My friend Phil was trying to time how fast he could speedcube but he only had a Linux terminal with GNU tools. How can you time yourself using GNU tools? Here was our though process: run date twice and take the difference in times run time cat /dev/zero > /dev/null and ^C to stop our [...]
I’ve been talking to a lot of people about Dell and the current state of desktop/laptop computing. In particular, my friend Phil and I were talking to some Amazon.com engineers and they brought up the sad fate of Gateway. Gateway was in the same position Dell is now, maybe ten years ago. They ruled the [...]
Mike Bergeron, a former student at Purdue and a current Linux kernel developer at Motorola, gave a Linux kernel internals presentation for PLUG last week. The presentation was great! This is his second presentation for PLUG and he, by far, draws the biggest crowds. His presentation last year was mainly a Gustavo style how-to-code a [...]
Like everyone else, I used the /bin/false guide to install Ubuntu on my MacBook. Either I did something wrong or there was/is an error in the guide because lilo was installed to the MBR of /dev/sda and not the third partition, /dev/sda3, like specified in the given lilo.conf. I think the error in the guide [...]
Mark Shuttleworth has posted a response to Dell’s Linux survey on his blog. He brings up two main observations: the first being “margins on PC’s are razor-thin” and the second being “free software fans are a fussy crowd.” Both of these observations are presented in a way which seems to say it will be hard [...]