a double session (some kind of workshop) on PEAR
  and how to use it. I'm very sold to be part of that conference, since I've
  never been to Kanada before. :)

- Happy new year!

  To all you PHP lovers and all you other geeks out there! :)