Monthly Archives: January 2008

WordPress MU + OpenID

After quite a bit of work, WP-OpenID is now ready for WPMU! Always wanted your WPMU install to consume OpenID for logins and comments? Now it can! I am already running this modified version on blogs.gnome.org and perkypants.org (WPMU and … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged OpenID, WordPress, WordPress MU, WPMU | 29 Comments

Faster OpenSSH 4.7p1 in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

A couple of weeks ago, while chatting with Rob, I mentioned that John gave me an awesome tip that I use all the time: The pget command in lftp, particularly for sftp downloads. That’s right: Not only does lftp provide … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged hardy, openssh, performance, ssh, Ubuntu | 20 Comments

GNOME bugs through the ages

Over on Planet Debian, Christian Perrier looked back at the number of Debian bugs submitted over the years. The variation is not quite large enough to make any serious judgements about the impact of Ubuntu, but the spike in 2004 … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged bugs, Debian, GNOME | 7 Comments

Happiness is a warm cache

If you haven’t celebrated New Year’s in Sydney, you haven’t celebrated New Year’s… and remember, kids, 2008 is the year of Linux on the des– kidding! Happy new year! Photo courtesy SMH. Click the image for more.

Posted in General | Tagged 2008, desktop, Linux, nye2007, sydney | 7 Comments