A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it was great to see another very smooth upgrade, without any manual workarounds required at all.
While […]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode
April 24, 2008 – 22:31
This is progress? (iftab vs. udev)
April 16, 2008 – 14:37
Apparently, the delightfully simple /etc/iftab is no longer used, replaced with the ugly and fiercely undelightful /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. See, you can even tell from the name of the file that you’re not going to like it.
Surely udev could read and do something useful with /etc/iftab, even if it only provides a fraction of the functionality? Ubuntu […]
links for 2008-04-10
April 11, 2008 – 04:32
Australia’s first Open Source Census published
“Results of Australia’s first large-scale Open Source community census have been released to the public. [The report] gives voice to the business potentials, patterns and concerns of a previously mute sector of the IT industry.”
(tags: waughpartners opensource census report)
Australian senator demands open source against US “lock-inâ€
“Australian senator, Karen Lundy, believes […]
Shell history stats
April 10, 2008 – 21:57
Okay, I’ll bite:
stanley: ~
$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
201 host
46 bzr
43 ls
40 cd
32 sudo
22 vi
19 scp
12 clear
11 ./push-live
9 wget
Amusing aberration at the top there.
links for 2008-04-09
April 10, 2008 – 04:32
Back off, China tells Rudd on eve of visit
“Mr Rudd’s hardline approach comes amid Opposition claims that he is too close to China.” — Our newly minted opposition just can’t catch a break, no matter what they try.
(tags: kevinrudd china brendannelson liberal labor australia politics)
‘Ms Fits’ named top blogger
“Marieke Hardy’s blog, Reasons You Will Hate Me, has […]
Perspective
April 9, 2008 – 15:11
Time for a little perspective on the Open Source industry in Australia… Yesterday, the ABS shipped some findings about digital game development companies:
At end June 2007, there were 45 businesses in Australia involved in the provision of digital game development services. These businesses employed over 1,400 people and generated a total income of $136.9m which […]
links for 2008-04-07
April 8, 2008 – 04:32
US software lock-ins harm local bidders
“There should be an insistence now at the policy level on open standards, thereby limiting the capture proprietary software companies have had in the past,” [Senator Lundy] said.
(tags: katelundy waughpartners opensource openstandards australia government policy)
Aussie open source report now a free download
“Sydney-based open source research firm Waugh Partners has published […]
GNOME in MarkMail
April 8, 2008 – 00:01
So when Tim O’Reilly pimped MarkMail a few weeks ago, with a post about their huge Perl mail archive import, I liked what I saw.
But it wasn’t just that. I also wondered how much we kicked Perl’s arse. Or, put more diplomatically… I wondered what the difference might be between two large, mature FLOSS projects.
Of […]
Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report 2008
April 7, 2008 – 16:32
Dodging spanners and hospitals, we’ve managed to navigate the last stages of our Census project to deliver the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report 2008!
It has been incredibly satisfying to ship the report, as this project has been with us in various forms for over a year now. The initial concept came together in […]
Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge
April 3, 2008 – 07:00
While I share some disappointment in the lack of technology practitioners at the Australia 2020 Summit, I’m tickled pink to be presenting today at a feeder event, organised by the very mavenly Senator Kate Lundy.
Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge features some familiar faces, and some fresh ones — all in all, an awesome group of […]
