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Home From OSCON

Well, OSCON is over and I'm back home now.  For those of you who've never been to an OSCON, it's a really great conference.  Well worth attending (and then some).  I only attended half of the last day, due to my flight time, but

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OSCON OSI BOF

I attended the OSCON OSI BOF last night.  Overall I think it went extremely well and was quite encouraging.  So encouraging that I've offered to do whatever I can (if anything) to help.  One of the main topics discussed was License Proliferation.  While no one on the OSI

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Dtrace OSCON session

I'm in a session on Dtrace, being given by Bryan Cantrill, who is one of the Dtrace authors.  I have to say that Dtrace is really nice.  Someone needs to implement this for Linux - it's really useful.  DProbes was the closest thing I could find

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OSCON Updates

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to post much from OSCON - the conference is really that good...and really that busy.  The sessions have been extremely interesting, the speaking lineup outstanding and the number of people to meet impressive.  I'll detail a few highlights here, but

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OSCON Tuesday Evening Extravaganza

Just got back from the OSCON "Tuesday Evening Extravaganza".  First, I'd like to congratulate Doc, who was the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award winner in the "communication" category.  Actually, congratulations are in order for all the winners, as each one was well deserved.

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Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM

It looks like the Mac OS X Intel kernel uses DRM.  Everyone knew that Apple wouldn't release a version of OSX that ran on a generic x86 whitebox.  Since asking nicely isn't really a viable option, DRM seemed like a good candidate for ensuring compliance.   I&

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Standards and CSS in IE7

While it's great to see that IE7 has tabs and addresses a whole host of CSS and layout deficiencies and bugs, it boggles the mind when you think how far behind IE actually is.  For instance, IE7 will be the first IE to natively support tabs, years after

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Firefox Tabs

Just wanted to thank everyone who contacted me about Firefox tabs after listening to the latest LQ Radio interview with Asa.  It seems that the behavior I was talking about, where you only get the tabs context if you have a tab open, can be easily changed by going to

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Interview with Asa

I just posted an interview I did with Asa over at LQ Radio.  We covered a lot of ground in 1:21, although I wanted to get into the Linux on the desktop topic much more than we ended up having time for.  He was already about 15 minutes late

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Levanta's Linux Management Appliance

When I first saw the Levanta Intrepid M, I thought it was an extremely nice device.  For those of you who remember LinuxCare, what remained of that company was renamed to Levanta about a year or so ago.  The Intrepid M has an impressive list of features, including bare metal

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OS X and the x86 Whitebox

This article gave me a thought (why the article made /. today when it was published two weeks ago, I have no idea).  I don't think Apple will (or should for that matter) just release OSX for generic x86.  They have a lot of benefits as it is now

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OSCON Bound

A little late (my procrastination once again astounds), but I am indeed OSCON bound.  LinuxQuestions.org is once again a proud OSCON sponsor.  If you'll be attending and would like to meet for whatever reason, drop me a line.  See you in Portland. --jeremy

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Are Windows Users Are Idiots?

According to this article, Windows users are idiots.  I have to disagree, for a couple of reasons.  First, I'd have to say that lacking knowledge about a computer in no way makes you an idiot.  I'm sure there are plenty of geniuses that are completely computer

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A Brief Look into LQ Visitors

LQ is in the "pretty big, but not huge" category, as far as web sites go (ie. 10M views a month < LQ < 100M views a month).  While many members are extremely new to Linux, the average visitor is certainly more technical than the average visitor at

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More Linux on the Desktop Musings

Looks like this blog post by Asa got Slashdotted.  I talked to Asa in depth about this at Gnomedex a couple of weeks ago.  I actually discussed that conversation a bit during the most recent episode of LQ Radio.  As I said there, I have to agree with some of

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Even More on Apple Moving to Intel

This topic continues to get an amazing amount of press.  I've seen a couple reports that this surely spells doom for the PowerPC platform.  I don't think so.  First IBM uses the POWER (which at this point actually uses the PowerPC instruction set - nice and

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Fun with Compiler Optimization Flags

I thought I'd comment on something in this article (which I blogged about yesterday) that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual Apple/Intel/IBM debate.  Here's a snippet from the article: So why didn't Apple take any of these offers? Was it

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More on Apple Moving to Intel

This topic came up during the LQ Radio Show last night, and I noticed this article today.  The article makes a point that I hadn't thought of.  Apple can now move to a single manufacturer for all products by using Intel's XScale in the iPod.  They

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LQ Radio Episode #2

Got back on track and recorded another episode of the LQ Radio Show last night.  Once again we had some minor Skype problems, but overall I think the audio quality is much improved over episode #1.  The moral of the story here though I think is that if we want

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A Few Quick Updates/Comments

...none of which are really worth a dedicated post. You may have noticed that we didn't post an LQ Radio episode last night.  One of the panelists had a last minute conflict and the show has been moved to Sunday.  Stay tuned. Technorati got back to me a

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Mark Cuban on Podcasting

Mark Cuban has some interesting things to say about Podcasting for business sake.  He's a smart guy.  What does he know about streaming over the Internet you ask?  Well, he did sell broadcast.com to Yahoo! for about 5.7 Billion, so I'd say he knows

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LQ to be a Sponsor for OSCON

A little late - but it's finally official.  LQ is once again a Media Sponsor for the upcoming OSCON.  Looks to be another great conference and one that I am proud to be associated with.  I hope to actually make the trip this year, but that's

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Google and Linux III

Looks like this conversation between Doc, Chris and I couldn't have been much more timely, at least if this is true.  It appears that the Google toolbar may soon support both Linux and Mac.  I've not seen official confirmation yet, but this is extremely encouraging.  Thanks

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Next LQ Radio Show

It looks like the next episode of LQ Radio is a go.  Should be myself along with John, Dave and Christian.  The delay between the last show and this one was a little longer than I would have liked, but we're back on track now and I am

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Social Bookmarking the Open Source Web II

We've fixed all known outstanding bugs at the new site.  We've also made huge performance enhancements.  While still beta, the site should be both stable and performant.  I think the tagline of "Social Bookmarking, tagging and annotating all things Linux and Open Source" really