This might sound offtopic, I'm referring to authors when I say this, but when it comes to the colors of Squeeze theme, is there any way colors could be anything but blue? At least a different shade of blue?
Adnan On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Ulrich Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 05.11.2010 19:23, schrieb Valessio Brito: >> >> My Opinion: >> 4. The Lisp Machine[4], a proposal is noisy, dark and mechanics. Lack >> the human touch. >> >> >> My proposal for a vote: Each proposal must have an objective >> presentation of inspiration and creation. >> >> The interpretation or vision of creation is interesting to see if it >> corresponds to Debian. > > Thanks for criticising. I try to answer and to present my idea. Sorry if > it's a bit lengthy. > > > I wouldn't put technology in a position where it stands against humanity or > a human touch. In contrary: Deeply human ideas can be the driving force for > technological development - think of the AT&T charta: "The general route of > the lines of this association will connect one or more points in each and > every city, town or place in the State of New York... with one or more > points in each and every other of the United States, and in Canada and > Mexico; and each and every of said cities, towns and places is to be > connected with each and every other city, town or place in said states and > countries, and also by cable and other appropriate means, with the rest of > the known world." What an idea. To connect everyone with everyone. In 1923. > > Another idea like this was written down in August 1983: The plan to build "a > complete Unix-compatible software system for standard hardware > architectures, to be shared freely with everyone". Richard Stallman wrote > these lines on the first pages of his "Lisp Machine Window Manual". He hid > the idea in a computer manual, one month before he went public with it in > his famous "Free Unix!" mail. The idea to enable people to develop and work > with software in a community, where everyone is free to share ideas and > contribute. > > The Lisp Machine on the photograph, on which my theme is based, may look > dark and mechanical (and even a bit dusty). But it's the product of years of > work of a human being, of Richard Greenblatt, once called "hacker of > hackers". > > In his book "Hackers" Steven Levy describes Greenblatt as student in 1963: > "He was turning out an incredible amount of code, hacking as much as he > could, or sitting with a stack of print-outs, marking them up. He'd shuttle > between the PDP-1 and TMRC, with his head fantastically wired with the > structures of the program he was working on (...). To hold that > concentration for a long period of time, he lived, as did several of his > peers, the thirty-hour day. It was conducive to intense hacking, since you > had an extended block of waking hours to get going on a program, and, once > you were really rolling, little annoyances like sleep need not bother you. > The idea was to burn away for thirty hours, reach total exhaustion, then go > home and collapse for twelve hours. An alternative would be to collapse > right there in the lab.“ > > Some may call this inhuman. And its not healthy anyway. But I think it is > just freedom. To fully explore logical problems and to solve them the most > elegant way. To hand-assemble a machine like the one on the photograph. And > not to stop until it is perfect. > > This is what I tried to photograph and to put in my artwork. And I think > it's obvious why I think it would be a great fit for Debian GNU/Linux. > > thanks for reading this, regards > Ulrich > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
