fragility

This one goes out in Portuguese.

H?? momentos atr??s, regressava eu do belo do caf??zinho quando ao passar pela esplanada do caf?? ao lado ou??o a conversa do costume:

“Quando ganhar o Euro Milh??es, fa??o e aconte??o…”

Eu sinceramente n??o entendo qual ?? a pancada deste pa??s com os totolotos, euro milh??es e afins. Toda a gente passa a vida a dizer a frase acima. Toda a gente passa a vida a sonhar com algo cujas possibilidades de acontecer s??o se calhar menores do que aquelas de apanharmos com um meteorito em cima (por acaso devia pesquisar sobre isso…se calhar s??o mesmo).

Eu n??o estou com isto a dizer que as pessoas n??o sejam impossibilitadas de sonhar. Eu tamb??m sonho, mas ao menos eu sonho com coisas plaus??veis, e n??o deixo que a minha vida fique em espera at?? que aconte??a uma coisa imposs??vel. Em Portugal, a maioria dos portugueses de classe m??dia/baixa contentam-se com um emprego med??ocre porque acham que um dia v??o ganhar o euro milh??es e a sua vida vai ser maravilhosa. S?? que isso nunca lhes acontece e levam-se o resto da vida com um emprego med??ocre, e uma vida med??ocre, a aturar o marido/mulher chateado/a porque n??o aproveitou uma boa oportunidade de carreira que ao in??cio podia n??o parecer muito prometedora mas que de futuro levaria a um bom sal??rio ou carreira, ou porque n??o aproveitou aquela excelente ideia de neg??cio que teve quando era novo, e ficam ?? espera de uma coisa que nunca vai acontecer.

Eu n??o vou ficar ?? espera. Posso n??o ser um exemplo no que toca a empenho e for??a de vontade (mas tou a melhorar), mas ao menos n??o tenciono ficar ?? espera de oportunidades imposs??veis.

E antes que algu??m me diga “ah mas se calhar tamb??m jogas”. N??o. Nunca gastei nem tenciono gastar um tost??o em qualquer jogo do g??nero. Prefiro gastar em algo como o WoW, ao menos divirto-me :-)

Stupid assholes ! That’s all i can say right now to all those talking sh*t about Ubuntu.

Everywhere i see blogposts, or reviews, or whatever (and even Ubuntu developers are noticing this) which talk about trouble upgrading to Edgy Eft or some other related Edgy Eft stuff. I mean…has everyone been deaf dumb and blind for the past six months ? Haven’t you bunch of assholes read that Edgy’s purpose was a bit different from Dapper’s one ? I won’t try to explain it all over again, you can read it for yourself on the annoucement:

And here's why. Edgy is all about cutting edge, perhaps bleeding edge,
brand new code and infrastructure. It will be the right time to bring in
some seriously interesting but definitely edgy new technologies which
lay the groundwork for the next wave of Ubuntu development.

And there’s more:

We can afford to take some risks with Dapper+1, because Dapper has turned
out so well. We have a great answer for people who need super-solid
and super-predictable results: Dapper is still fresh, will continue to work
on modern hardware for some time, and has plenty of legs in its support
cycle left to run.

I guess i won’t have to say much more, do i ? They have warned everyone they would be taking risks with this release, so expect problems.

Ok, so you might say “But this is Ubuntu ! It should have no problems at all ! It should work flawlessly.” No it shouldn’t. They might have a wealthy benefactor leading them but they don’t have unlimited resources, and they surely can’t afford to have all their releases as polished as Dapper Drake. A six month release cycle gives them the opportunity to experiment while still having a nice up to date release for those who demand stability.

They have said this before, they have warned everyone. And everyone has ignored them, and now every zealot is coming out to say “oooohhh…see…Ubuntu isn’t so good after all”.

We (Ubuntu fans) shouldn’t even care at all, but the truth is that these misleading reviews and criticism does nothing good for those new users who want to enter the Linux world, and does nothing good for the fame of open source software when compared to proprietary software. As long as stupid zealots keep doing this kind of stuff, proprietary software companies still have a weapon to fight and criticize open source. And this is a weapon we created. Think about that.

Looks like not everybody has heard about the new web technologies around here in Portugal, specially RSS feeds. The only (?) portuguese music related newspaper Blitz, which has now became a magazine, launched a new website together with it’s new magazine, but looks like they don’t know about RSS feeds. Why am i not surprised ?