Monthly Archives: April 2008

Smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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This is progress? (iftab vs. udev)

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-04-10

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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Shell history stats

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-04-09

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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: … Continue reading →

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Perspective

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-04-07

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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GNOME in MarkMail

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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, … Continue reading →

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Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report 2008

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

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