It's hard to remember a time before distributed version control systems became the norm. When Git, bzr, and hg started being used there was a culture shock. Where does the central repository live? Who can commit, and to where? How to I merge several developers' work together into one repo …
read moreScratch an itch, pull the scab
This morning, I had a problem with my sound not working on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine. Strange, as it usually works. Whenever I'd log out, I'd hear the familiar Ubuntu conga "dadadump", so sound was working, just not for my user account.
So, I rebooted my machine, and reminded …
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I'll be presenting "A Brief History of UNIX" at MUG on December 13th (That's the second Tuesday of the month, for those of you wishing to make MUG meetings a regular part of their monthly diet). There's an awful lot of history surrounding the UNIX operating system, and my hope …
read moreOhio Linuxfest 2011 wrap-up
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Wow,
what an amazing time at Ohio Linuxfest 2011. Rick and I both staffed the
Lococast.net / Ubuntu Michigan Loco table for
most, if not all, of Saturday, and handed out over 300 business cards to
all of the folks who passed by. Thank you to everyone who stopped to …Ubuntu Global Jam: Against adversity
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Neither
rain, nor shine, nor start of school year, nor first University of
Michigan football game could deter our intrepid band of Ubuntu Michigan
Loco-folk from braving their way through the crowded streets of Ann
Arbor on first-game-day. While Michigan Stadium swelled to contain the
football faithful, we hunkered down …