Hook’s Humble Homepage

Back in 2010 I created my very own theme for Z-Shell and a few months later I started publishing my dotfiles on Gitorious on GitLab instead of just this blog.

Our increased dependency on centralised solutions – even in systems that are created to be decentralised – is becoming alarming.

Update: March 2025 We moved out September 2015, as we were running out of money.

Today was a great day1 — I met an old friend who came to visit Cyberpipe on the way to/from the city library.

I have seen many reviews – mostly on forums – of different brands of DE blades.

Originally this HowTo was part of my last post – a lengthy piece about how I migrated my blog to Pelican.

I am happy to introduce you to the 5th incarnation of Hook’s Humble Homepage – and the most comprehensive incarnation ever.

By accident I just discovered an awesome feature of Vim – by typing das in normal mode it Deletes Around the current Sentence.

In the past I have often used a specific Asian emoticon o_O and its variations of eyes to depict bewilderment, surprise and wonder.

While I was waiting for nginx and above all PHP1 to compile, I was reading some documentation on LVM and found this little gem: LVM has now implemented MD software RAID directly also for mirroring, so there is now theoretically no reason to combine the two

Yes, that is right – yet again I am using a new blog system!

The birth of the continental European jurisprudence of “droit d’auteur” is based on the premise that authorship is some higher bond between the author and his work and that author’s rights (or copyright, if you will) are a natural right 1.

After many years (4 or 5 I think) my trusty old ThinkPad T400s died.

I underdstand why people like GitHub for its social workflow and being a one-stop-shop solution.

Hello, hello!

I’ve decided to re-take the course “Gentle Introduction to Python” 1 on MOOC-E, which is starting on the 17th of June.

This is just a simple test whether Habari 1 can push posts to Friendica 2.

So, I have been shaving with shaving oil and safety razors 1 for a while now and decided that it is time I help my fellow geeks by spreading some knowledge about this method (which is sadly still poorly documented on-line).

The day of love is going to an end and before expressing my gratitude to some Free Software that makes my day, I’ll try to explain why there are so many people expressing such powerful emotion towards it.

Since geeks spend much of our time communicating over e-mail, today I’m going to share some general tips on the netiquette for writing e-mails.

In my last blog post, I tried to understand how Python counts items in a sequence.

I started to learn Python again and this time I hope to have a good feeling about finishing it.

Since the beginning of this month, FSFE Legal has IRL office hours in Cyberpipe every Wednesday.

Update: Sale of Goods Directive (EU) 2019/771 The Sale of Goods Directive (EU) 2019/771 has since been enacted and applies to any contract concluded after 1 January 2022.

I’m sorry for the recent downtime and any inconveniences this might have caused.

Since today I will move my office every Wednesday from 09:00 to 17:00 CET 1 to the biggest Slovenian hacklab – Cyberpipe.

One of great things with stuff being files is that you can simply copy and move them around.

Woo, that’s went surprisingly smooth!

Since my first post on this new website, I tried to migrate the MySQL database from my old Drupal 6.x website.

Just a quick notice to say that my blog now supports MarkDown apart from pure HTML as text entry option.

You may (or not) have noticed, that the license of my humble homepage changed.

I’ve already set up my new homepage/blog, it’s located at matija.suklje.name.

So, this is my new blog and homepage – based on Habari – I have to say that it’s seems quite light-weight and first impressions are a very positive.

As I already mentioned last year, I’m planning to migrate this website and blog onto my very own server.

I know I haven't blogged much lately – bad hook, bad!

Regarding Free Software Licensing, FSF explains some more why companies should switch to GPLv3 and the Linux Foundation publishes version 1.0 of SPDX – their standard format for communicating free software license and copyright information.

The past two weeks were quite eventful.

This (slightly prolonged) week was very interesting in the Software Patents department – apart from new happenings in the Lodsys and Nortel cases, there are more and more cries about (software) patent abolition being needed (even from less likely places).

In this week's update the biggest news is probably IBM promising to give its source code to Lotus Symphony to the Apache Foundation (Free Software Licensing).

Although it was a relatively uneventful week, probably the biggest news item from the past week is Microsoft (anew) using the tried and tested method of a huge patent portfolio to bully other companies into paying them just to go away (Software patents).

A new week and we're back on track.

First of all I would like to apologise for yet another late Legal News Update.

Come and celebrate your freedom in Ljubljana!

In the licensing section, the FSF has updated its license recomendation guide.

Free Software Licensing¶ 451 CAOS Theory: Time for a new open source definition?

Free Software Business¶ Ubuntu CTO, Matt Zimmerman is leaving Canonical.

Free Software Business¶ Nokia said it will transfer 3,000 employees to Accenture by the end of 2011 and that they will work on the Symbian operating system and eventually Nokia's implementation of Microsoft's Windows Phone OS.

If you ever tried to either report a bug or solve it yourself, you have probably come across terms like "backtraces" and gdb (GNU Debugger).

A bit over half a year ago I published my very own Zsh prompt, after which I decided to publish some of my dot files (including the said prompt) on Gitorous.

Free Software Business¶ Carlo Daffara: Nokia is one of the most active Android contributors, and other surprises TechWorld: Ubuntu Linux boosted by 10,000 seat PC win ComputerWorld UK: OpenOffice.org: Freedom on a Fork Wild Webmink: Transparency and Priva…