Posts tagged ‘linux’
2010.12.11 Loss of virtue in a linkspam is irretrievable (12th December, 2010) (3)
For the Linux geeks: Lyz discovers that Computer Engineer Barbie has a penguin oursin responds to “Why don’t you just hit him?” with another argument against: If this sort of thing happens within a social ...
Full Story »2010.12.01 Open thread: penguins descending a hill (4)
Even if you are the geek who geeks Linux the least, I think you can fully appreciate that penguins descending a hill are awesome: see more Daily Squee Takes me back to my youth, playing ...
Full Story »2010.08.01 Shuttleworth apologises for last year’s comments at LinuxCon (4)
Remember how last September in a keynote speech at LinuxCon, Mark Shuttleworth (Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life of the Ubuntu Linux project) made a series of comments including one about how “us guys” in the ...
Full Story »2010.04.08 LinuxCon Wants You! (4)
I’ve been talking to some of the organizers of LinuxCon, and they are very interested in making sure that all women in the Linux community feel encouraged to submit a CFP to speak at LinuxCon. ...
Full Story »2010.01.28 Picspam from linux.conf.au (0)
The narratives will come. Tomorrow, gentle readers. Till then, a picspam: Angie Byron playing with Sridhar’s OLPC at the networking event at the Opera House. Angela’s picture! New Zealand Wool, maybe with some possum in ...
Full Story »2009.11.15 “Issues of Women in Open Source†for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?†(0)
Elizabeth Krumbach is a long time linux user and contributer who was elected to the Ubuntu Community Council last month. (Congrats Lyz!) These are some of her thoughts on the question, “Why are you involved ...
Full Story »2009.11.10 Interview with Indymedia sys admin Kristina Clair (7)
Yesterday the EFF reported on a “secret” subpoena served by the U.S. government on Kristina Clair, the sysadmin for the independent news site indymedia.us. The subpoena demanded information on all IP traffic for the site. ...
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