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News Flash – Matthias Ettrich Gets a Medal, the N900 Gets Reviewed
Dorian continues his quest in pursuit of sanity, salvation and free time under the combined mountains of e-mail and code. He sents his regards and asks yet again for patience. As a token, he gives you his take on the latest cool developments in the consumer Linux space. Matthias Ettrich Awarded the German Medal of…
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Review of Ontario Linux Fest 2009
Two weekends ago I went to Ontario Linux Fest 2009, held here in chilly Toronto for the third year in a row. And for such a young conference, it was quite good. In fact good enough, that longer review of the event is in order: Morning Keynote – Changes to the GPL The day started…
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Linux… the Future of Computing
I’m a Linux user. So I always like to strain my ear to hear news about Linux. But this I didn’t expect. Caroline and I did a bit of computer shopping before going to watch a film together on Saturday. While we wandered the aisles in the nearby Futureshop, she turned and asked me what…
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An Encore
I didn’t update my blog yesterday. Life turned out busier than I could imagine. I am still catching up on things. I took on so many tasks. I have a trip to plan. Writing and reading just piles up around me. I’m not sure in which direction I should concentrate my efforts. My efforts to…
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Dinner at Prince
Tonight I met up with one of my friends from my professional writing course, Andrei. Since I could meet him in the early evening, that meant I could get some extra sleep and start work later. Extra sleep is always a welcome change in my schedule. Commuting to work by bus not so much. Work…
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The New “Mojave” Experiment
I have a few friends working at Microsoft. And a usual conversation goes in the direction of which is better Microsoft or Linux. Then the flames roll in from across the horizon, and everyone ends up agreeing in disagreeing. I’m planning to bring this fight to the next level. With any luck this will end…
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Building a Community
Ok. Aaron Seigo of the KDE project is a genius. He really is. Not only does he lead the absolutely revolutionary Plasma project in KDE, but he also knows what he is talking about. Anyway he wrote a kickass article about how to build a community in open source. And I’m too lazy to write…
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The Forecast for 2009
First of all: Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone had a great time celebrating Christmas and ringing in the new year. So it looks like the second day of the new year is slowly coming to a close. This year promises to be as exciting and interesting as last year. Maybe even more so.…
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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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Updates to Life
I haven’t blogged about myself in a bit. So here is an update on me: @ Work: Have less than a month left of my probationary period at work. All the signs, indicators and omens point towards my staying on as a fully privileged employee of VisionMAX Solutions. I am very pleased with this situation.…