September 15, 2006 – 11:25
Today is the final day to enter your proposal for linux.conf.au 2007. Our review team is chomping at the bit to read and rate all the submissions, and put together the fan-fucking-tastic line-up of mind-boggling topics and inspirational speakers you expect from linux.conf.au. Will you be one of them?
Note: We close when the entire planet […]
September 15, 2006 – 09:19
Ageing AUUG faces call to disband
That was quick. Coverage of Greg’s proposal to dissolve AUUG and my response.
(tags: linux australia auug press linux.conf.au lca2007)
Create your own Planet
Zonker’s guide to Planet: “With just a few simple steps, you can set up a Planet aggregator to watch your favorite blogs or to help publicize your favorite project.”
(tags: […]
September 14, 2006 – 14:34
Greg Lehey has proposed the dissolution of AUUG. As an interested spectator of AUUG over a number of years, an active participant in the Australian Open Source and Free Software community, and a member of Linux Australia, I’m in agreement with his proposal.
I know that some AUUG members have been sensitive about Linux Australia in […]
September 14, 2006 – 12:54
“I used DTrace extensively while I was working on Solaris and got used to being able to answer any question I had about a system with a few minutes of script writing. When I went back to work on Linux and could no longer use DTrace, I felt like I went from wielding a sharp […]
September 14, 2006 – 09:18
A Look Back: The Daily Show
Crooks and Liars remembers 9/11 through he words of Jon Stewart in the first The Daily Show broadcast after 9/11.
(tags: dailyshow jonstewart 9/11)
September 13, 2006 – 04:09
Yesterday, the well-traveled and now-infamous Quebecistani Craptop — a temporary replacement for my wonderful Dell X300, stolen in Montreal — was laid to rest. At least until EuroOSCON, at which point it will be returned to Canonical.
Today, I replaced it with a Dell D420.
It’s 100% Intel: Core Duo, 900 series graphics, ipw3945 wifi, MediaBase with DVI socket, 12” widescreen […]
September 13, 2006 – 02:50
“The adage, ‘governments lose elections, oppositions don’t win them’, remains true but it’s no longer enough for the government to be incompetent. If voters think that the opposition is more or less equally inept, they will stick with the devil they know.” — Tony Abbott, Labor states are riding Howard’s wave
… because that’s precisely what happened at […]
September 11, 2006 – 09:19
A review of the Glom graphical database front-end
Great review of Glom, Murray’s FileMaker-like desktop database project — this is precisely the kind of software we need to be relevant in the SME “niche”. Wonder if sqlite support is on the cards…
(tags: gnome glom database postgresql filemaker access)
Microsoft MD to chair govt ICT advisory board
Mildly old news: Steve […]
September 9, 2006 – 09:18
Free 64-bit single-core OpenSPARC processor core emerges
Ubuntu noted in third party press release as evidence of usefulness - check!
(tags: ubuntu opensparc sparc sun simplyrisc)
September 7, 2006 – 12:59
GNOME — the software and the community — is the secret sauce behind recent barnstorming Linux desktop products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. The project’s passionate developer community, “Just Works” approach and fierce focus on “Universal Access” — usability, internationalisation and accessibility — are making Open Source desktop technology compelling, desireable and commercially viable for both consumers […]
