Older blog entries for roozbeh (starting at number 51)

Fedora Core 4 is out, which means much many more users for GNOME 2.10. Hurray!

This came on #gnome-hackers:

<luis> roozbeh: fudding against the americans should be fair game

I seriously believe one can make a really good hackergotchi from this photo of Glynn. Update: uws (who calls himself "a postmodern geek living in the Netherlands") already did it! It rocks!

On the other news, I was locked out of our compile farm because I installed an updated pam on it.

On the other other news, Elnaz, the CEO of FarsiWeb and my wife, was not allowed into a building of the governmental Management and Planning Organization, who is one of our company's customers, because of "inappropriate hijab" (the headscarf was very much like the first photo on the Wikipedia article, and almost the same blue color, which practically doesn't have any kind of problem, legal or not, or they would have arrested her in the street). The guard was a woman herself, of course, and she refused to show us anything on paper about the weird requirement. She allowed her in after she went and bought a different kind of headscarf, which was black... Will post photos here later.

Caleb: You should check this about The Da Vinci Code.

My first real security bug: Today, I probably found my first real security bug, which I obediently reported to Red Hat's "secalert" alias. I'm sorry I can't disclose more, but I enjoyed finding it.

Too bad I can't read the OSNews article anymore, it will apparently help feed the masochism. She has apparently removed the article from OSNews.

FarsiWeb Linux: Today, we delivered the first version of our home-made Fedora-baesd distribution to the Shell office in Tehran. The good news is that they are also looking forward to use that in some of their offices in other countries, starting from the Syrian ones.

You can't guess how happy I am. This is our first real production project, as opposed to the government-funded research projects or the consulting ones.

Wild dreams: I'm having lots of random dreams during the time I am trying to catch up with the lost sleep because of the trip to Germany. Last night's was about an announcement that the next GUADEC will actually be held somewhere in Italy. No, I can't recall the exact city.

Google update: It seems that some people are trying to correct me about the racism thing, and tell me it's only discrimintation against certain nationalities, not races. OK, let's call it discrimination against certain nationalities. Does it change anything? No, it feels the same to me as a victim.

(Note: as someone who considers himself an internationalization expert or something, I of course know the difference between a race and a nationality. The only big difference this has with the common racism, is that the common racism usually has a "race supremacy" theory attached to it.)

Google update: After my previous post, I found a good reason for confirming that Google is actually trying to simplify things for itself instead of just following the US government requirements: Google is already paying for the services of the ".ir" registry, which is an institute founded, funded, and part of the Iranian government. Simply follow this WHOIS link, type "google" in the text box and press the "Search" button.

Yes, they are paying for a "service of Iranian-origin" already, actually a service from the Iranian government. They simply don't like to deal with random Iranian students (or Sudanese, or Cuban, or Syrian, or ... for that matter).