Category Archives: FLOSS

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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Australia fails to take a position on OOXML

March 31, 2008 – 13:31

EPIC FAIL: Australia fails to take a position on OOXML, abstains on final OOXML vote.
It’s disappointing that while our Prime Minister travels the world with a stated intention to increase Australia’s influence and activism on the global stage, we at home have failed so miserably to come to a conclusion — positive or negative — about OOXML.
As a participant […]

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Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report Launch

March 31, 2008 – 12:37

Don’t forget — tomorrow night’s main event is the launch of the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report, based on the results of the survey conducted by Waugh Partners. Make sure you RSVP!
Grab the PDF version of the invitation to send to your clients, business associates, local representatives, etc.

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Understanding the Ubuntu package repositories

March 31, 2008 – 12:08

During a thread about daylight savings confusion here in Sydney, Martin Barry asked the SLUG list why updates to Ubuntu packages go into a separate “updates” repository. John Ferlito suggested that I blog my answer…

I’ve never understood the ${ubuntu_release}-updates thing.
A separate repositry for security I understand due to the need to bypass mirror lag.
But anything […]

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GNOME 2.22 and other awesome

March 18, 2008 – 15:50

Somewhat belated celebration of our latest release, but hey, I just wanted to see the release love continue to roll by on all the Planets. Check out Dave’s release linkage for some bricks and whole bunch of bouquets.
Definitely great to see Cheese (of which I am quite the fan) so prominently featured in the […]

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