Marcel Gagne is starting a new series with the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) called Open Source Journeys. I'm thrilled to announce that I'm Marcel's first guest in this series:

Open Source Journeys: In Conversation With Craig Maloney

I hope you'll give it a listen.

Thanks Marcel for being such an …

Here are the slides for the Getting Things Done Under Linux that I presented at Penguicon 2014:

Getting Things Done Under Linux slides

(And if you're interested I've posted the source for the slides up on github: https://github.com/craigmaloney/gtd_under_linux)

If you ever run into "too many authentication attempts" on sshing to a host, you'll want to add "IdentitiesOnly yes" in your ssh config. GNOME (Ubuntu et. al) helpfully throw all of your keys under .ssh into ssh-agent on login. It will then try each and every one of them …

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 …

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 …