Gergely Polonkai

Father. Coder. Maker. Linuxer. Child forever.

  1. Samillinor’s Pride

    It was time again. Day after day it was the same, and Samillinor was more and more upset about it. Since the temple was built her daily routine was the same: wake up with the Light, prepare the ritual, make the ritual, fail the ritual, eat something which she felt …

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  2. Little Emma

    As of date, little Emma hasn’t eaten for weeks. The whole family feared for her as only those tubes entangling her body kept her alive. Still, her eyes seemed happy, though she was dizzy and sometimes saw little globes of light. She was awake for hours, much longer than …

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  3. Upgrades requiring a reboot on Linux? At last!

    I’ve recently received an article on Google+ about Fedora’s new idea: package upgrades that require a reboot. The article said that Linux guys have lost their primary adoo: “Haha! I don’t have to reboot my system to install system upgrades!” My answer was always this: “Well, actually …

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  4. Fast world, fast updates

    We live in a fast world, that’s for sure. When I first heard about Ubuntu Linux and their goals, I was happy: they gave a Debian to everyone, but in different clothes. It had fresh software in it, and even they gave support of a kind. It was easy …

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  5. PHP 5.4 released

    After a long time of waiting, PHP announced 5.4 release on 1 March (also, today they announced that they finally migrate to Git, which is sweet from my point of view, but it doesn’t really matter).

    About a year ago we became very agressive towards a developer who …

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  6. First travel together

    In the middle of the panel jungle, on the rooftop of a house a man who called himself Megron was talking to his apprentices when the wind began to blow. Everyone looked him up in awe that when he was talking about the spiritual power of the air, the wind …

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  7. The Encounter

    Mendari stood on the top of a worn-out, old panel house. He looked down on the masses on the street. “Your life depends on the fact that I have not chosen to end it yet. As soon as my brother is gone, no one will be left to save you …

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  8. Destructive Creation

    They stood on the top of a hill, looking sadly at the town and the forest slowly devoured by it. They really tried everything. They asked the workers, even the higher management to stop this, or it won’t end well. They told that the forest will get fed up …

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