Archive for February 2006

#debian-tech, Redux

Back in September last year I blogged on #debian-tech, a new IRC channel for discussing Debian, but with a charter and some ops with a mandate to enforce it. At the time I wrote: It’ll probably be quite a bit different from #debian-devel on either OFTC or FreeNode; hopefully that’ll turn out to be in […]

Hit the Bzr

Item one: debbugs has moved from CVS to bzr. Item two: it’s well past time I came out in support of Mary Gardiner’s brief guide on pronouncing “bzr”. Item three: don’t you find the Sugababes’ latest pop ditty really quite catchy? Put them all together, and what do you get? Hit the bzr I’m busy […]

Charles Plessy, Copyright Vigilante

Apparently a week’s mail is a 166MB these days for me; I may be on too many lists. In the past week, 1.9kB of that mail were a couple of missives from Charles Plessy, related to one of my blog posts from last month. Apparently he’s embarassed at being associated with what he wrote, and […]

In review: linux.conf.au 2006

Probably the thing I most love about linux.conf.au is that every year is an experiment. In 2001 we changed its name, location and time, in 2002 we tried moving it outside Sydney and Melbourne and extended the programme to cover Monday and Tuesday, in 2003 we moved it to the furthest capital we could find […]