Comments for Craig Maloney

Comment on Open Metalcast puts full support behind new RIAA certified Creative Commons License by Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:57:55 +0000

Craig’s announcment
And this is crazy
But Here’s his number (1 April)
Or I’ll think maybe…

Comment on Just because you’re grinding the organ doesn’t mean I have to dance by Wolfger

Wolfger — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:28:31 +0000

Dance, monkey!

But seriously… “Unity changing to QT, Ubuntu moving to rolling releases, Mir taking over the role of X server”? Yes! Awesome! I need to try out the next release for myself now.

P.S. I thought everybody hated Unity, and now they’re upset that they’re getting something good to replace it?

Comment on The Ubuntu Community: Collaborator or Contributor by craig

craig — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:12:38 +0000

And that’s the distressing part; the idea of two communities. It’s as if we have to have two concepts for community, and the hope is they’ll play nice with each other.

Communities got Ubuntu the building blocks for the ~9 years of Ubuntu. I’m not so sure moving to a contributor-only arrangement is the best solution.

Comment on The Ubuntu Community: Collaborator or Contributor by Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:07:44 +0000

back to the subject of the blog post, I think you are about right. Community 2.0 consists of people building for the Ubuntu Platform. I am not sure if the expectations that these people come with include peer support and community governance, but they might do. What I hope can happen is that Community 2.0 doesn’t conflict with Community 1.0 and both can be installed in parallel.

Comment on The Ubuntu Community: Collaborator or Contributor by Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:25 +0000

yeah, you are right they have FUCKING GONE to http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ and you can point your sources.list at them https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/

Comment on The Ubuntu Community: Collaborator or Contributor by Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:50:52 +0000

My complaint with Ubunutu is that they’ve totally dropped support for older hardware. First, they have a fairly fast life cycle. Second, the new versions require video cards that my otherwise modern 32 bit Athlon simply can’t support, even if i had the money to upgrade it. And, the new graphics is pointless eye candy. And, the new UI makes it very difficult to do much of anything the way that i’m used to doing it. So what? You can just not upgrade, right? But what if you want to upgrade some application software? For example, what if you want to install Chrome? You can’t. The Ubuntu repositories are gone. They’re FUCKING GONE! So, if you didn’t happen to have some shared library that Chrome wants, you can’t install it. How should i have known that i should have installed everything in the repository before it’s end of life? You don’t do that, if you want a maximally secure system. If i wanted crappy security, i could install Windows. So now, i’m looking for a new distribution. I’ve been betrayed.

Comment on Leasing phones and the Twitter API by craig

craig — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:47:27 +0000

Well, we’ve come up with things people can use, but the flocking part is the tricky part of this equation. Identi.ca / Statusnet are places where people can flock, but there’s nobody on there outside of the freedom-loving crowd that keeps using it. Unfortunately the freedom-folks got so rabid that most of the folks I followed over there moved on to Twitter because hey, Twitter don’t care how free you are.

We have to the protocols to make this work, but we haven’t had the catalyst for change that we’ve needed. And because most people are OK with “leasing phones”, it’s bound to never change as long as folks can connect with whomever they want.

There are still people out there leasing rotary phones from the phone company to the tune of thousands of dollars. They just never got uncomfortable enough to check around for options.

Comment on Leasing phones and the Twitter API by Les Orchard

Les Orchard — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:42:23 +0000

I blogged last summer about my rageface over Twitter API decisions, pretty much in agreement from another angle (ie. outsourcing innovation for free until you’ve got enough):

http://blog.lmorchard.com/2012/07/12/half-formed-thoughts-about-twitter

The funny thing About G+, though, is they’ve never had a write-API and probably never will. So, you’re leasing the phone from them from the get-go. But, I guess that’s what you mean by “no preconceived notions of openness”

The main issue in my mind with all this stuff is that us open-warriors haven’t yet come up with a distributed social network that most people can actually use and flock to.

I suspect it’s still possible, and I tinker around with notions from time to time. Problem is, honestly most of my itches have been scratched by the existing options and there are other interesting things on which to work.

Comment on Leasing phones and the Twitter API by craig

craig — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:51:12 +0000

You can, but they’re not great. It’s better to have an app so you can take advantage of phone functionality like uploading photos and whatnot.

PII-class machines never had to deal with Javascript.

Comment on Leasing phones and the Twitter API by Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:29:02 +0000

Can you access Twitter, G+, Identi.ca via web browser on your phone? I mean, is their web broswer support that bad? Smart phones have Pentium II class CPUs. I recall owning a functioning Pentium II. It wasn’t that bad.