One Laptop Per Child project pledge
If I could push one ‘net meme this year, I would choose this one: ‘I will purchase the $100 laptop at $300′ – PledgeBank The project has just released its prototypes, and they look great. They run...
View ArticleAmazon EC2 and S3, what it is, and what it isn’t
There is a lot of confusion going on about Amazon EC2. I know I didn’t fully understand it when I signed up, but now that I’ve played with it for a while, I feel that I can comment on how it works. It...
View ArticleK3b 1.0 Released!
Congrats to Sebastian Trueg and his team: K3b 1.0 Announcement – K3b I am proud to announce the release of K3b 1.0. powered by performancing firefox
View ArticleAmazon AWS Presentation for VanLUG
Thanks to everyone who came out to the presentation tonight. Here are some links with some more information: Amazon Web Services blog S3Fox Organizer for Firefox Web interface to AWS EC2 plugin for...
View ArticlePeople are drooling over Drobo
People are drooling over Drobo: Data Robotics, Inc. | Drobo Product Specifications Drobo Product Specifications Four Bay Disk Interface • 3.5″ SATA I or SATA II hard disk drives • Full or half-height,...
View ArticlePaid EMIs from Amazon EC2
New feature from Amazon EC2: Paid AMIs allow AWS developers to charge other Amazon EC2 users for the use of AMIs they have created and shared. Sellers of AMIs set the price, and their customers then...
View ArticleHeatwave!
Wow, it was hot last night! So hot, I had to shut down the PVR: Message from syslogd@ebi at Wed Jul 11 18:39:42 2007 … ebi kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold It seems like my plants are doing...
View ArticleYum Error
Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 105, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File...
View ArticleSony TVs run Linux
Someone posted this link on the VanLUG mailing list. Very interesting! Sony – Open Source Code – English The following products incorporate software covered by the terms of the GNU General Public...
View ArticleMy meeting with James Moore
I’ve talked to my MP twice: once briefly during his 2007 XMas Open House, and then on July 23, 2008. I discussed my objections to the bill, from a perspective of a parent who needs to back up his kid’s...
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