Congraulations on conference sellout

Congratulations to sjh and team for selling out linux.conf.au 2005!

tech/linux-australia/lca2005 | 31 Mar 2005 | #

Krispy Kreme in Australia

Time to petition Krispy Kreme to open stores in Australian states other that Sydney (with Adelaide being the next state! :-)

http://www.krispykreme.com.au/contact.asp

tech/misc | 31 Mar 2005 | #

sprints for linux.conf.au?

This is from http://pycon.blogspot.com/

What is a sprint?

A sprint is a focused development session, in which developers pair in a room and focus on building a particular subsystem. A sprint is organized with a coach leading the session. The coach sets the agenda, tracks activities, and keeps the development moving. The developers work in pairs using XP's pair programming approach. This might be a cool adaptation for BOFs or for a future hackfest at linux.conf.au's.

tech/linux-australia | 31 Mar 2005 | #

shared source cluelessness

Rhetoric from an ex-Microsoft employee. I wouldn't normally mention it, but since I made reference to Shared Source here recently, I thought I'd better followup.

Steven makes points along the line of revenue. That's not the main point. Average Joe is going to continue to buy his Windows OS via a shrinkwrap because of the assurances that buying Microsoft gives him. It's the same as Red Hat - take Fedora and package it - that's RHEL. Why do people buy free software? The assurances and the paid support. MS would not lose in this scenario by embracing open-source.

The main issue is modifiability. Being able to modify the code means fixing bugs. That's the major advantage of OSS. Being able to fix problems and guarrentee maintainability long-term.

Why doesn't my JVC video camera not work under Windows XP? It's too old, so the driver no longer ships withe the OS, and JVC don't care. This wouldn't happen with open-source.

tech/windows | 31 Mar 2005 | #

michaeldavies.org back online

michaeldavies.org is back on-line after a few days in the wilderness. After a power failure it didn't come back and I was relying on remote support. What is strange is that it's back, but the TZ where the server is located suggests it's 2am :-%

This also means planet.linuxsa.org.au is back too.

meta | 31 Mar 2005 | #