Monthly Archives: June 2006

grippe

Anyone else at GUADEC having this wonderful experience with a cold? I know Luis is affected. And I hear others at the conference are also getting their butts kicked.

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OLPC BOF Moved to Thursday at 12

We’ve moving the OLPC BOF that’s scheduled at GUADEC from Thursday at 5pm to Thursday at high noon. We’re replacing Miguel’s Gtk# & Mono Q&A. Tell your friends!

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i heart ice cream

Turns out that, yes, this place is pretty good. Real chunks of fruit in the ice cream.

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where are we going with the laptop?

Red Hat and the One Laptop per Child folks have been slowly iterating on both putting together a working operating system and taking the first baby steps in figuring out how to build an envionment for kids. A few weeks … Continue reading

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no tolls on the internet

Everyone is posting about this, but I need to do so as well. There’s an excellent piece in the Washington Post from Lawerence Lessig about the importance of net neutrality. I’ve worked at Red Hat for a long time, so … Continue reading

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eben’s keynote is up

Eben Moglen’s keynote is now up. It’s insanely great. “It is, of course, a revolution. That’s the first thing. It’s a friendly revolution. You know. You’re the beneficiaries of it.”

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a very different conference

I just wanted to echo what I just read in Bob Lord’s entry about the summit. The kinds of keynotes that we see at this corporate event are different than I’ve ever seen at a conference. Yes, but we talked … Continue reading

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corey keynote is up

Corey Doctorow’s Keynote from the Red Hat Summit is up. It’s great. Download it. Give it to your friends.

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how have people been using mugshot?

It’s pretty cool to actually see people using mugshot in the real world and how they use it. People always end up using it for things you didn’t expect. Here are a few things I’ve observed: Red Hat Summit 2006 … Continue reading

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sound on the Laptop

Yesterday I spent a few hours down at the One Laptop per Child office and got sound working on the laptop. Marcelo had to make a patch to the ac97 codec and once I ran the maze to find the … Continue reading

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