September 2, 2010
Cross-posted on Geek Feminism. Co-authored by Moose J. Finklestein, OLF's speaker committee chair.
Some conference organisers will say "we didn't get any submissions from women" to explain the lack of women on their stages. As of two years ago, the Ohio LinuxFest was...
Recently, I had a reason to allow someone else to use a shell on a machine for which I'm the admin, but I wanted a way to track what they're doing. You might think the
historycommand is just fine for this, but it's possible to clear the history, and I wouldn't want that. Screen to the rescue!I ssh'd into the machine and created a new user for my visitor. Then I switched to that user. Once logged in, I ran
screen -L,...
August 28, 2010
Jono wrote about his new ZaReason Strata, and Rich wrote about his new ZaReason something-else, so I figured I'd let you all know about the ZaReason Terra HD I said I wanted to order, now that I've had it about a...
August 24, 2010
A common answer to my question about why people aren't packaging is that packaging is hard. Debhelper 7 and Source Version 3.0 (the new Debian packaging format) make things a lot easier.
So is it hard? In the common case, no.
Assuming the software you want to package uses something like Python distutils (
python setup.py build && sudo python setup.py install) or Autotools (./configure && make...I asked this on Ubuntu.StackExchange but only got 3 answers so far, so I wanted to put this a bit more publicly too. What keeps you from packaging, patching, etc? If you do those things, what keeps you from applying for upload rights?
About 150 people are members of lp:~ubuntu-dev right now. There are also a...
August 18, 2010
The first point-release for Kubuntu and Kubuntu Netbook 10.04 is now available. If you've been putting off installing because of the number of updates you'll have to download, the good news is all updates, bug fixes, and security patches that have been released for these two versions of Kubuntu have been rolled into the new 10.04.1 disc images, saving you from spending hours on updates. Yay! Just visit the...
July 26, 2010
Last weekend was The Next HOPE (following from The Last HOPE) in New York City. HOPE stands for Hackers on Planet Earth and is a biennial conference put on by 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. The Wikileaks guy may or may not have shown up. Some online say he didn't. Someone else told me "oh yeah, he was sitting behind the Tesla stage drinking Club Mate all day Friday," so who knows. Apparently his keynote timeslot resulted...
July 10, 2010
Probably a year or so ago, I made this design and submitted it as a possible Ubuntu Women t-shirt:
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June 29, 2010
If you haven't submitted a proposal to Ohio LinuxFest yet, don't fret. The CFP has been extended to next Wednesday (7/7). Go to the CFP webpage to submit your proposal.
June 21, 2010
At Southeast LinuxFest, ZaReason (the company that made my laptop Betty two years ago) had a table.
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