After reading Jonathan Carters blog about becoming an Ubuntu Certified Professional, I thought to myself “this is something that I need”.
January 10th, 2007, I was approved for Ubuntu Membership. Since then, my contributions to Ubuntu have increased ten-fold, with the work of US Teams and the Utah Team. Things are looking up for [...]
What happened to the good old days, when you could walk into a retail store, make a purchase and walk out? Maybe you had a salesman or associate try to sell you and extended service plan, or talk you up to the next best model. Maybe you had to haggle on occasion. [...]
I just love OpenSSH. That is the single greatest tool on unix-like operating systems, as far as I am concerned. I’ve blogged about SSH plenty. SSH tunneling, SSH forwarding, SSHFS and more. Needless to say, I believe that SSH is the single most flexible and powerful package on unix-like operating systems. [...]
Ok. Time for a game. Because I’m starting the game, I’m going to set the rules.
This is a blogging tag game, where, if tagged in a blog post, you must post as well. In your blog post, you must provide a trackback ping to the post that tagged you (a permalink to [...]
Apparently, people are having issues with the Bash script in my previous post. There is a syntax error, and they can’t get it working. The error is something along these lines:
aaron@poseidon:~$ bash irssi_notify.sh
irssi_notify.sh: 3: Syntax error: “done” unexpected (expecting “do”)
The problem is a missing semi-colon after the word “message” just before the word [...]
I am currently connected to two Irssi instances coupled with screen. One instance at home, for all my personal IRC needs, and the other at a corporate LAN for secure inter-office IRC messaging. It works great, except when someone tries to get a hold of you (a highlight). I haven’t found any [...]
UPDATE 2: Groklaw covered this post and Justin’s. Comments following are insightful, and far outstretching the content here. Read more here.
UPDATE: Justin wrote up a good review of the conference on his blog. You can find his post here.
I had the opportunity today, along with John, Kyle, Justin and Mike (some local [...]
Well, I just got my Das Keyboard (delivered about a week ago), and I’ve been typing on it non-stop since. I feel I owe my readers a review, just in case they are looking at getting one themselves.
First, when I pulled it out of the box, I couldn’t get past the size. This [...]
Phil Windley described in a recent post about a book written by author Archibald Putt (not his real name). He mentions a key point in I.T. and government, namely:
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
I’d like [...]
The new layout and theme on the Ubuntu site is amazing! Job well done! It’s refreshing to see the amount of professionalism on the page. It really sets us apart on the web as a Linux distribution. The Ubuntuforums are also shaping up nicely. I look forward to future improvements [...]
There have been a couple changes lately in my professional life, namely becoming an Ubuntu member, and now, joining the EFF. Both are important to me, and both are helping guide many decisions in my personal life. You may have noticed the EFF badge at the right in the sidebar. Well, that’s [...]
Last week, I posted a rather nasty letter on this blog to Centon, in regards to a rebate situation. Basically, I had tried contacting Centon a few times, leaving a couple unreturned voice mails and a bounced email. In frustration, and sheer anger, I posted a rather nasty post to Centon on this [...]
My coworker asked me this question, and began asking a few others in a couple IRC channels. So, I thought I’d extend it to my blog, and the planets that I syndicate. I added as many choices as I could hoping to see a wide array of votes. I added a few [...]
Being a Wordpress blogger, unfortunately, I have to wade through tons and tons of comment spam. As of current, I have caught 18,119 comment spams since the inception of this blog in September 2005. Thats more than 1,000 spams per month! That’s some serious spam.
Problem is, though, that some of it is [...]
The Caps Lock is a completely redundant key. Think about it for a second. It does what holding down the shift key does on your keyboard. And, given todays technology, there is absolutely no reason why you can’t have the shift key perform the function of the caps lock key. For [...]
