Tag Archives: linux

This is progress? (iftab vs. udev)

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 successfully […]

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.

Cliques, invitations and meritocracies

So am I paranoid? Are invite-only events a necessary evil? Or should I let my curiousity overcome my principles? Hey, maybe one of those web 2.0 types could help me enable comments on my blog… — Rusty Russell, The foocamp clique?
… so I wrote down some of my musings for Rusty in an email, but then another discussion […]

Jinxed again for 2008

“No doubt you’ve heard the prediction before — ‘this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop’. At the risk of being repetitive, though, I’m going to go ahead and say it: 2008 really could be the year of the Linux desktop.” — Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, Is 2008 the Year of the Linux Desktop?

So if you’re […]

Go, SCO, go!

Seriously guys, you totally win.

QoTD: Len Brown

“Apparently a market for more config options is alive and well. Thank you for helping make the future of Linux more clear to me.” — Len Brown, on the tastefulness of Linux config options

Speaking with customers

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 fact, I’d find it hard to recommend it under many circumstances at all — but here’s how she began her successful […]

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