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    • The Bizarre Cathedral - 60 November 24, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I really hate it when people take this attitude about things. Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral. read more
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    • The Really Traditional Socratic Method November 22, 2009
      You ask people hard questions. Then they kill you. Copyright © 2009 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: )
      Eugene Volokh
    • Wind Power Could be Stored as Ice November 21, 2009
      A perfect way of storing electricity generated by wind turbines has been elusive so far.  Ideas like super-sized batteries, compressed air and hydroelectric storage have all been floated.  One company though thinks the answer could be as simple as making ice. Calmac has come up with a storage system called IceBank that uses the energy generated at off-peak n […]
      Megan Treacy
    • Polar Bear Robots Replace Dead Bears at St. Louis Zoo November 24, 2009
      Shared by Douglas um, how about just not having Polar Bears? thanks St. Louis. Officials at the St. Louis Zoo are preparing for their holiday Wild Lights exhibit by installing electronic polar bear proxies in place of the deceased polar bears who died in their captivity. The gesture is rife with social commentary, given the fact that polar bears have become […]
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    • DRM-free top-flight horror novels November 20, 2009
      Brett from small-press horror publisher Chizine sez, "ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words. You've seen us mentioned recently […]
      Cory Doctorow
    • Google Chrome OS Event November 20, 2009
      Shared by Douglas Ha. Google makes Linux a Mac! Google will announce more information about Chrome OS at a press event that starts at 10:00am PST. Google will offer "an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for next year. Speakers will include Sundar Pichai, Vice P […]
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    • EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent - And We Need Your Help November 19, 2009
      Patenting podcasting? You've got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such exclusive rights. EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP aren’t willing to just sit by and watch. This patent could threaten the vibrant community of podcasters and millions of podcast listeners. We want to put a stop to it, but we n […]
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    • Texas Accidentally Bans All Marriage November 19, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I like Dave, my uncle-in-law, but seriously, Texas, you are a collection of idiots. I favorited a YouTube video: Vote for TYT every day at http://www.podcastawards.com/index.php?option=index (through 11/30/09) & http://www.mashable.com/owa/ (through 12/13/09) For more details visit www.TheYoungTurks.com and follow us on Twitter at http: […]
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    • On keeping up with modern technology November 17, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I don't find this particularly funny, except for the 2Girls1Cup reference and picture. On keeping up with modern technologyA couple of years ago, I went round the house of some relatives, to see them sitting at the dining room table with his'n'hers laptops doing their Christmas shopping.I laughed.I told some other people, the […]
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    • OVC Presentation at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Washington D.C. November 13, 2009
      One of our top programmers, Parker Abercrombie, represented OVC at the National Institute of Standards and Technology workshop on Common Data Formats, OCT 30. OVC has been pushing for Open Source and Open Standards for some years now. By all accounts, our presentation there was very well received. The slides used are available here in PDF format. You can fin […]
      Alan
    • Get two free audiobooks from Audible November 16, 2009
      No strings attached! Well, you do have to sign up for a 30-day trial membership, but you can cancel it before the billing cycle kicks in--and keep your two freebies.
      Rick Broida
    • On crap-o-vision, again November 16, 2009
      On crap-o-vision, againTypical.You go a whole year without anything truly, truly bad on television, and then two gems come along in a week.And bugger my luck - I go and miss both of them.Regular readers know that I'm a big fan of rubbish, and last year's Demons on ITV was a true turd on the otherwise white tablecloth of British television which I t […]
      Scaryduck
    • Get a 42-inch Panasonic plasma TV for $499 November 13, 2009
      Whoa, did Black Friday come early this year? Whatever the case, this is a seriously awesome deal on a 720p plasma. Just make sure to act fast, because it expires today.
      Rick Broida
    • Brazil to Allow Private Copying and Mashups November 11, 2009
      I always said Brazil was a civilised country:O MinC proporá que a cópia privada de qualquer tipo de obra digital seja permitida sem a autorização expressa ou remuneração ao titular para uso privado e desde que seja apenas um exemplar, além de permitir o uso do conteúdo original em outra mídia que não aquela que o consumidor comprou originalmente.Na prática, […]
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    • You know what else is an abomination, Maine? Lobster November 4, 2009
      Dear 53% of Maine,Today you decided that homosexuals are lesser human beings who don't deserve the same rights as heterosexuals. You have just illustrated to the nation that you, like California, believe popular vote is a valid and moral way to decide human rights. I'm really glad we didn't use this method back when legalizing interracial marr […]
      Jen
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    • Open messaging for the Open Web: Installing and configuring Mozilla Raindrop on Ubuntu 9.10 November 12, 2009
      Shared by Douglas call me when there's a repo...the ubuntu version of "pics or it didn't happen" By the time you read this Karmic Koala will have been released to a waiting world, but I couldn’t wait. A felicitous combination of a desire to do a distribution upgrade to the release candidate and a Twitter arriving on my laptop giving me a […]
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    • The Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act of 2009 November 9, 2009
      A BILL To address the concept of ‘‘Too Big To Fail’’ with respect to certain financial entities. 1     Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 4     This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Too Big to Fail, Too 5 Big to Exist Act’’. 6 SEC. 2. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON INS […]
      James Kwak
    • GNOME roadmap updated, version 3 pushed back to late 2010 November 11, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I'm not sure how I feel about this. My hope is GNOME does it, but Ubuntu doesn't pick it up for a while. Fedora, of course, will, because of their hemorrhagic-edge nature, which has it's place. The GNOME desktop environment is undergoing a significant transformation. The developers behind the open source project are working o […]
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    • Kaplan: Civil Society Requires Perpetual War November 11, 2009
      Shared by Douglas HELL YEAH! BLACK METAL! One of the best things about not working at The Atlantic anymore is not counting Robert Kaplan among my professional colleagues. Here’s his take on modern-day Europe: Europe, having been liberated from nuclear terror at the conclusion of the Cold War, proved unable to muster the gumption to deal with Yugoslavia on it […]
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Posts Tagged ‘spacewalk’

is a short blog on a blog a blog or a microblog?

Posted by douglasawh on June 9, 2009

This was going to be longer, but I’m exhausted…

I’ve been using Fedora 11 for about a month…ever since we determined we’d like to scale with our Linux program and Ubuntu doesn’t seem to give us that opportunity.  I am looking at OCS Inventory NG and GLPI (initialism is French) to stick with Ubuntu, but the set-up for OCS has been a pain so far.  I need to give it MySQL permissions, which will be a job once I’m home and remoted in or left for tomorrow.
Basically, we are looking for a Landscape replacement, so if you’ve got ideas, let me know.  eBox was previously suggested and that’s not going to work because it doesn’t do package management.

As always, thanks for reading, and thanks for helping out!

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Karmic Koala, Python, Ubuntu Spacewalk, etc.

Posted by douglasawh on May 8, 2009

Ok, it’s just get this out of the way early. There is no spacewalk for Ubuntu.  Well, there’s Landscape, but if you haven’t already discovered Landscape and know it’s proprietary, you probably weren’t looking very hard.  There is work for Debian support for spacewalk, but a student is undertaking that work and it looks like he probably has a year left.  So, it’s coming, probably, but not that soon.

I’m using Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 pre-alpha.  So far no problems except one time trying to update I got a dependency error.

I kinda like Supertux.  I don’t feel like I have a lot of time for gaming, but since gaming is a known lag point for Linux, I feel like I should take some time to learn some games so when people say there isn’t stuff I’ll have something intelligent to say.  Any suggestions?  I *love* Worms, but Wormux is far inferior.

I got a Python: Create – Modify – Resuse by Jim Knowlton on Wrox.  I haven’t had a chance to do much with it, but I’m excited about it.

So, the main reason I’m writing isn’t in the subject (bad form, I know).  At work we are looking for a solution for our travel laptops.  We are looking for rugged/semi-rugged/professional grade netbooks.  The concern many have (I’m not one of these people) is that the netbooks will get beat up.  There doesn’t seem to be good literature online about these machines.  Do semi-rugged netbooks exist?  We’re looking to stay around $300 but certainly not more than $450.  Any help is appreciated!

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