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{ Monthly Archives } April 2007

US Teams Update

Well, it’s that time, I think. Just yesterday, we had an Ubuntu Community Council meeting, and a rock-solid team was approved, with two rock-solid members also getting membership. It was a triple hit, out of the park. So, with that said, congratulations to the Kentucky Team for approval, and Eric Lake and [...]

My RSS Feeds

Ok, a bit ago, I was looking for some RSS feeds. I was hoping that I would come across some real good feeds from those on a couple planets. I was in the hunt for tech/geek/Linux/FLOSS feeds. I found a few, and I’m happy with the results thus far, even though, I’m [...]

Uptime

February 1st, 2007, at 9:00 am, I had to bring my server down due to a failing power supply. After reinstalling, it’s been up for:
aaron@achiles:~$ uptime
07:17:29 up 69 days, 22:18, 4 users, load average: 0.49, 0.17, 0.11
Nothing spectacular, compared to many servers out there, I’m sure, but two months isn’t bad. [...]

A Couple Changes Today

These are probably the two most prominent changes today, both taking effect on Easter.
- Debian releases version 4.0, codenamed “Etch”.
- Gaim changes its name to Pidgin, due to legal pressure from AOL.
This is great news for the Free Software world. Debian, being the most forked Linux distribution with the largest and most widely used [...]

Why A Dark Blog Theme?

I just received an email from a concerned reader about the theme of my blog. With the utmost respect, I am posting the body of the email text here, then the justification of why I chose an overall dark theme for my blog. I am not posting this to embarrass the person [...]

I’m Going Back To Windows

No. Not me personally. It’s the threat that we, as Linux users and developers, hear constantly. It’s on the forums, mailing lists and IRC. These ridiculous threats, that if something in the Linux operating system is not fixed or handled to their liking, they’re running back to Windows. To me, [...]