Jun 29, 2010 11:20pm GMT
This past weekend I visited my family who now lives in Pennsylvania. My mother and father are long retired and living in a retirement community. This weekend was their 68th wedding anniversary. My brother retired from the telephone company a long time ago, having been an electronic technician and lives with his wife. Once a year my brother and sister-in-law attend a big family... more »
Kernel Issues - The "Hurricane Katrina" of programmingJun 27, 2010 3:01pm GMT
Last week I spent two days that the Red Hat Summit in Boston. Unlike a lot of conferences I attend, I actually spent much of my time in technical talks listening to some of the things that Red Hat was going to be putting into RHEL 6.0 which is due out in a short time1. I enjoy listening to technical talks, particularly ones talking about kernel issues since I used to teach operating system d... more »
Speaking of Speaking - Ohio Linux Fest and other ConferencesJun 25, 2010 1:44pm GMT
There are a growing number of local and regional FOSS conferences happening around the world, and one of the oldest of them, the Ohio Linux Fest, asked me to comment on why people should consider submitting and giving a talk a conference such as theirs. The first reason, is the concept of “sharing”. You have developed an idea, a project or a piece of code on which you have expended t... more »
Boston's Summer of (FOSS) LoveJun 21, 2010 10:09pm GMT
There will be a lot of Linux activity in Boston this summer, all before the middle of August. The Red Hat Summit and JBOSS World leads the parade with four days of training and talks, June 22nd to June 24th. I have a great deal of respect for Red Hat and their engineering staff, having worked with many of them when they were at Digital Equipment Corporation, and I know that I will en... more »
Its My Duty!Jun 01, 2010 12:47am GMT
On a recent trip to Ghana I took along 137 T-shirts that O'Reilly and Hackerteen had given to me to hand out at conferences. I stuffed them into my suitcases and carried them with me on the airplane, both to make sure they got there, and to avoid huge amounts of shipping cost. When I got to the airport I had (naturally) to go through customs, who questioned why I was bringing so many T-shirt... more »
More Moving Thoughts: Adding to Rikki Kite's blog entryMay 30, 2010 11:52pm GMT
Last week my colleague Rikki Kite wrote a good blog entry on how to gracefully introduce a person to Linux. She pointed out that just telling a person to “move to Linux” is not enough, and that most people will “get lost in the move”. She used an analogy of moving a friend to a new house. I would like to add a few more pointers to her excellent “moving” blog entry: Tip #0.4 – A... more »
Gandhi: Would he have been a Free Software advocate?May 30, 2010 10:54pm GMT
I watched a movie on Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhilast night and was once again impressed by this singular man and his life. I also found a couple of parallels to Free Software. The first parallel was when Gandhi told the people to spin their own thread, weave their own cloth and make their own clothes. He did this for several reasons. First of all, by purchasing t... more »
