Tag Archives: technology

QoTD: Justice Kirby

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Jeff Waugh

“We are moving to a point in the world where more and more law will be expressed in its effective way, not in terms of statutes solidly enacted by the parliament … but in the technology itself: code.” — Australian … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Day | Tagged Australia, code, kirby, law, technology | 5 Comments

Love in a time of Facebook

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

… updated her profile. She is now looking for friendship and networking. … went from being “single” to “in a relationship”. If I hadn’t already known offline, let alone been waiting for it to blossom in excruciating pain for months, … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged facebook, friends, love, relationships, technology | 6 Comments

Sun, Java and Other Shoes

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

“JAVA is a technology whose value is near infinite to the internet, and a brand that’s inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability). And so next week, we’re going to embrace that reality by changing our trading symbol, from … Continue reading →

Tagged java, sun, technology | 2 Comments

Linux for… Ladies?

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

“If you want to sound like a creep, add the word ‘ladies’ to the end of things you say: Thanks for coming to my show… ladies.” — Demetri Martin on his hilarious comedy album, These Are Jokes All kudos to … Continue reading →

Tagged FLOSS, justblamepia, technology, Ubuntu, women | 21 Comments

Freedom of Automation

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Jon Udell links to → his interview with Jeannette Wing about computational thinking → which reminds me of Conrad Parker’s Freedom of Automation talk (Ogg, 19M) at our Software Freedom Day event in Sydney last year.

Tagged FLOSS, freedom, sfd2006, technology | 1 Comment

Speaking with customers

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

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 … Continue reading →

Tagged film, FLOSS, humanity, justblamepia, Linux, migration, monoculture, technology, windows | 3 Comments

Measuring Blackouts with Cacti

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Every zero point on this graph — which represents the last two months of uptime on my laser printer (!) — is the result of a blackout. The first was kind of disappointing. The rest have just been annoying: Getting … Continue reading →

Tagged blackout, cacti, printer, snmp, technology | 6 Comments