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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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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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Experimental Web Application Branch
Yesterday I started upon moving justCheckers into a web application. I didn’t want to pollute the trunk of the subversion repository. So I created the webappbranch. You can grab it by running: svn checkout https://justcheckers.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/justcheckers/branches/webapps My next major task to tackle is updating the documentation on the wiki and in the source code. After that…
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I’m Hating it!
Humanity has a love-hate relationship with technology. Geeks like to take it to the extreme. Take the recent hub-bub in the blogosphere about the aptly named: Linux Hater’s Blog. In that blog, the anonymous blogger (or bloggers) rants about how BAD Linux is. Its entertaining and educational! Entertaining because rants and rabble-raising is fun… in…
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Symlink Mirror – A Useful Python Script
Just wanted to share a useful little python script I crafted. I creates symlinks from the top level directories in a specified source folder to a target folder. Its a neat little tool for linking between two distant directories under UNIX. Share and enjoy! #! /usr/bin/env python “”” Symlink Mirror ———————————————————– Author: Dorian Pula Version:…
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Task Oriented Architecture
As neotechnophiliac (a.k.a. person crazy enough to run alpha releases of software), I love to experiment with different technology. And these tests are often for the pursuit of pointless knowledge and killing time. Technology and engineering are a lifestyle for me. Most people don’t see technology that way. Technology comes in two flavours: toys and…
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Blogging the Busy Life
Its funny actually. I imagined that with work, I’d have more money and time to do the things I want. Money is not the issue after all. Time on the other hand, is the ultimate scarce resource. Hence I blog less than I want to. Fortunately as I fall into the rhythm of work, free…
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No Recent Grad Open Source Jobs for Non-Rockstars
As I continue my job search, I realized the difficulty of finding open source jobs for recent graduates. Especially if you aren’t a rockstar programmer. Unless people know you, and you worked on a high profile open source project, there seems no real way of working in the open source business. Open source businesses have…