Archive for August, 2006
Automatically watching for updates on web pages ?
Thursday, August 31st, 2006Once in a while, I come upon a web page that : Doesn’t offer an RSS/Atom feed. Doesn’t change very often. I would like to be warned when it’s updated. I would like to be automatically warned when such pages change. websec does this : Description: Web Secretary – Web page monitoring software A visual [...]
Who is using Debian’s and Ubuntu’s development versions ?
Monday, August 21st, 2006Scott J. Remnant claimed that it’s the development community that use Debian testing or unstable. This doesn’t match my personal experience (I know many people running Debian testing/unstable who aren’t interested in Debian development), however I needed a better way to check this than just “my personal experience”. So I tried to answer the following [...]
Ubuntu or Debian, which one has the newest software ?
Friday, August 11th, 2006It is a common belief that Ubuntu provides newer software than Debian. This is of course true when Ubuntu is compared to Debian stable. This is also true for specific software packages, like Gnome. But how does it compare in general ? At the time of the Dapper release, here is how Ubuntu Dapper and [...]
Good questions to ask yourself when working inside teams
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006Many people agree that teams are good : doing team maintenance of packages is often seen as A Good Thing inside Debian, and Ubuntu enforces it by switching to the everything is team-maintained philosophy. However, teams are subject to complex group dynamics, and raise interesting issues that you don’t encounter when working alone. It is [...]