August 29, 2006, 22:52
100 x Ubuntu 6.06 LTS CDs from Canonical for HOSEF
In August 2006, I received a shipment of 100 Ubuntu Linux CDs to distribute through HOSEF.
Contents:
Edubuntu, 64-bit, Mac = 10 each
Ubuntu = 70
40 Ubuntu stickers - 1 for my laptop = 39
1 cardboard CD display stand
I put mini "Brought to you by HOSEF" stickers on all of them.
Boxed, labeled and ready to distribute
Edubuntu CD - Close up
StandAugust 28, 2006, 23:56
August 10, 2006, 09:30
OpenVZ and Debian... Guido presents... GPLv3 discussions... AOL privacy nightmare
OpenVZ is now part of the Debian Unstable repository. OpenVZ has really come a long way since it was open sourced late last year. I'm sure that having OpenVZ packaged up for Debian will bring a whole lot more developers who may already be familiar with VServers.
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Guido Van Rossum in a recent presentation about Python 3000. He was also interviewed recently in the FLOSS Weekly podcast.
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A good discussion on Slashdot entitled 'Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted'. In a way, I much prefer Slashdot to Digg in that the format encourages intelligent commentary.
Some quotes and posts I particularly liked:
Remember that Linus created the Linux kernel. "Trying to build a Free Software system without Linux is trivial; I have three machines that I use regularly without a single line of proprietary code on them, and none of them runs Linux. Trying to build Free Software system without any GNU code is almost impossible."
Is Linus short-sighted? He holds a high a lot of respect. Will he change his mind? "The way Linus sees it is from the "developer" viewpoint. The code is
still free from this viewpoint, since all modifications are published.
You can modify it and run it on a DRM-free machine.
That's
the short-sightedness of Linus' argument (the same short-sightedness
that let him get trapped by the Bitkeeper fiasco). There are DRM-free
machines now, but that doesn't mean there will be in the future. If the
media companies have their way, every desktop computer will have a TPM
chip in it, and if you want to view things like HD-content, it has to
be enabled and running..."
UPDATE: Stallman, Torvalds, Moglen share views on DRM and GPLv3
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After reading a story about smug "$60 million" boy, I checked out Digg and found out that AOL released the search logs for 500,000 users (over a 3-month period) as a neat 460Mb download. The download's been taken down but by the time you read this it will be seeded heavily on BitTorrent. I downloaded a copy. It's not pretty. It's a privacy nightmare.
August 08, 2006, 12:31
Anti-Spam Commenting plug-in added to LavaNet 'Ohana Blogs
There has been a minor spate of comment spam in the Blogs.An Anti-Spam Commenting plug-in has been added. If enabled for your blog, commenters will need to type in the details of a captcha to add a comment. This comes highly recommended as it prevents script kiddies from spamming the blogs.
The plugin configuration page can be found under Control Center->Anti Spam Management. You must click on 'Enable this plugin' for it to be enabled.
If you'd rather not use the plug-in, you can continue to mark comments as spam. The blogging system incorporates its own spam filtering system so a lot of spam is already blocked! Marking a comment as spam also helps 'train' the filtering system.
Feel free to drop me a line if there are any issues!
August 03, 2006, 11:00
RPM for Asterisk... Django 0.9.5... KernelNewbies web site
ATrpms maintains very up to date RPMs for Asterisk. For some reason, perhaps because there are Linux distributions that allow you to run Asterisk out-of-the-box, I thought that Asterisk was some full blown service that was difficult to get up and running.
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The web framework Django recently released version 0.9.5. I first looked at it when it was first released to the public over a year ago and it impressed me. I think I need to revisit some of the Python fundamentals. I've forgotten how to use things like dictionaries and list comprehensions.
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KernelNewbies is a site I found out about this week after looking at some videos from OSCON. I like the 'human readable' changelog for the Linux kernel's that they have. It's sites like that which show you the astronomical speed in with Free and Open Source Software is developed.
The site runs on MoinMoin which I am evaluating for LavaNet as a whole but also using as a personal wiki system running on my local workstation. I've implemented MoinMoin interernally at my former work place and it's cool to see how much they code-base has changed in the past year.
This Summer Of Code project to allow multiple storage system implementations looks especially interesting.
