peter n. m. hansteen writes in to say if you are not quite up to speed with pf and related tools yet or if you have one or more colleagues you dont have time to train in basics yourself you might want to send them away to learn a bit. in fact you can send them to london and get a better version back. the ukuug is organizing an intensive fullday pf tutorial featuring book of pf author peter hanste...
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screenshot of ripplerap in action i use a different notetaking tool for almost every conference i attend. i try and use ones which have both off and online components for allowing me to write if theres no connectivity but allowing me to publish easily if there is. at fowa 2008 after discovering it shortly before opentech and then talking to the osmosoft guys about it i used ripplerap. so some ...
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for those of you who were not able to make it to opentech 2008 or want to listen again audio recordings of many of the talks are now available from the opentech website. im not sure if other talks are going to be uploaded soon the session i was chairing was definitely recorded though the microphones were a bit iffy but the ones which are already online are well worth listening to.......
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ppt federation at flickr doing billions of queries per day flickr 16g 6 15k raid 10 em64t rhel 4 deadline io swappiness 0 . swap flickr swappiness 0 echo 0 procsysvmswappiness swap swap tendency mapped ratio2 distress vm swappiness vm swappiness 60. linux kernel 2.6 linux swap innodb o direct swap swapoff a oom swap ram swap 4g linux g kernel ...
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spring 2009 is the next annual ukuug large installation systems administration lisa conference organised by yours truly with help and assistance from many others. scheduled to be held in london from the 24th to the 26th march 2009 venue to be confirmed this time the conference will be focusing on security and system administration. the call for papers is now open so if you are interested in giving...
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the open rights group have recently launched a fundraising drive under the name orggro and the slogan protect your bits. conceived three years ago at opentech 2005 with 1000 people pledging 5month in financial support the org is often seen as the uks equivalent to the electronic frontier foundationa wellknown us lobby group working for digital freedom. at present the organisation seems to be doi...
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no uses wep originally uploaded by manuel pinot aka talishte. es de suponerse que aunque llevas nueve aaos trabajando como sysadmin en ninguno de ellos te han celebrado tu daa a menos que tu jefe sea un ex sys admin pero por lo general es un phb o tal vez porque eres un bofh tus compaaeros no quieren hacerlo a pesar de que sabes quienes son los lusers que aceden a pr0n en la oficina como...
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linux 2008 is the latest in a series of conferences run by the ukuug. this year it is going to be held in manchester so i will probably be around and the call for papers is now available. the closing date is the 18th august so you have some time to submit an abstract and the final papers are due by the 20th october which coincidentally is my birthday.......
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last saturday i went to opentech in the afternoon to hear ben laurie bob blakley and alec muffett pontificate on security. and a good pontification it was then on sunday met up with bob again together with his frighteningly smart daughter and alec for brunch in covent garden. the conversation was whirling around networks identity relationships but not exclusively so. i will write about that in a ...
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as chris has already written about saturday saw the return of open tech the british geek conference after an absence of three years. i went along hungover like a bastard and a good time was had by all. some quick highlights danny obrien excellent as always somehow turning the open rights group talk into a revivalist meeting as bill thompson led a movement of those not yet saved to come forward an...
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i spent my saturday at the opentech conference in london and it was a day well spent. i do have to learn to go and listen to new things though although talks from tom morris who i later met for the first time simon willison and gavin bell were interesting those were subjects i already knew about or were aware about to a fair degree. what did strike me however were some of the last sessions by tom ...
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photo of kim plowright speaking at open tech 2008 shared by oreilly gmt. i went to open tech 2008 on saturday. open tech describes itself as an informal low cost oneday conference on technology society and lowcarbon living featuring open source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at at which anyone can have a go surely if youre wondering about its heritage before open tech 2...
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heres the presentation nick and i gave at open tech 2008 yesterday. view with comments at slideshare i really enjoyed the whole event and will try to put up some notes up about it tomorrow.......
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its been a long long day but at least i got to watch the final episode of dr who when i got home. i wasnt as inspired by the talks as other people seem to have been the ones i attended seemed reasonably prosaic although i did make a couple of notes to follow up on later. i think this means i need to change the criteria i use for choosing which talks i go to. the social aspect was great though the...
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opentech schedule no idea if presentations will be available or on presenters blogs etc. i found the sessions really useful i dont think i get nervous when attending conferences as an attendee but i was more bothered this time being new to higher level development and having seen how some online communities can be with newbies but concerns were unfounded everybody that i spoke to was great inte...
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im at this tomorrow if you see me stop me and say hello.......
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ill be giving a talk at open tech 2008 on saturday 5th july about some of the work i do at the open knowledge foundation. the talk is entitled opening data and its rough subject is indicated by the blurb we all want more open data to analyse and mashup be it for urban planning or to better understand 12th century canon law. but how do we go about reaching data nirvana what are the obstacles an...
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open tech 2008 5th july in london. open tech 2008 is an informal low cost oneday conference on technology society and lowcarbon living featuring open source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at. tags events london opensource opendata open technology geek conference syll abus at this stage of the tutorial you have set overarching goals organized content developed...
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... of sessions at this event which is an informal oneday conference on technology society and lowcarbon living. doors open at 10am the event starts at 10.30am. tickets are 5 on the door. see httpwww.uk uug.orgeve ntsopentec h2008 local groups news we now have local groups in 44 of the 69 proposed locations for interrogation centres of which just 3 have yet to open. parliament ary answe...
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this year its changing and its going to get more fun if it gets easier to develop mobile apps theres millions of more possibilities for mobile learning too. there is an interesting article from european communications this week summarising past current mobile development activity and possibilities about how it could become easier. 1. why isnt it easy now in the preface of designing the mobile us...
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hurrah the opentech conference is returning to london i wish i was in town for it but im going to be overseas. coorganizer sam smith sez at the last opentech in 2005 the open rights group was started. for 2008 the conference includes a state of the nation from org and no2id describing where weve come from and a look forward to where were going. also in the lineup is power to the people power ...
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sms found a brilliant sms tutorial from developers home where i first learnt some xhtmlmp and basic when trying out mobile web coding last year. understand some of the differences between how to send sms between phones and pc but have temporarily stalled because in order to practice sms commands need to buy a gprs modem and im still trying to find the right one i need. predictive text still no...
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