My newfound love for Liferea has caused me to check how this blog appears in it. EasyBlog works quite nicely overall, but doesn’t appear to play terribly nicely with feed readers. It was trying to tell my feed that everything in it had just been updated, which isn’t true. I… Read More
I am, once again, late to the party. Last time it was mp3s. This time it is RSS feeds. This site has had one for a while, but only because the software I use to provide the blog section happens to support it without my doing anything. Until this week,… Read More
There is a kind of software in the world; a hidden, special kind; a kind that lives a secret life. This software lives inside companies all over the world. It coats the innards of servers, flows through networks, huddles in dark corners, unseen by all but a select few. No… Read More
I have a fairly technical job, but most of my time is spent writing, and reading, documents. Much of it is email, but the largest part of my work output is more formal documentation: design documents, HOWTO guides, network diagrams. I currently work with a team of a dozen or… Read More
An interesting discussion ensued regarding a presentation at the Open Source Developer’s Conference over on Richard’s blog at mechanical cat. Anthony Baxter also provided an opinion, and since I’ve presented at this conference a couple of times, and Unicity was a sponsor last year, I’m inspired to add my 2… Read More
I’ve just read an article from Harvard Business Review called Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology. I’m not familiar with Andrew McAfee’s work, but according to his biography he has a background in mechanical engineering and management. I’m not sure what level of involvement he has had with implementing… Read More
I have recently had cause to re-evaluate the license I use for a piece of software I wrote a few years ago. BEEPy is a Python network communications library I wrote to teach myself Python several years ago. Well, when I say wrote, I mean wrote to the point that… Read More
I’ve made a lot of progress with seafelt 2.1 lately. I managed to implement the TCP polling framework with some working examples in a frenzy of activity over two weekends and about 40 hours all together. The big bonus for me was really learning how Jim’s backend framework actually works.… Read More
I just set up MythTV to stream video from the desktop to my laptop. I’ve had to muck about with the playback resolution because the poor little laptop just doesn’t have the hamsters to playback HDTV at full resolution. It’s also running over 100MiB wired ethernet, not GigE. It’s quite… Read More
Bill Moore came to visit us today. Bill works with Jeff Bonwick on the Solaris kernel, specifically on ZFS, the new uber-filesystem that runs on Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. It’s still a beta product, really, but it works quite nicely as is. There are all sorts of great features in… Read More
