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RMS Does Toronto
Yesterday I got to finally meet Richard Stallman (RMS) in person. And yes, he is a way cooler dude than many in the “open source” gang say he is. The FSF announced a while back in a press release, that RMS would be speaking at UofT on the topic of copyrights in a networked world.…
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Attaining High-Earth Orbit
Welcome to my new blog. After fighting it out with Drupal, I decided to go with WordPress instead. I’m quite impressed the ease of install, permalinks work and everything. I can’t say the same about Drupal. But then again, these are two different tools for different purposes. Enjoy the new blog.
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Moving House and Home…
Please excuse the past few days of silence. But I’ll moving this blog/journal/collection of incohesive rants yet again. The new home will be at my new brand new domain: https://dorianpula.ca/ Now at the moment of posting this message, the domain is not up. CIRA, you fail again. So for the next few days I’ll be…
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The Filter Problem
Recently, Matt Asay blogged about Clay Shirky’s keynote on Web 2.0 Expo. I must agree that many problematic aspects of my web experience hinge on the concept of filtering. Now I realize that ultimately everyone on the web can read my content. However, I would prefer different people to get different content at different times. …
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Windows? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Windows!!!
I just read this article on Phoronix on the Phoenix HyperSpace quick boot Linux. So a quick boot Linux partition installed side-by-side with Windows is nothing new. It happened early last year. Rather what this article shows is the increased awareness of Linux in the vendor space. It also shows that vendors will ditch their…
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Why Ubuntu is Important for Me…
So Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community leader (and mister communitizing the community using community tools 😀 ) asks why Ubuntu is important to me. In my case this would be why is Kubuntu important to me, but then we will be arguing over semantics. Yes, the freedom Ubuntu brings into my life is one reason why…
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BBLUG in Review
Ok, so I didn’t expect BBLUG to go off without a hitch. However it doesn’t seem like a Linux or BSD-only tech group is all that interesting. I’m still debating whether or not to continue this LUG experiment. Maybe we can start a computer group, but that is really not my interest nor do I…
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The First Brampton BLUG Meeting Tomorrow!
Eugene and I decided to start up a Brampton BSD-Linux User Group (BBLUG!). This will hopefully grow into a community of open source enthusiasts in the Brampton and Mississauga region. While we are competing in theory with the folks at GTALUG and WGTALUG, this is more of bring something to Brampton. I know there is…
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Open Source Gamer Goes to Ontario Linux Fest 2008
Last, last weekend (October 25) I attended my first conference, Ontario Linux Fest 2008. And what an awesome event it was! The event turned out be a somewhat low key event. Not a huge number of exhibitor booths, but the Eclipse, Fedora, FOSSology, FSF, OpenStreetMap and Drupal people had setup shop there. The event featured…
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On Hacking with Maemo
Time is the ultimae in precious and scarce commodities. With work and travelling up North to kayak, I spend most of my spare time away from a workstation. Hence the convenience of owning a N810. I can code and write anywhere! Ok so I haven’t tried putting gcc or other c development tools on this…