OSCON Opening Keynote

As usual, the opening OSCON keynote was extremely interesting.  Tim talked about which Open Source is on the Radar.  There was a lot of talk about parallelism (Intel) and concurrent programming (Microsoft).  Tim also interviewed Mark Shuttleworth.  I had planned on live blogging the event, which contained a bunch of great quotes and facts.  Why didn't I?  My laptop has broken.  Badly.  Every once and a while (and especially if not firmly planted on a flat surface) the display just goes blank.  Once it happens, the only fix is to shut the machine off, fiddle with the lid for a while and then restart.  It's going to be a real pain and I'm going to have to get a new laptop ASAP.  This one is a bit old anyway.  One tidbit from the keynote that is laptop related.  After Intel released powertop, they got a ton of info from the community and as a result were able to increase battery life by almost an hour.  Linux now has the most efficient power consumption of any OS on the Intel platform.  Awesome.

--jeremy