Mirroring the Linux Update podcast
I'm glad James appreciates the mirror. Perhaps it's worth using the mirrors in the XML feeds for the podcast? [icbm: home]
We’re getting there
So, we're still pulling stuff, although a bit of that has been deciding what to pull... [icbm: home]
Back from Perth
The Vines resort (where the Jonny Walker Classic is played) is nice, if you like early 1990 architecture, and golf. Just don't try to have a shower in your unit, as the hot water system is the size of a thimble. Hire cars are good, because they take you away from the Vines. Freemantle and Perth are both good, with the Halo resturant in Perth being the producer of one of the best meals I have had in a long time. Photos online soo...
Thanks for the kind word Pia
Pia has nice things to say about the mirror project, but I thought I should chime in and mention that Andrew has done by far the most work so far. [btags:] [icbm: home]
Google Pizza Program
Pizza purchases at Google's expense for hungry college students. That's very cool. (Full disclosure: I recently attended a job interview with Google) [icbm: work]
I like screen oopsies
I've already posted this image today, but it was buried in a bunch of other stuff. Check it out: Funny. Especially given United's terrible check in service.
Perth for a conference
The TOWER Asia-Pacific annual conference is later this week in Perth (Wednesday to Friday). I have a couple of free hours here and there, mostly in the evening. If there is anything interesting happening in Perth later this week, could people drop me a line and let me know? Failing that, if you have a free day in Perth, what would you see? Rottnest Island? [btags:]
The Linux Australia mirroring project
Some of you might be aware that Linux Australia recently agreed to support a trial open source mirror project for Australia. This mirror is being run by a sub-committee of Linux Australia, on hardware owned by Linux Australia. The purpose of this post is to remind people of the project, and give a quick status update. It has to be quick, as I'm really busy this week. Our hardware arrived several weeks ago, and having been kindly configured by Andrew Pollock was ready for deployment about a week ago. This deployment was held up with some illness amongst various players, but the hardware was deployed to the data center last week by Steven Hanley and myself. We're currently finalising network ACLs for the machine before we can work on finishing off the software configuration. At this time I would like to ask for suggestions of projects which would benefit from mirroring. Preferably there would be a clear benefit to the community in Australia from such a mirror, and support from the people being mirrored for the concept. Bandwidth isn't a problem, and disk isn't a big deal as long as the suggestion doesn't need hundreds of gigabytes. I'll keep you…
Pacifying New Orleans
To passify New Orleans they're going to use troops just back from Iraq? I don't know if that is accurate, but it sure sounds like a bad idea. When the Brits sent troops just back from the Falklands into Ireland, it wasn't much fun either. [icbm: home]
Why does every man and his dog put man pages online?
So, I know that I have a few man pages online, but then again I wrote either the code they document, or some of the generation toolchain to create them, so I think that is different. Why does every man and his dog feel that he should put man pages online? It actually makes it really hard to search for things if the first page of Google results are the same man page over and over again from sites who seem to think that they're making a contribution to the community. Are they just doing this to grab some pagerank?