Wed, 30 Mar 2005
OSX Fanboys -- Uprising AGAIN!
Every now and again there seems to be a small uprising in the geek Mac
using community. Paul
Graham seems to be man behind this iteration of the uprising but he's
getting a lot of support from a number of smart people like David Heinemeier
Hansson (Rails) who has a couple of choice quotes, this one is my
favourite:
I would have a hard time imagining hiring a programmer who was still on Windows for 37signals. If you don't care enough about your tools to get the best, your burden of proof just got a lot heavier.
Firstly some anecdotal evidence, this seems to be a mostly developer point of view; find me some professional systems guys who buy into this. Secondly I have a personal requirement that doesn't seem to be getting anywhere with OSX: Virtual machines. Until they get VMWare, UML or something better than Virtual PC running on those shiny laptops they'll never be of any real use to me. I'm a huge VMWare fan, it lets me test my scripts and deployments on multiple operating systems while only forcing me to carry about a single Dell Lat. All I need now is an X86 port of HPUX and I'm set.
As an after thought this years FOSDEM was the first one where the number of Macs in the audience decreased to be replaced with Dells and IBM Thinkpads. Why? Who knows, maybe it's because chunks of the system are still closed source and proprietary? If I'm going to use a closed system I might as well use the one all my users have...
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Posted: 2005/03/30 11:57 | /misctech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Sun, 27 Mar 2005
Are Yearly PiPs Too Long?
I have my own Pragmatic
Investment Plan that I've been (remarkably slack) in following. It's
the first one I've done and it covers a whole year. Which I'm starting to
think is a mistake.
My circumstances have changed a fair bit since I wrote that PiP and a number of the tasks, such as learn Mono and write a CPAN module, are no longer very relevant to me and where I'm heading; although the fact I couldn't pick goals that were valid for a whole year might say something about me :). Instead of staying annual I'm thinking of doing shorter, three- six month PiPs, that allow me to keep a constant eye on what I'm doing while also being more focused and, probably, themed (RPM, Oracle, Apache etc.). I think the short term approach, with it's constant small corrections, is a better idea than waiting a whole year for feedback.
The obvious problem with this change is a lack of an overall career path, but I don't really have one of those yet anyway (I'm 25...). I suppose I should follow the conventional wisdom that every job should make you more prepared to work for yourself and go from there; but I'm not that happy with such a fuzzy end goal.
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Posted: 2005/03/27 12:19 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Vanity, PiP and Screenshotting
Over in my Pragmatic
Investment Plan I have two items under the topic of vanity. To put
something on my site worth reading and to get my site into the first 100
results returned by google.
Once my traffic hit a 100,000 unique (not obviously bots) visitors in under three months I considered the first one fulfilled. I'm now, and I realise how sad this is going to sound, very happy to report that at least for this very moment unixdaemon.net is in the top hundred results for the search phrase Dean; 99th to be exact. And yes I did take a screen-shot.
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Posted: 2005/03/27 02:11 | /unixdaemon | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Fri, 25 Mar 2005
Externally Edit Your Command Line
Most people know you can change the readline settings to either vi or
emacs style key-bindings, but far less people know you can actually open the
current, or a previous, command line in your editor of choice using
'fc'.
If you type 'fc' on the command line then the previous command will be open in the defined editor; if you want to select a further back command you can use 'fc pattern'. When editing is complete the edited commands are echoed and executed.
The actual editor to be opened can be defined in a number of ways, you can pass the '-e' option to 'fc' to set the editor; but you don't want to do this. If no '-e' is given, the value of the FCEDIT variable is used, and the value of EDITOR if FCEDIT is not set. If neither variable is set, vi is used (which is fine by me :)).
This isn't functionality you'll use on a daily basis, occasionally however it makes some very awkward command line tweaks a lot easier. For full details see "man bash", the "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" section.
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Posted: 2005/03/25 11:03 | /tools/commandline | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Mind Hacks at Foyles
Mind Hacks is an
O'Reilly book that examines specific operations of the brain and presents
simple experiments (do try this at home :)) to illustrate how it works and
how, occasionally, you can fool it.
O'Reilly and Foyles held a join event in the Foyles gallery in London where they had both of the books main authors do a short introduction to the topic and explain what the book was about. While it started off a little nervous and seemly unprepared they soon hit their pace and had the audience roped in and laughing in all the right places; although the word leopard was seriously over-used.
The talk itself was quite interesting (one of their examples was covered in Malcolm Gladwells Blink which was only recently released.) and the gallery itself was packed, barely any standing room was left and people were in among the stacks watching from the back. All-in-all it was a good night. All I need to do now is buy the book.
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Posted: 2005/03/25 10:49 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
GLLUG March 2005 -- The Slides
There were three talks at the March GLLUG and I can now happily link to
slides from two of them. Bruce Richardson's Linux HA and Martin Michlmayr's Quality
Issues in Free Software projects.
Hopefully these will soon be linked to on the GLLUG website. The first talk of the day, by Pete Ryland, involved a live demo and no slides so there isn't really anything to link to on that one; until we get the audio recordings sorted anyway.
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Posted: 2005/03/25 10:40 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
F-Secure Blacklight Windows Rootkit Detector Beta
F-Secure has released a blacklight
beta download that is available in both GUI and command-line versions.
The full Blacklight
details are now online and after a quick play it seems pretty nifty,
and most importantly, has a command-line version for automated deployment
and scanning. One to watch when it goes gold.
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Posted: 2005/03/25 10:31 | /security | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
jMemorize Flash Cards; Not Human Readable
Update: I was completely wrong about the cards being binary. Please see
my jMemorize
retraction for details.
I saw a piece on jMemorize over at unixreview and decided to have a little play. Quick download, runs from the Jar, OK GUI. Not bad on a cursory glance.
I then built a small set of cards as a sample and had a play. Finishing off I saved the card stack and decided to have a look at the file it created, I'd like to generate my flash-cards from existing docs I have so an easy to write format would be excellent. Except jMemorize saves its documents as a binary format! I'm assuming that it's just serialising the stack object out, which means I have no chance of ever exporting any effort I put in or mass generating decks.
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Posted: 2005/03/25 10:25 | /tools/gui | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Sun, 20 Mar 2005
Danger - Quicksand -- Short Review
I stumbled on to the site for Danger
- Quicksand - Have A Nice Day through one of the other blogs I read and
after reading the first couple of pages was sucked in.
The book doesn't cover anything really ground breaking but where it caught me was pointing out scenarios that I've been in and showing that I'm not the insane one for thinking they were odd or out of place. The author then tries to point out some of the available options. It's not a life changing book (well, not for me as I've lived through a lot of the topics it covers) but it is an interesting read; and there is a free pdf version for you to sample use to get your friends to buy a full paperback copy.
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Posted: 2005/03/20 23:57 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Clearing the In-tray
Between being ill, attending FOSDEM, putting a GLLUG on, actually
reviewing my review copies of books and a couple of other bits I can't
yet mention, the things requiring my attention have been not-so-slowly
piling up. I've taken a large chunk of this weekend to clear down the
multiple mail boxes, RSS feeds and saved book-marks that I was supposed to
read weeks ago.
One thing I have noticed is how much more productive I am when using client-side tools I can customise. I've stopped using rojo.com as my RSS aggregator of choice as I can't easily hack it to add filters, grep through the feeds etc. I'm in a similar position when reading mail. I read most of my mail using mutt (with a customised vim as the editor) and I can clear mails an order of magnitude faster than I can when reading and replying through gmail. I'm not against webapps but I need more access to them than they currently give me.
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Posted: 2005/03/20 17:25 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Sat, 19 Mar 2005
Follow the Bouncing Malware -- ISC Handler's Diary
Tom Liston wrote up an excellent (and scary!) analysis of what happens to
an unpatched machine when it goes to a less than reputable site. The full
details,
part 1,
part 2,
part 3 and
part 4 are well
worth a read. You'll be stunned at how much shite comes down from a single
executable that the user never even gets a choice whether to run.
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Posted: 2005/03/19 11:50 | /security | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Fri, 18 Mar 2005
Which package owns this file?
Filepkg.sh is another one of those scripts borne
of a personal itch. I'm spending a fair amount of time cleaning up both
Redhat and Debian boxes which have custom software installed, some of it
by hand and some via the package management system (we build the
packages ourselves).
One of the annoyances I've come across while determining which files are managed and which were left by us is that while both dpkg and rpm will tell you the package that owns a file, you need to provide the full path of the file you're asking about to get the information out. Well no more!
filepkg.sh takes a file name as an argument and tries to do a 'which' command on it. If this works then the full path is passed to the native package manager (filepkg.sh currently supports Redhat and Debian) and the owning package, if there is one, is returned. If filepkg.sh is called with a '-l' as the first argument or 'which' doesn't find a file with that name ('which' doesn't deal with config files for example) then the file is passed to 'locate'; it then looks up the file and passes it to the package manager to get a package name back.
The idea is simple, the code's easy to read and it works how I want it so feel free to do what you want with this little chunk of GPL'd code.
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Posted: 2005/03/18 00:22 | /unixdaemon | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Updating my Pragmatic Investment Plan -- 2005/03
I've finally found the time to do make some updates to my 2004 - 2005 Pragmatic Investment
Plan. I've posted links to some books reviews, added two technical
conferences and listed some scripts that have been down-loaded a fair few
times from my site (over 50 downloads was my requirement).
While I'm not even half way through the PiP yet (and time's a ticking!) I've started to think about the 2005-2006 version. I think I might include a challenge to build and provide content for a website that pays for itself (including hosting). That seems to be a more solid target than get X page impressions. I'll also up the number of people that have to use a piece of software before I consider it useful; raising it from 50 to 250 might be a challenge.
One thing I won't be including next year is the language of the year. My employment circumstances have changed a fair bit since I wrote the current version of the PiP and I'm doing a lot less development now. This makes spending enough time to get really comfortable with a language extremely hard.
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Posted: 2005/03/18 00:06 | /unixdaemon | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Wed, 16 Mar 2005
Using SANs and NAS review
I've just finished re-reading Using
SANs and NAS from O'Reilly. It's aged really well, provides an
excellent introduction to the common terms, principles and usages. Well
worth a read (and quite cheap these days).
You can now find the Using SANs and NAS book review on my main site or over at London PM.
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Posted: 2005/03/16 19:15 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
On the Reading Pile -- 20050315
I've just finished reading Using SANs and NAS by
O'Reilly, in short it's a great book for picking up the basic principles
behind both SANs, NAS and using fibre channel to connect them together. The
book doesn't really delve in to the technical details which means it's aged
pretty well.
Taking its place I have Cisco Routers for the Desperate which provides an quick and easy way to get up to speed on the basics of using Cisco routers. I'm not that far in yet but it's quite a useful, hands on read. I'm also paging through Forensic Discovery which, after only a couple of chapters, is proving to be a brilliant, thought provoking read.
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Posted: 2005/03/16 00:28 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
New Debian Installer
I've spent a lot of time today installing Debian boxes and testing build
documents. After using both the old and new installers (Sarge installer
RC2) I've come to a bundle of conclusions. The new installer hides a lot
of the complexity from most users (use expert mode to get it back). It
has a better screen for per-partition options (although it does make you
do each one on a separate screen) and it flows a lot better.
On the downside we have the need to set each partitions options on a separate screen (I mentioned it twice as it's a pain), the lack of a "wipe all data but save partition table" option and, most importantly, in expert mode IT PROMPTS FOR PCCARD EVERY SECOND BLOODY SCREEN. And it drove me nuts. After asking me almost a dozen times about the PCCARD it then picked up that the machine wasn't a laptop and asked if it could remove the PCMCIA packages. GAH!
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Posted: 2005/03/16 00:27 | /operatingsystems/linux/debian | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
CVSWeb, Easier Than you Think
Version control rocks, it allows you to roll back anything you're working
on to a previous version and remove all the late night weirdness you can't
remember adding. While it's hard to beat the power of the CVS command line
interface or the easy of use of TortoiseCVS there is a third option:
CVSWeb.
Written and maintained by FreeBSD people, CVSWeb provides an easy to use, web-based, interface to your CVS repositories. The install is simple, the frontend's easy to use and the cost is zero; so why ain't you using it?
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Posted: 2005/03/16 00:20 | /tools/online | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Tue, 15 Mar 2005
The Fade Anything Technique
I've made a couple of posts about the yellow fade technique but now I've
got a script to one-up it. The people over at Axentric (Adam Michela) have put
together a Fade Anything
Technique that does pretty much what you expect from its name.
The Fade Anything Technique demo is pretty impressive and the code is both readable and clean. For now it's my winner in this little competition.
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Posted: 2005/03/15 19:50 | /sites | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Sat, 12 Mar 2005
GLLUG Meeting -- March 2005 Happened!
As I mentioned before
I was heavily involved in putting this meeting together. And it seemed to
go pretty well!
We had three speakers but we had to shuffle the order around a bit, one was a little late and one was having technical problems. With very little time for preparation Pete Ryland stepped up and drew in the crowd. There were actually a couple of people from Ubuntu (and the Debian UK mailing list) which added a fair amount of clue to the audiences questions. I personally didn't get to see more than short snippets of the talk as I played host, chatting to different people, ensuring the speakers were OK and generally looking bemused. But it was fun.
While most things went well I did pick up on a couple of things I screwed up on:
- Get the speakers to arrive early to test equipment.
- Arrange talk durations with the speakers and work out a better way of communication with them than waving sheets of paper from the back of the room.
- Knowing when to kill question sessions.
- Get someone competent to do the introductions and notices. I suck in front of crowds.
All-in-all it went quite well, I might even be organising the next one!
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Posted: 2005/03/12 22:09 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Fri, 11 Mar 2005
Knowing Smart People Rules
The one thing I've learned over the years, although I'm only just
starting to realise exactly how much an effect it has on me, is that you
should try to surround yourself with smart people. They
keep you busy, entertained, challenged, constantly improving and every
now and again drop a nugget of pure gold into your lap; completely free
of charge. This weeks blinder was from Harry and has given me the
arse-kicking I needed.
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Posted: 2005/03/11 00:27 | /nottech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Thu, 10 Mar 2005
Duelling Banjos. But With cars. And no Banjos.
Walking around the back-streets near Oxford Street at night you often see
strange things but I saw one this week that gave me a chuckle. The first
car pulls up to the traffic lights, it's a shiny maroon Jaguar XK8 with
a white-guy decked out in gold sitting at the wheel. His head is bobbing
up and down and you can feel the base of Zed Bias "Neighbourhood", a
garage track that used to be very popular as a between song filler, from
across the street.
Suddenly the beat starts to feel subdued as you notice something else on the periphery of your hearing, an old white guy pulls up to the lights in a beaten up old Ford Escort and all you can hear is the conclusion of Tchaikovsky's 1812 being blasted out over who knows how much money worth of speakers. At least the young white guy had the sense to look embarrassed. I love this city.
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Posted: 2005/03/10 21:18 | /nottech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Easy Way to Collect Viruses
If you ever want to collect a cross-section of the more common Windows
email viruses then I've got a tip for you. Post a job advert on a couple of
the bigger jobsites (Jobserve, Monster etc.) and then wait a day for the
agents to start submitting CVs. Reply to them saying no thanks so you get
added to their local address books and then watch as every variant of
Bagel, Klez and all the other little bits of shite come flooding in to your
inbox. On the ironic side it does point out where to apply for if you're
after desktop support jobs :)
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Posted: 2005/03/10 20:44 | /misctech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Address Book Phishing and Information Leakage
Firstly let's define Phishing,
"The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an
established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into
surrendering private information that will be used for identity
theft." While most phishing attacks are done over the web consider
how they could be tailored to abuse email and local address books.
Lets consider a scenario, a non-technical (and busy) receptionist or assistant (Alice) sends a number of email's from her pet executive to certain people outside the company. Assume an accountant, insurance broker and some other highly paid but pointless consultant, you probably have about six names in your head right now :) For the sake of this example they are all public members of the company (AGM meetings, stockholders or even just pages showing previous customers).
The villain of our story, the dastardly Bob, purchases a domain similar to the one used by one of our external parties, Carol. He then sends an email to Alice (getting the name of the financial controllers PA isn't that hard...) from this dodgy domain with the name looking pretty much identical to Carols. Maybe an i is a 1 or something similar but awkward to notice. Bob then either plays it safe and just asks an innocuous question just to get a reply (wait for it :)) or tries to social engineer his way into having Carols original details removed. This is risky but makes the attack a lot more successful.
One day Alice takes some notes, types them in, cleans them up and then sends them to the external parties, including Carol. Since Alice has a nice, shiny and helpful mail client it added the address (which was received and replied to) to it's personal address book and offers it to her when she types in Car. In some cases it'll even hide the ones offered by the global address-book and allow you to get even nastier. The auto-complete will pop-up and most people will either select the top option out of habit or not even notice that their were multiple entries, muscle memory is a wonderful thing once you know how to exploit it.
Is this likely? Not really, it involves a lot of work for a difficult to execute attack. Could the local address book fiddling be added to an existing worm or malware to make it even worse? Quite easily. Still it was fun to think through; it's nice to be the (theoretical) attacker now and again.
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Posted: 2005/03/10 20:37 | /security | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
BT Eats Radianz Whole
You've probably seen it all over the news but Radianz has been
bought! For those that don't know of it, the Radianz network is an
extranet of financial institutions, it provides a fully redundant
infrastructure (if you want to join you are required to have dual lines
connecting you; each line has to be from a different approved supplier).
It's used for accessing financial applications where the unpredictable
nature of the Internet makes it undesirable but the commodity status of
it's applications and protocols make it the best alternative.
Radianz let you connect to their network and then provide all the infrastructure that net-users take for granted. It's basically a self contained Internet full of banks, insurance companies and financial institutes. BT buying them is interesting because it gives them control over a pretty locked in and wealthy market. I've dealt with a couple of Radianz people in the past and they were pretty clued up. For the sake of the UK job market lets hope BT don't start laying off techs...
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Posted: 2005/03/10 19:53 | /misctech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Wed, 09 Mar 2005
Simple Ruby Annotations
There is an interesting post by Aslak Hellesoy over at CodeHaus regarding simple
ruby annotations. While I've not really paid much attention to
annotations in Java (beyond Ted Newards occasional post on the subject) the
simplicity of this unofficial ruby implementation is making me want to dig
out my Pickaxe second edition and delve in again... Now if I only had
a reason to use annotations ;)
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Posted: 2005/03/09 22:29 | /misctech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Not the Official Yellow Fade Technique -- But it works.
A while ago I wrote a post on the very excellent Yellow
Face Technique (unixdaemon post), a slick bit of browser-based UI that
made it easier to track changes on the page.
The nice (and patient!) people over at i am jack's design were kind enough to send me a link answering my challenge for usable code. And it seems to work fine! Go and have a look at the Yellow Fade technique -- iamjacksdesign version code and demo; it's worth five minutes of your time and visitors to your site will thank you...
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Posted: 2005/03/09 22:17 | /tools/gui | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Painless Project Management with FogBugz Review
Writing this review was a little awkward. The book covers a topic I
needed to know about while not having a huge amount of interest in
learning, however it is an excellent book if you actually need to know
about FogBugz so I felt it was worth a review.
The book is end user focused and could be thought of as a "Missing Manual" for FogBugz. If you need a book to give an overview of what the product can do and introduce you to the basic and a number of the intermediate features then this is as good as it gets. If not then it ain't going to be much use.
The fact that I managed to go through the whole thing without getting bored is a testament to the quality and pace of the writing. The full Painless Project Management with FogBugz book review is now online.
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Posted: 2005/03/09 00:59 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Tue, 08 Mar 2005
Become Risk Adverse
This is seriously off-topic considering the sites usual content so if
you're looking for tech then stop right about... here. If you'd like to see
me publicly debug myself then carry right on!
At some point over the last few years I seem to have made a couple of bad choices. Firstly I've become risk adverse; and not just in the good "the production system is sacrosanct" way. In everything from "lets just go to the conference and see how it goes", through "I'll download it and have a play without reading a whole book on it first" up to not telling certain people how I really feel and missing the chance I've stopped just doing things.
Taking controlled risks and making mistakes is one of the best ways to learn (it's why you should never employ a sysadmin without a home network, it's better if they make their mistakes at home :)). An aversion to making mistakes also leads to a fear of failure, two factors that when combined are pretty much going to sink your career and any ambitions you might have had.
On to the second prong of my mistakes, accepting good enough without a struggle. I've worked in a couple of insane startups, I understand that sometimes, due to customer, time or business requirements, you make things just about good enough and then move on; I just don't think it should become established practise or something you blindly accept. And this is my issue, I've noticed I don't fight as hard as I used to when these kind of things come up and this is a personal failing I will not tolerate. I know why I'm letting the battles slip, you can only have the same discussion so many times before you end up accepting things as they are; and that's not who I want to be.
I've always taken pride in my work but over time I've lost a couple of the traits that made me good at what I do. At the same time I've kept the same level of pride and confidence, and I think that's at the core of what's bothering me; I've slipped from being on the top of my game to being a member of the supporting cast. I've never been a fan of people that accept good enough and now I find myself slipping down the slope. For my own sanity it's time to draw a line in the sand and buck up or get out. And today's as good a day as any.
Why have I put this in an entry? Bits of these thoughts have been buzzing around my head for the last week or so and now it'll hopefully clear out and let me replace it with more productive thoughts. It's also quite cathartic.
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Posted: 2005/03/08 06:23 | /nottech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Mon, 07 Mar 2005
Painless Project Management with FogBugz -- First Impressions
I've been lucky enough to get a review copy of Painless Project Management
with FogBugz (I'm not stalking Mike Gunderloy, honest! :)) and I've
enjoyed reading through the first four chapters. While I'm not sure I'm the
ideal target market, the book seems more for end users just picking up the
product, so far I've found it extremely well written.
My initial thoughts are that it's accessible, covers all the basic functions and could almost be one of the Missing Manual books from O'Reilly. I'm hoping to finish reading it tomorrow and I'll put a full review up then.
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Posted: 2005/03/07 22:45 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Wed, 02 Mar 2005
FOSDEM 2005 Survivor
Last weekend I ended up being (just about) well enough to to travel over
to FOSDEM in Brussels. I've done
FOSDEM every year and it's always excellent. The combination of great
talks, friendly atmosphere and getting to meet people you don't see often
enough mixed in with some heavy socialising, good meals and late nights
makes it my favourite event each year.
I was lucky enough to travel over with a rag-tag group of Linux geeks, Perl people, a RedHat employee and a Debian developer... Not exactly a cohesive group but it seemed to work! The trip over was very pleasant and included discussions on file-systems, clustered locking, the rugby and a lot of very bad puns.
It's customary on the Friday night to meet up with the local crowd, any speakers that have already made it over, the rest of the London crew and the Debian party animals in the centre of town for drinks, food, more drinks and then more drinks before waddling back to the hotels. I didn't get to stay out as late as I usually do (not sure why I normally book a hotel with a bed to be honest! :)) but the pub was jumping and the people were great.
Over the next few days I'm going to try and combine my notes with links to the speakers slides and give some details of the talks I attended for those of you that couldn't make it.
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Posted: 2005/03/02 23:43 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
GLLUG March 12th 2005 Meeting
I've been a
GLLUG member for a good few years now, I've attended
meetings, worked on the stall at the London Linux Expos and even given a
talk at one of the meetings (I'd like to say sorry for that...) but
the March 2005
GLLUG meeting is the first meeting I've organised.
With the able (and essential) assistance of Bruce "way too deep to have a blog or site for people to link to" Richardson we've got a grand total of three speakers and are hosting the meeting at Fotangos offices. Martin Michlmayr, the current Debian project lead will discuss Quality in OpenSource Development, Pete Ryland is going to give an overview of Ubuntu and Bruce Richardson is going to discuss Linux HA systems.
The venue's good, the talks are going to be great and I'm going to be gracious (as host :)) so if you're around in London on that day and like Linux come and say hello. We'll be going for food and beer afterwards...
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Posted: 2005/03/02 23:18 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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