Where the hell am I? Apparently, I’m in St Louis.
The flight from San Francisco to St Louis was delayed by an hour or so, so I missed the connection to Columbus by 15 minutes. So, it looks like I’ve put my trust in US domestic air travel for the last time. Lesson learned. In future, […]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Stranded in… Somewhere
September 30, 2006 – 14:55
Ohio LinuxFest 2006
September 30, 2006 – 06:46
Tomorrow, I’ll be giving the opening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest! Then I’ll be listening to Jorge’s presentation about Linux and Windows living together in harmony. Sweet!
The organisers have packed a lot of great stuff and fantastic people into one day. Unfortunately, I land in Columbus after 21:00, so it’s unlikely that I’ll make it […]
links for 2006-09-28
September 29, 2006 – 09:17
Presentation Zen: Your moment of Zen
Mixing two of my favourite treats: Presentation Zen and The Daily Show
(tags: presentation zen dailyshow)
libmail-audit-perl
September 24, 2006 – 14:42
You do realize that searching for “christ on a stick†the way you’ve done only checks if all the words are present somewhere in the description, right? They don’t need to be contiguous, and they aren’t in libmail-audit-perl’s case.
Torsten, no, I did not realise that!
I thought libmail-audit-perl actually invoked The Messiah, attached to a piece […]
links for 2006-09-23
September 24, 2006 – 09:18
The future of the Linux Terminal Server Project
Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora working together to make LTSP a core part of the desktop ecosystem. Jim McQuillan: “Just it turn on and it will work, just like with Apache, or Samba, or CUPS.”
(tags: linux ltsp debian ubuntu fedora jimmcquillan desktop)
Linux XP screenshots gallery
Russian XP clone made with […]
What’s wrong with software
September 22, 2006 – 21:27
$ apt-cache search powerful | wc -l
486
$ apt-cache search flexible | wc -l
355
$ apt-cache search loving | wc -l
3
Update:
$ apt-cache search christ on a stick | wc -l
1
WTF?!
$ apt-cache search christ on a stick
libmail-audit-perl - Perl library for creating easy mail filters
Ah…
Serious miniconf action!
September 22, 2006 – 15:28
We just pushed out a fresh press release, New format, more miniconfs for linux.conf.au 2007, detailing some of what we’re doing to cope with the enormous demand for the conference.
We’ve had over 250 submissions for talks, tutorials and miniconfs this year. Of course, most of our growth strategies were planned over a year ago (aside […]
links for 2006-09-20
September 21, 2006 – 09:24
Software compliance now a sitting Black Duck
“Pia Waugh, director of open source consulting firm Waugh Partners, said software compliance is the latest area of interest and hurdle the industry needs to overcome, particularly in the government sector.”
(tags: press piawaugh blackduck waughpartners licenses compliance)
Unix users question relevance, group faces death knell
Computerworld coverage of the AUUG issue, […]
links for 2006-09-18
September 19, 2006 – 09:21
today’s hack: pstimeouts
Utterly sweet hack from Ryan Lortie, focusing on the performance issue du jour: process wakeups (which result in nasty context switch action). Great tools and documentation of horrors are the best ways of fixing the future.
(tags: ryanlortie gnome linux ubuntu performance)
Ruby-dooby-doo!
September 15, 2006 – 20:33
Now here are a few dots that demand reference and connection…
2001: Ruby folks discuss AVM, with a bit of info from Gilad Bracha.
September 1st, 2006: Joel Spolsky drops the S bomb on Ruby. Blogosphere convulses, a lioness hath whelped in the streets, etc.
September 7th: Sun, via Tim Bray, declares its love for Ruby.
September 10th: The […]
