It is wonderful to see the Fedora Users and Developers Conference kick off in Kuala Lumpur today, May 18 2012. The plan was for me to attend, do a keynote and also pitch a talk for the barcamp. But, Murphy…
It is wonderful to see the Fedora Users and Developers Conference kick off in Kuala Lumpur today, May 18 2012. The plan was for me to attend, do a keynote and also pitch a talk for the barcamp. But, Murphy…
While I would like to stand up and cheer Microsoft on them setting up the “Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc”, I am not convinced that they are doing this in good faith. Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, said in 1991 – 21…
I am an organizer of a programming contest that will be using some really cool technologies (HTML5, Python, OpenShift, just to name three). This will be a contest open to anyone but we would need whoever takes part to be…
Saw this on identi.ca feed: “@climagic youtube-dl -q -o- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscrs94_pFc | mplayer – cache 1000 - # Watch youtube streaming directly to mplayer” So, do yum install youtube-dl mplayer on your Fedora machines, then you can pull in youtube videos with the…
Change and evolution are hallmarks of any open source project. Ideas form, code gets cut, repurposed, refined and released (and sometimes thrashed). Much the same thing happens with teams of people. In the True Spirit of The Open Source Way,…
I spent 30 minutes this morning upgrading my sons’ laptops to Fedora 15. I used a Fedora 15 LiveDVD (installed on a USB) that I had created that included stuff that the standard Fedora 15 LiveCD does not because of…
Every time I update the OS on my laptops, I have to add the CUPS printer settings for the in office systems. It used to be that there was an internally usable RPM to do this, but I always thought…
I am really pleased to see that the IcedTea project doing so well that for all the sites that need Java enabled in the browser, icedtea is more than sufficient. It used to be the case that I needed to…
I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak from both a Red Hat and an open source presective about cloud technologies to the academic community in Malaysia. Clearly there is a lot to convey and I am hopeful…
I missed the live streaming of the NASA OSS Summit but it is mostly all captured and available on ustream.tv. These are the links to the recordings: Day One: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13644010 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13644386 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13647514 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13650365 Day Two: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13663029 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13663790 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13666816 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13668154 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13647514…
