Monthly Archives: June 2007

Transformers

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Wow. Is it possible that Michael Bay’s reputation could be… uh… transformed by his new film? A whole two thirds of the film went by before his trademark gratuitous slo-mo action shot! It turned out to be a solid, popcorn-worthy … Continue reading →

Tagged film, transformers | 3 Comments

Mako joins the FSF Board!

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

A very welcome surprise: Mako will be reducing the average age of the Free Software Foundation Board of Directors, after the recent resignation of long-serving director Eben Moglen (and the likely departure of Lawrence Lessig in the near future). Sadly, … Continue reading →

Tagged FLOSS, freedom, fsf, sfd, sfd2007 | 3 Comments

Freedom of Automation

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Jon Udell links to → his interview with Jeannette Wing about computational thinking → which reminds me of Conrad Parker’s Freedom of Automation talk (Ogg, 19M) at our Software Freedom Day event in Sydney last year.

Tagged FLOSS, freedom, sfd2006, technology | 1 Comment

If the Ocean’s films are the culture tax I have to pay for Clooney’s other work, roll on Ocean’s Fourteen!

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh | 2 Comments

Speaking with customers

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Today, Pipka came home with a story about a customer who was considering moving to a 100% Windows environment because he was merely unfamiliar with Linux. Now, I wouldn’t recommend the strategy she used in the general case — in … Continue reading →

Tagged film, FLOSS, humanity, justblamepia, Linux, migration, monoculture, technology, windows | 3 Comments

Measuring Blackouts with Cacti

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Every zero point on this graph — which represents the last two months of uptime on my laser printer (!) — is the result of a blackout. The first was kind of disappointing. The rest have just been annoying: Getting … Continue reading →

Tagged blackout, cacti, printer, snmp, technology | 6 Comments

GNOME in The 5th Wave

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Shreyas noticed that the The 5th Wave’s June 17, 2007 strip includes a homage to GNOME! Rocking! Update: Melissa points out that UserFriendly was pretty awesome on the 17th too.

Posted in General | Tagged desktop, FLOSS, GNOME, Ubuntu | 3 Comments

Filing Google bugs… but where?

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Is there a place to file Google bugs? I couldn’t find one, so here is a report I uploaded to the cloud. Description of the problem: Google returns feed URLs in search results. These are rarely helpful to searchers in … Continue reading →

Tagged google, web | 9 Comments

Firefox: Still Saving the Web!

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Steve Jobs’ vision for the web, rendered as a pie chart.

Tagged desktop, FLOSS | 14 Comments

Preview as Screenshot

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Jeff Waugh
Tagged WordPress | 4 Comments