SRCE 1.0.7 is out
From my e-mail to gnupanel-devel: For inclusion with GNUPanel, I have finished and released SRCE 1.0.7. For those of you who don’t know what SRCE is, here’s a synopsis: SRCE stands for (S)ecure (R)emote (C)ommand (E)xecution, however it does much more. SRCE is a non-blocking microkernel style cluster of services that revolves around a very [...]
Urban Dictionary broke my spell check!
I commonly spell check myself by simply using Google. I paste my version of a word in their search box, then click search. Seconds later I see the definition of my word as the #1 result, or a link beginning with “Did you mean ….” that suggests the correct spelling of my search entry. Now [...]
Bye bye Sourceforge
Today I received the following in a footer from the OpenSSI development mailing list, hosted at Sourceforge: ————————————————————————- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/ vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ssic-linux-devel mailing list ssic-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ ssic-linux-devel Is it *absolutely* necessary to promote the biggest patent fiends in history to your [...]
When to use ‘a’ or ‘an’
We are geeks. We’re capable of banging out instructions to computers in a plethora of languages. What escapes most of us is simple English. To our defense, English is not so simple. I’ve been editing some documentation submitted for a few of the free software packages that I manage. I am compelled to preach to [...]
Simple bash toupper() and tolower() functions
Many people aren’t aware of several built in macros available in the ‘tr’ program. The program, ‘tr’ stands for “translate or replace” and is available on any standard GNU/Linux distribution. Using this simple utility, I wrote some simple shell functions to convert lower (or mixed) case strings to uppercase, or uppercase (or mixed) strings to [...]
OLPC can work, if we work.
OLPC = One Laptop Per Child, for the current-tech-events impaired There is a proverbial ego storm raining fud all over the Internet, its been pouring now for about two days. I am sad to see that (for many) the need to express our ideals is usurping our desire to consider solutions. People are in an [...]
Abort, Retry, Stumble?
I’m now a firm believer in information overload. Quite frankly, I think that information overload is good for us, we laugh and discover more things than we normally would. The problem remains that our bosses get irritated when things don’t get done ‘on time’. Note: ‘on time’ usually means a reasonable amount of time that [...]
Xen and the art of web hosting
I’m working on a pretty comprehensive book aimed at helping web hosting providers adopt Xen for some of their offerings. Xen ‘out of the box’ is a really nice platform designed to make as many people happy as possible. Web hosts have special needs that require special planning, a guide to planning and implementing Xen [...]
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