[TAG] Re: Linux Gazette Redux :)

[Thomas Adam]

On Wed, 26 May 2004 13:57:13 +0200
"Huibert Alblas" <huibert_alblas at web.de> wrote:

> Hello Ben (and the others)!

Halb. Welcome home. :)

> Haven't heard of you and the gang for a long time either.

Indeed.
 
> I was a little bit confused when (over a year ago, as far as I can
> remember) I got a mail from (hmm, forgot his name)
> claiming he was the editor of the LinuxGazette,
> and that he was breaking up with TAG (or something)

Yeah - some ballyhoo or rather. Something about arsehole and "Phil is"
spring to mind.

> Then I stop receiving mails from TAG,
> so I thought the Project was dead.

Never!

> I visited the LinuxGazette site a few times,
> but didn't realy like it.

Heh.
 
> Since then a lot has changed in my live,
> At the time of the TAG breakup I was without work,
> shortly afterwards I got a job offer at the Metro Group (one of the
> worlds largest trading companies)

I've heard of them.

> I landet in a Team of 3 people doing Java/Oracle based 
> Enterprise Portal and Backend Development,
> very interseting stuff, but a _lot_ of new stuff to learn.

It's all good. I bet that is quite interesting, too.

> I starting to help getting away from usnig winNT based development
> to debian.
> Opensource is definetly going strong in our litle corner of the
> company, Who knows where it will end.

Usually after it has been installed.

> I'm also getting maried next year :-)

My condolences. :)

> Anyways, I just visited http://linuxgazette.net/
> and saw the the site is "back to normal"
> (but looks better!)

Uh-huh.

> I will subscribe to list, but only if it stays below 50 mails/day,
> before my subscription was cut there was a lot of noise on the list
> from people talking (mainly) to each other.

Well, there is a lot of spam, but we're looking into fixing this. And as
for the chatter -- that was due to the move from SSC. There is a bit of
chatter here at the moment, most of which is _not_ Linux related, I
should add.

> Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against people having fun
> communicating, but I won't have the time to keep track of another 50+
> mails/day.

Then you should be ok -- but bear in mind things fluctuate.

> I will install the current Gazette on my palm to read on the way home.

Ok.
 
> Back on topic: Articles.
> 
> In our team we have switched from PVCS to subversion for our projects.
> (subversion is a (way) better cvs)
> If there is a demand, a could write an article about a simple
> subversion repository setup, with user auth, but without apache2
> spezifics.

Yes, we _need_ articles. Please, put fingers to keyboard and type away!
:)

-- Thomas Adam

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