We just had 4 new teams go up to the CC in their IRC meeting for approval, and all 4 teams were approved. They are: Georgia Michigan New Jersey New Mexico Congratulations all 4 teams! What does this mean? It means that 4 Ubuntu LoCo teams have become recognized by the Ubuntu Community Council to [...]
This has been discussed a bit lately, and I thought I would throw in my two cents. Why would you want to run 64-bit versus 32-bit on your personal computer? Simple, your 32-bit operating system contains a ticking time bomb (no pun intended) that could likely explode causing problems for you creating headaches. It is [...]
I need to get this down in a post as the energy from it is just exciting. When Christer went to UDS, he came back with a wealth of information, and shared it with the project showing us how we could improve Ubuntu as LoCo teams from many differing angles. The result, I think, is [...]
As mentioned yesterday, I am the owner of a new Palm Centro smartphone. I really love it. It’s been a long while since I’ve owned a Palm PDA, so it has that nostalgic feeling every time I power on and start working. I do miss the handwriting recognition, however. That was good times. Overall I’m [...]
First, a disclaimer. I have real reasons why I haven’t updated my blog in the past 20 days. The number one reason? I’m a dad of course. She was born on Halloween and we took her home from the hospital on Monday the 5th (she’s adopted). She’s a doll, and I relish every living second [...]
I was browsing around my company‘s internal wiki while looking for some teaching aids on teaching the Red Hat RH033 course this week and next. While there, I found this fun little gem (provided by Joseph Hall): When teaching file permissions, create a directory called ‘base’ and in that directory a number of base? files: [...]
