Everything is a Freaking DNS problem - dries

FAQ:

Kris Buytaert — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:32:26 +0000

Q: Is Dries your Brother ?
A: No he isn't.

Q: Are you related to Dries ?
A: No we aren't (as far as we know)

Q: Do you know Dries ?
A: Yeah .. I've known him since before he started his work on Drupal, now can you stop asking about Dries and refocus on me ?

Q: Are you related to Thomas Buytaert
A: No.

Q: Why are you sdog on irc ?
A: Back in my DemoScene days my nick was Sleeping Dog , whch was too long for a unix account name , sleeping didn't feel like a good choice and neither did dog, so the abbrev became sdog

Q: Are you still involved in openMosix ?
A: It's dead Jim, openMosix never made it to the 2.6 Kernel series, Moshe announced the EOL in July 2007. I've been told the folks over at LinuxPMI are doing good job in trying to revive the project.

Q: Why is Inuits called Inuits ?
A: Try finding a cool name and the matching available .be domain. That and our marketeers didn't know where the Penguins live.

Q: Why is Everything a Freaking DNS Problem
A: You mean you still haven't figured out yourselve ?

Q: I want to connect ?
A: No prob, here's my policy

Q: Do you want to give a talk about Open Source, MySQL HA, Devops, Virtualization, CloudSec, Open Source ....
A: Tell me more about your event and I`ll consider it.

Q: I've got another Question
A: I`m pretty sure you can find my email address and mail me :)

Losing an argument

Kris Buytaert — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:06:44 +0000

About 2 months ago I sent a mail to Dries, telling him

I`m losing an argument with Dag , because I can't tell him how great Mollom is :(

Luckily Dries contacted Dag ,and now we can tell the world.. Mollom is great, Mollom allowed me to open up my comments

Now if only I could do the same for trackbacks :)

It's funny how lots of oldskool demoscene people tend to be involved in different interesting startups. Back in the ninetees we were travelling Europe to party at our favourite demo events and now we are all meeting again. You'll also recognize Uncle Bob, Emperor and others in this bunch of antique articles

It was Uncle Bob who introduced me to Dries about a decade ago, at the sunny terrace of Den Hill iirc

It's a small world .. and it ain't growing bigger ..

Not using Open Source requires Anonymity

Kris Buytaert — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:19:17 +0000

The local Trends Magazine has a big article about Open Source and Free software.. sadly it's mistitled "Gratis software becomes real business"

Apart from mentioning the usual suspects ,the obligatory Acquia mention, and the fact that everybody who is in the business wonders where the so called market analists get their figures, the biggest surprise in the article are the things that are NOT mentioned.

It seems that these days you have to be ashamed for not wanting to use Open Source ..

Translated: "Also other and often big software companies see the advantages of using open sourcemodules in their packages, although the are not making it public. "We are a big proponent of Open Source , but I don't see how you can live from it", says the managing director of a Flemish Information Services Group, who prefers not to have is companies associated with open source"

Pretty pathetic, Yes we are using Open source, No our customers shouldn't know,
No you don't get to know who we are, we want to remain anonymous.

I've got a pretty good idea which company this might be .. do you ?