“Jessica I feel quite safe, yes, but not because I’ve got these armed soldiers behind me that were put there by your stage manager here to make it look good.” — Brigadier Michael Slater, talking to Jessica Rowe on Today
Once upon a time, a 4U server was donated to SLUG, for use as a web and list server. Though it wasn’t wildly powerful, it became known as “The Six Million Dollar” machine, because it had really earned its keep in a past life.
As soon as it was delivered, I used the Linuxcare Bootable Business […]
Polypaudio 0.9.0. Righteous. Could Polypaudio be the cure for the ALSA blues? Could GSmartMix be the sweetness that puts Polypaudio back on the GNOME agenda? I put Lennart and Marc-André in touch. Let’s see what happens.
Planet in Strange Orbit: Ben Martin (of libferris infamy) wrote a rocking article about how to set up and run your own Personal Planet. Thanks, Ben! Strangely, it was published in a particularly bad issue of Linux Journal, which for some reason covered how to untar and run blogging and podcasting tools. This is not […]
Matt Galvin has made ubuntu-artwork parallel installable, and created packages for all previous generations. Ever since we shipped hoary I’ve wanted to do this, but could never really justify it — oddly enough, Daniel Holbach also started talking about it when he took over ubuntu-artwork for dapper.
Let’s make sure this gets into edgy — seriously!
Joe Marcus Clarke, who has worked tirelessly for a number of years making GNOME rock on FreeBSD, has never been very noisy about his excellent work. So I was very happy to find him quoted in a ZDNet article about FreeBSD’s desktop efforts, and a whole interview with him on Will Backman’s bsdtalk podcast (mp3, […]
“The greatest competitive threat we face is our own ability to either embrace or compete with alternative business models.” — Steve Ballmer
“Kung-fu prepares you for thinking strategically rather than reacting. I’ve learned to be the master of the first stroke and to take control of any situation,” says Ms Waugh, who six months ago founded an open source consultancy business, Waugh Partners.
Plus: This is my 500th post, over six years and three locations. Yay!
Last month, Rob did a talk about test-driven development at SLUG. It made me wonder: Does God employ test-driven development… and are we the product, or the test-suite?
“From now on, I will strive to make TUX rise above the comments that divide our community. If I slip, you most certainly can ask for my resignation.” — Kevin Shockey, Editor-in-Chief, TUX Magazine
Great to hear — I sincerely hope that TUX Magazine and its stable mate manage to clean up their acts.
