How come I can't buy these cheaply yet?

By Gary at 09:31 PM in Sci/Tech | Comments (0)  

I've resisted commenting on the SCO controversy until now. In anycase, IBM has finally come out and responded pointing out SCO's own distribution of their alleged code. I'm glad someone finally came out and said this. The whole thing is pure Linux FUD.

A couple guys at work just got back from the Ottawa Linux Symposium where apparently there was little discussion on SCO and its implications. That sort of complacency is interesting and probably warranted, but somehow I think at LinuxWorld next week this won't be the case. What else to expect at a marketing driven event? We'll have to see.

Anyway, come visit me in the Dell booth.

By Gary at 10:10 PM in Linux | Comments (0)  

I'm sure by now we've all heard about flash mobs-- organized spontaneous meet-ups of large numbers of people. First created in New York, they've now spread to even Minneapolis. So, the question is, where is Austin in all of this? Surely in this tech-haven, this could be put on quite easily. Well, just throwing this out there. Austin-bloggers is a highly connected group .... anyone have any good original ideas (and oh yeah, enough people to invite to make it interesting)?

By Gary at 11:28 AM in Miscellaneous | Comments (24)  

Interested in the Wesley Clark for President movement?

The grass roots efforts in Clark's favor are mobilizing. If you are interested in learning more or becoming an active participant, check out their yahoo group site. Of course, for all the latest news, there's also the Wesley Clark blog.

By Gary at 08:23 PM in World | Comments (0)  

on the lighter side of things, i'll keep a look out for someone wearing this shirt:

By Gary at 06:10 PM in Miscellaneous | Comments (0)  

Been away from the blog lately mostly moving into my new place and getting it setup. Well, now with everything in order and me blogging via my new 802.11a setup, its only appropriate to include some links on the impending desktop linux explosion.

Walmart sells SuSE desktops

and

Munich makes Microsoft squirm

The latter story isn't really news, but its an interesting in-depth account. Now if only it was actually easy to setup my home wifi we'd be well on our way.

By Gary at 10:20 PM in Linux | Comments (0)  

Matt Domsch and I are holding a BOF session about DKMS at the upcoming LinuxWorld. Get more details here.

By Gary at 10:45 AM in Linux | Comments (0)  

DKMS version 0.32.04 is now available (tarball or RPM)

* Added support for 2.5 kernels. Specifically, if it detects that you are building for >2.4, it uses a generic make command (make -C $kernel_source_dir SUBDIRS=$build_dir modules) which makes use of advances in the 2.5 kernel series. Also, it doesn't do a make dep (though for SuSE, it still does a make CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=1 dep since I didn't know whether to take this out or not...advice?).

* Added SuSE initrd support. Now, if it detects the SuSE type mk_initrd command, it modifies /etc/sysconfig/kernel if REMAKE_INITRD is set and then calls mkinitrd which should remake all initrds which it knows about. Only during the final removal of a module are the changes removed from /etc/sysconfig/kernel. Because of this methodology, mkinitrd will often return exit status 9 since it attempts to remake all initrds and some kernels don't have the module you just added.

* Changed the kernel preparation stuff so that it does UnitedLinux prep stuff if it finds /boot/vmlinuz.version.h, but otherwise will do RedHat/generic prep routines.

By Gary at 10:51 AM in Linux | Comments (0)  

Looks like the slashdot-effect traffic is finally starting to cool down. As a follow-up, given this comment the Axim uptime and usability has dramatically increased. Basically, if you go into Settings > Light & Power > Suspend after, and set it to "never", the panics mostly go away. Looks like they weren't kidding when they said suspend was broken.

Also, a slight rant from something I've learned from this heavy traffic experience. If you run a professional site dedicated to a certain field with a professional looking interface, then you should probably be smarter than to steal bandwidth from others (especially smaller non-commercial websites). In this case, a couple sites (mobi-mania.com and mypdacafe.com) both put my axim pic on their front page-- meaning that for every hit their site got, I too got one for 40K. The term "netiquette" sounds somewhat antiquated by now, but come on guys. Host your own images if you're gonna put them on the forefront of your site. Many thanks to http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com for their courteousness.

By Gary at 04:38 PM in Linux | Comments (0)