(With apologies to Monty Python) Four well-dressed men sitting together at a LUG meeting, surrounding a laptop running Ubuntu 9.04. First Yorkshireman (1Y): Ahh ... Very passable, this, very passable. Second Yorkshireman (2Y): Nothing like a good install of Ubuntu Jaunty, eh Gessiah? Third Yorkshireman (3Y): You're right there, Obediah. Fourth Yorkshireman (4Y): Who'd a […]
Jono's post about taxi cabs and close calls with death reminded me of how little hassle I've usually had with cab drivers. I usually chat away to cabbies, and tip pretty generously on most occasions, but one guy in San Francisco took the biscuit, and didn't get tipped. Or chatted to, as I was giving […]
As someone said on IRC this morning: "the FSF appear to have come up with the perfect plan for how to look like a bunch of annoying, smart-arse tossers ". Has the Free Software Foundation gone nuts? Update 13:30: I don't seem to be alone on this: popey , mgdm , ZDNet , Slashdot . […]
Finally, I've managed to get the LugRadio IRC Quotes Database back online on the day that the large gents released LugRadio Season 5 's first episode . I've migrated from rash to Chirpy! — the same qdb used by the Mozilla Foundation , amongst others. This migration has been a long time coming, and hopefully […]
It's time for another Cram Post , Neuro Style. june » to san francisco for a couple of weeks to acclimatise to linden lab culture and processes, very chilled yet productive fortnight, i can now convert pounds sterling to/from US dollars and PDT to/from BST in my head; july » had great fun trying to […]
I like to blog, but I've been remiss in posting. So what better time than the end of the year to post what I've been up to. Three tomatoes are walking down the street: a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes […]
Coupla podcast-tastic things happening, both of which have sweary bits. Woo. First, myself and some of the LugRadio IRC/forum regulars started up hashlugradio , to discuss topics brought up in episodes of LugRadio, but also brought up by the community members. We cranked out a first test episode and released it last week — it's […]
Two sides to the same story : Linspire are releasing a freely-available, freely-distributable, community-led, Debian-based Linux distribution ( sound familiar ?) to be called Freespire . Linspire's edge is that they will distribute non-free drivers, such as for nVidia or ATi graphics cards, as part of the core distribution, and not from optional repositories a […]
The Clan #lugradio Maps site has been updated with new download locations for the maps, and a shell script to assist Linux users (and Windows users running Cygwin I suppose) in keeping their clan maps up-to-date. The script defaults to downloading to ~/.etwolf/etmain , so if you've changed that from the default, make sure that […]