By RangerRick, on May 27th, 2004%
So I’ve been unemployed for a week, as of 3 hours ago. =)
In Fink news, I’ve been working on entirely repackaging PostgreSQL 7.3, and packaging PostgreSQL 7.4, so that they can coexist (and so that the bugs in the 7.3 packages are fixed).
Other than that, it’s been all business. My resume has gone through a number of revisions (and will probably see more). I’ve applied for a number of jobs (including one at RedHat, phear). I’ve applied for individual insurance. I’ve applied for unemployment benefits. It’s crazy how busy you are when you’re out of a job. =)
I’ve gotten a bunch of pledges for doing development on Fink/KDE full-time, although nothing anywhere near a living wage, I’m sorry to say. I don’t really see how on-demand development would make that any different; especially since there are still big infrastructure things that would have to happen in all of KDE before there’s any specific features that could be worked on. It would be great to be able to do it full-time, but it seems unless I get a big benefactor, it wouldn’t be enough. Feel free to prove . . . → Read More: Week 1
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By RangerRick, on May 25th, 2004%
I am now officially unemployed.
The company I so recently worked for has now shut it’s doors. We had an incredible product, but the money ran out and the VC wasn’t willing to continue funding. There’s various hypotheses why, but I don’t want to air the dirty laundry here. Suffice it to say this is by far the best group of people I’ve ever worked with — everyone there was simply stunningly talented, and fun to work with to boot.
If you know of any work in the Raleigh area (or telecommute), especially in the open-source and/or macintosh arena, drop me a line.
Oh, and my resume’s here. =)
[Update:]
So let me ask you a hypothetical question. If I were to do what Yoram Snir suggested in the comments, would you pledge? Because there’s nothing I’d love more than to be able to just work on Fink and KDE full time. Is it worth bothering some kind of pledge thing to gauge it? This would be a dream, but I don’t know if I could pull enough to live off of.
[Update:]
. . . → Read More: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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By RangerRick, on February 6th, 2004%
So at work we’re doing this sales thing where if you refer someone, you can win an iPod. If you know someone who might be interested in a network management appliance, please fill this out. You may win an iPod, whoever buys an OpticNerve will get an iPod, and I might get an iPod. Everyone wins! =)
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By RangerRick, on October 9th, 2003%
So mom sent me a halloween care package. A hand-made dracula cape, and fangs. And a big plush dracula to hang up. He’s currently residing above my cube at work, in a rather crucified pose. We’re gonna put a Oculan T-Shirt on him, I think. =)
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By RangerRick, on August 18th, 2003%
TechTV is coming to our office to film a spot on our company. I’m told I’ll be one of the interviewees… Wish me luck! [Update]OK, so apparently I was mistaken. They’re gonna be interviewing management. 🙂
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By RangerRick, on January 19th, 2003%
For the first time ever, I think, staging over to a new server worked just perfectly for me. I upgraded our mail server to a new system for work over the weekend, and it looks like everything worked the first time. We’re going from a single- to dual-cpu system, with a much nicer raid setup. Load has dropped dramatically, and response-time is much nicer. Other than when I’m running backups, load is staying around 10% (well, this is Sunday, probably 15% tomorrow), which gives us plenty of room to grow.
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By RangerRick, on January 3rd, 2003%
So I spent half a day trying to figure out unix ODBC stuff, and it turns out the PostgreSQL folks have a totally brainless MSI installer that gives perfect access to PostgreSQL remotely, without any fuss at all. Not only that, but this is the first time I’ve looked into access control, and it’s dead easy. We can have a public interface on our database that’s locked down so most users will only have read-only access to a view we control. Every time I look into this kind of stuff, I expect a whole lot of trouble, and then I’m suprised by the fact that it will only take 5 minutes of work to get things all set up. Hooray for Open Source!
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By RangerRick, on December 18th, 2002%
So tonight we’ve got 16 people going from work (and family) to see the two towers, or so I’m told!!! Madness, pure madness… Should be a blast. =) In KDE news, I got word from pogma that working dlcompat code is in dlcompat CVS now; I build it and tried it out and arts starts up, even with arts-tools installed (yay!). noatun and kaboodle still run like crap, but it’s definite progress. Now that that is done, the question is whether to include kdemultimedia at all, or at least those parts. They’re pretty worthless, as is, it looks like there’s some definite platform issues still. On the bright side, pogma’s changes make me pretty confident that there aren’t going to be other hidden symbol issues in other bits of KDE, so if nothing else I feel better about a release. Latest word on the KDE list is that 3.1 release candidates post-security-audit may be available this week, and a proper KDE 3.1 release is now expected in early January.
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By RangerRick, on December 17th, 2002%
Well, the Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Rings) viewing at work went pretty well. We ordered in some pizza and set up the projector and watched the 3 1/2 hour special edition at about 6 feet wide. ’twas pretty cool. Looking forward to seeing the Two Towers on Wednesday, we’ve got a big group going.
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By RangerRick, on December 15th, 2002%
Don’t believe me? Check out the 50 reasons Lord of the Rings sucks! Actually, we’re having a viewing of the long version of Fellowship after work tomorrow, gonna set up the big projector and stuff, should be a blast. A bunch of us from work already have tickets for Wednesday. Whee!
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