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Mon, 18 Oct 2010
ask.debian.net Members of the Debian project have started a new user oriented service at ask.debian.net. It lets users ask specific questions and find answers, while also providing rating systems and badges for users. It allows Debian Developers and other contributors to easily stay in touch with the community.
posted 21:12 [/linux] permanent link Sat, 16 Oct 2010 Sansa e280 update
posted 04:14 [/linux] permanent link Thu, 14 Oct 2010 Now that's what I call good timing My new sansa e280 is a v2 original firmware device, my old one is a v1; both are fully supported by rockbox. I will try to make the time to document the unbricking procedure as well as what is involved in installing rockbox. I am thinking of getting a clip+ as a new back-up device if I cannot revive the old e280. posted 23:35 [/linux] permanent link My favorite media player I have had several good media players in the past: (in chronological order) an iriver T30 (which survived a pocket full of melted chocolate), two iaudio u3's, and a sansa e280. Each of these was the best player I had ever owned until purchasing the next. My current player of choice is a refurbished sansa e280. I have had this player for almost two years now. With Rockbox installed it's a VERY nice media player. It has a removable battery, accessable by removing 4 phillips head screws from the back of the metal case, and a micro sdhc slot (capable of accepting a 32 gig micro sdhc cards after installing Rockbox), and 8 gig of built-in storage. This is my everyday media player and I love it. A couple of days ago, I turned it on only to be greeted with a black display and a backlit thumbwheel. This was easily fixed though by removing and replacing the battery. Fixed or not, the black display was indicator enough for me that it might be time to purchase a new/replacement media player for when or if this one did decide to give up the ghost for good. I don't think that time is coming soon though. I really think that this player will last me a long time yet (as this is the only problem I have had with it in nearly two years), and will probably only have to replace the battery before having to buy a replacement player. Rather being safe than sorry though, I went ahead and purchased a 2nd refurbished sansa e280 for $49.99 from TigerDirect, and will be putting Rockbox on it as soon as it arrives. If you go to TigerDirect and they are out of stock of the refurbished sansa e280, check back often as they get a number of these in from time to time. Since this player is no longer in production supplies are limited. Get one while they last. What is Rockbox and why should you run it?
posted 03:46 [/linux] permanent link Fri, 28 May 2010 SouthEast LinuxFest Announces Full List of Speakers Here is the full list of speakers: Jono Bacon - KEYNOTE: Community Manager for the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, Canonical employee, former co-host of the LUGradio podcast, and current co-host of the FLOSS Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte. Metal Rockstar! Max Spevack - KEYNOTE: Manager of Red Hat's community architecture team, and former Fedora Project Leader, Max now defines and executes Red Hat's global community strategy. Jon Maddog Hall: After forty years in the commercial computer industry, thirty years of that with Unix, and using Linux since he met Linus Torvalds in 1994, maddog has been a programmer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, educator, author and trouble-maker as both a supplier of software and a user of software. Wietse Zweitze Venema: Author of the Postfix mail system and the TCP Wrapper, and co-author of the Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) for forensic analysis, the Satan network scanner, and a book on Forensic Discovery. Wietse is an IBM research staff member. He received awards from the Free Software Foundation, the System Administrator's Guild (SAGE), the Netherlands UNIX User Group (NLUUG), as well as a Sendmail innovation award. Russ Woodman K5TUX: Senior systems and network administrator with more than 20 total years of experience in BSD UNIX, Solaris, Linux and Cisco networking devices. Russ is co-founder and co-host of the "Linux in the Ham Shack" podcast as well as an avid audio engineering hobbyist, amateur radio enthusiast and independent music promoter. He is also a Linux Journal contributor and guest on various well-known Linux- and FOSS-related podcasts. Brian Smith: Brian Smith is CTO of DNS.com and a long-time FOSS supporter and group organizer in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Daniel Chen: Dan Chen is an Ubuntu core developer who has lost many a grey hair on nontrivial portions of his spare time struggling with audio hardware enablement and integration issues across Ubuntu derivatives. Andrew "Drew" Jensen: Six year OpenOffice.org (OO.o) community member, co-Founder OO.o User Services forums and current co-Lead of the Database (Base) QA team. Owner of BaseAnswers.com, offering FOSS based document automation services. 25+ years experience in commercial software development. Pete Graner: Pete Graner is the Kernel & Hardware Enablement manager at Canonical, where he leads the Ubuntu Kernel team and is responsible for the hardware enablement of the x86 & ARM kernels for Ubuntu. Prior to working at Canonical Pete worked at Red Hat as the Base Operating Systems manger. Pete has been developing on Linux since the mid 90's. Amber Graner: Amber Graner is an active Ubuntu community member and organizer who encourages everyone around her to participate, support, and learn about Ubuntu and Open Source. With a smile and a sense of humor, Amber reminds people that there is a place for everyone in the Ubuntu community ¿ regardless of technical skill level (or lack thereof). She is constantly looking for people, places, and events within the Ubuntu community that help inspire Ubuntu users to participate actively within the Ubuntu community. A few of the hats Amber wears are blogger and contributor to Ubuntu User Magazine, Ubuntu Women Project Team Leader, Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, North Carolina LoCo Team Lead as well as wife and mom. Vincent Batts: A recent addition to the Slackware development team, Vincent is an avid Open Source advocate in both the commercial arena as well as the community. Rikki Kite: Rikki Kite is the Associate Publisher of Linux Pro Magazine and Ubuntu User, and she's the former Managing Editor of Sys Admin Magazine and UnixReview.com. Rikki blogs about women in open source at: linuxpromagazine.com/roseblog. John Curran: John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception through early 2009. He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate. Keith Bergelt: Keith Bergelt is the chief executive officer of Open Invention Network (OIN), the collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux. In this capacity, he is directly responsible for enabling, influencing and defending the integrity of the Linux ecosystem. Central to the achievement of his goals is the acquisition and transfer of patent rights designed to permit members of the Linux ecosystem to operate free of the threat of assertion and litigation from those whose business models are antithetical to innovation and global economic growth in information technology and computing. Bryan Smith: Bryan A Smith is a Debian Gnu/Linux and BSD enthusiast, hardware hacker and Systems Engineer. Bryan has used Open Source Operating Systems since the days of Red Hat 5 Hurricane. He contributes to several Open Source projects and has helped launch several startup ISP¿s based in his area using Open Source software as a framework. Bryan is currently the Chief Technical Officer at Tacit Labs Inc and Lead Systems Administrator at Dreamfish.com Global Collaborative. Tara Spalding: CMO at GroundWork Open Source and advisory chairperson at MonitoringForge.org, Tara brings attention to how community based innovation betters IT professional's lives. Matt Ray: Community Manager for the open source network monitoring platform Zenoss, Matt is also one of the founders of the Texas Linux Fest. David Mandala: Mobile Team Manager for the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, Canonical employee, has been involved in Linux since 1994 and spends his day helping craft the Ubuntu Linux distribution releases for ARM. He has been working in the embedded space for more then 30 years starting as a hardware engineer and software developer. Brandon Checketts: Has worked for several web hosting companies and has worked to develop, improve, and maintain hundreds of LAMP-based websites and applications. Ian Weller: "Wiki Czar" of the Fedora Project, community statistics organizer, Red Hat intern and recent high school graduate, Ian is productively lost on a daily basis. Celeste Lyn Paul: Celeste Lyn Paul is a designer, researcher, and computer geek, although not always in that order. She is an open source design advocate who aims at improving the quality of FLOSS software by educating developers about design and working with them on design challenges in their projects. She is involved in the greater FLOSS Human-Computer Interaction community, helps lead the KDE Usability Project, and serves on the KDE e.V. Board of Directors. More information about her may be found at www.celestelynpaul.com. Steven Dake: Steven Dake has been involved in Open Source Linux for over 12 years professionally. Steven Dake was involved in the creation of the industry first Carrier Grade Linux software solution at MontaVista Software. While working at MontaVista Software, Mr. Dake initiated the openais project which has been used in thousands of designs worldwide for high availability since 2002. In 2008, Mr. Dake founded the Corosync Cluster Engine project to radically improve the performance and quality based upon real-world experiences of the openais project. He maintains this project full time with a small group of other high availability experts in the open source community. Joshua Drake: Joshua D. Drake, commonly referred to as JD, is a Major PostgreSQL.Org Contributor, President of United States PostgreSQL, and ahich specialises in PostgreSQL work, and in 2009 he founded PostgreSQL Experts Inc, of which he is a director, along with a number of other PostgreSQL luminaries. Andrew has worked in IT, mainly on Linux and Unix platforms, for 25 years. Scott Boss: Senior Storage Engineer at a Fortune 500 Financial company. Active speaker in the Atlanta open source community. And overall just a big geek. Montario Fletcher: Montario Fletcher is currently a Mathematics teacher who helps make computing more accessible to high school students with Linux. He has a a B.A. in Computer Science from Mercer University and a Master of Information Systems degree from University of Phoenix. He is also pursuing a Ph.D in Educational Technology from Walden University. He hopes to provide freedom from school systems that cannot budget for proprietary software by showing them open source alternatives. Nick Owen: Nick is the CEO & Co-founder of WiKID Systems, a dual-source two-factor authentication system. Nick has written about and spoken on the virtues of getting rid of static passwords since he was 3. Doug Vann: Doug Vann has been called the Johnny Appleseed of Drupal. When he's not developing feature rich web applications in Drupal, he is traveling the globe training others to do the same. James Schweitzer: James Schweitzer is an IT Specialist at IBM who has the privilege of deploying Linux and other Open Source solutions. He has performed large scale deployments in retail, education, medical, financial and entertainment fields. Steven Edwards: Currently Systems Engineer at Windstream on the Systems Architecture Team. Former Senior Technical Support Engineer and later Software Quality Assurance Engineer at CodeWeavers, Inc. Developer and unofficial Project Liaison for the Wine and ReactOS projects. Phillip Pfeiffer: Professor and associate graduate coordinator for East Tennessee State University's department of computer and information sciences, and principal architect of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Resource Allocation and Tracking System s been involved in some way. Bradley Kuhn: Policy Analyst and Technology Director at the Software Freedom Law Center, as well as President of the Software Freedom Conservancy and Director of FSF. Bradley is dedicated to promoting the benefits of licensing that ensure software freedom, as well as defending it from potential threats and abuses from proprietary software. Klaatu von Schlecten Apfel: Host of the Bad Apples and Fedora Reloaded podcasts and correspondent for Hacker Public Radio, Klaatu is a multimedia artist and maintainer of slackermedia.info and the SlackBuilds for LiVES, freetalk, and HandBrake. He has written articles for Linux Journal and Linux Identity magazines. Dru Lavigne: Director at the FreeBSD Foundation, she has written several books on BSD. Pat Davila: Co-host of both MythTVCast, and the The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS) podcasts. C. Tyler McAdams: Project Architect at the LinuxDNA project, Tyler puts a whole new meaning to fast by having Linux kernels compiled under the Intel C/C++ Compiler (ICC). Mackenzie Morgan: A developer and bug wrangler for the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. When she is not quashing bugs with extreme prejudice, she's probably improving the end user experience in a variety of areas. Alan Hicks: Slackware developer who also co-wrote SlackBook. Dann Washko: Co-host of the The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS), Dann also is a wealth of practical knowledge in all areas of desktop Linux. Stephen Spector: Community manager for Xen, which allows multiple operating systems to be run on the same computer through hardware supported virtualization. Daniel Walsh: Daniel leads the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) project and is also involved in secure virtualization. Paul Frields: Fedora Project Leader and Chairman of the Fedora Project Board. Paul is involved in seemingly everything in Fedora from package maintenance to security to documentation. Michael DeHaan: Michael currently works for Reductive Labs (now Puppet Labs), who develops puppet, a configuration mathe Asterisk open source PBX development team. He was Asterisk's first release maintainer when Asterisk 1.0 was released. David Vossel: David joined the Asterisk development team at Digium in January of 2009 after graduating from Tennessee Tech University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. David has contributed to many important areas of the Asterisk code. Some of his most notable work includes the addition of a test framework and a major security update for the IAX2 protocol. In addition, there will be 30 exhibitors on the expo floor (Saturday and Sunday), 2 parties (Friday and Saturday), 6 rooms dedicated for BoF sessions, as well as 4 concurrent events at the 2010 SouthEast LinuxFest including BSDA Certification (Sunday), UbuCon (Friday and Sunday), Fedora Activity Day (Sunday), and DrupalCamp (Sunday). DrupalCamp will feature the following speakers: Doug Vann, Adam A. Gregory, Brent Ratliff, Isaac Sukin, Sheena Donnely, Steven Jackson, Tom Sliker, Ken Rickard, Mark Shropshire, Dante Taylor,and Roger Soper. Ubucon will feature the following speakers: Jono Bacon, Rick Spencer, Jeremy Foshee, Pete Graner, and Amber Graner.
posted 01:59 [/linux] permanent link Tue, 06 Apr 2010 SouthEast LinuxFest Announces Partial Speaker List Announced With less than 90 days until the 2010 SouthEast LinuxFest, event organizers are proud to announce 22 speakers known worldwide for their work in the Linux and free/libre open source software communities. These speakers include: Ryan "Icculus" Gordon: Known as "the entire Linux gaming industry", Ryan has ported major commercial game titles to Linux, including Prey, Unreal Tournament, and countless others. D. Richard Hipp: Author of SQLite, Fossil, and CVSTrac. SQLite has become ubiquitous and is used everywhere from Mozilla Firefox to the iPhone. Tarus Balog: Lead Developer and CEO of The OpenNMS Group, which has provided enterprise grade network management software developed under the open source model. Wendy Seltzer: Member of the board of directors for the Tor Project Founder of Chilling Effects and OpenLaw projects, and liaison to ICANN. Former attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It if deals with rights, freedom, or privacy in the digital realm, odds are Wendy is or has been involved in some way. Jono Bacon: Community Manager for the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, Canonical employee, former co-host of the LUGradio podcast, and current co-host of the FLOSS Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte. Metal Rockstar! Bradley Kuhn: FLOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director at the Software Freedom Law Center, as well as President of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Bradley is dedicated to promoting the benefits of open source licensing, as well as defending it from potential threats and abuses from proprietary software. Klaatu von Schlecten Apfel: Host of the Bad Apples and Fedora Reloaded podcasts and correspondent for Hacker Public Radio, Klaatu is a multimedia artist and maintainer of slackermedia.info and the SlackBuilds for LiVES, freetalk, and HandBrake. He has written articles for Linux Journal and Linux Identity magazines. Dru Lavigne: Director at the FreeBSD Foundation, she has written several books on BSD. Pat Davila: Co-host of both MythTVCast, and the The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS) podcasts. C. Tyler McAdams: Project Architect at the LinuxDNA project, Tyler puts a whole new meaning to fast by having Linux kernels compiled under the Intel C/C++ Compiler (ICC). Barry Grundy: A supervisory criminal investigator (special agent) with the US Federal Government, Barry specializes in Linux forensics and its practical applications. Mackenzie Morgan: A developer and bug wrangler for the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. When she is not quashing bugs with extreme prejudice, she's probably improving the end user experience in a variety of areas. Alan Hicks: Slackware developer who also co-wrote SlackBook. Dann Washko: Co-host of the The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS), Dann also is a wealth of practical knowledge in all areas of desktop Linux. Stephen Spector: Community manager for Xen, which allows multiple operating systems to be run on the same computer through hardware supported virtualization. Daniel Walsh: Daniel leads the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) project and is also involved in secure virtualization. Paul Frields: Fedora Project Leader and Chairman of the Fedora Project Board. Paul is involved in seemingly everything in Fedora from package maintenance to security to documentation. Greg DeKoenigsberg: Senior Community Architect at Red Hat, founder and first chairman of the Fedora Project Board and Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. Greg currently holds a position on the oversight board for Sugar Labs. Within the Fedora community he holds the distinguished honor of being recognized as 'Lord of the Plow' Max Spevack: Manager of Red Hat's community architecture team, and former Fedora Project Leader, Max now defines and executes Red Hat's global community strategy. Michael DeHaan: Michael currently works for Reductive Labs (now Puppet Labs), who develops puppet, a configuration management tool for systems administrators. Michael is the former lead developer for cobbler, an automated provisioning tool. Baron Schwartz: Director of consulting at Percona, Baron wrote 'High Performance MySQL' which has become the definitive work on the subject. In addition, Baron has created maatkit, better cacti templates, and innotop. Russell Bryant: Engineering Manager for the open source software team at Digium, Russell is a core member of the Asterisk open source PBX development team. He was Asterisk's first release maintainer when Asterisk 1.0 was released. The SouthEast LinuxFest plans to extend more than double this lineup of speakers over time. The Call For Papers is still open and will remain so until May 1st, despite an early showing that more than fills our speaking slots. About the SouthEast LinuxFest: The SouthEast LinuxFest is an annual conference celebrating Linux and free/libre open source software. It is part social gathering, and part educational event. The SouthEast LinuxFest is free to attend. This year the event will be held at the Spartanburg Marriott at Renaissance Park from Friday, June 11th through Sunday, June 13th. The SouthEast LinuxFest is run by the non-profit SouthEast LinuxFest Foundation. For more information, visit http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org or email info@southeastlinuxfest.org or call 1-864-372-9827.
posted 00:17 [/linux/self] permanent link Mon, 16 Nov 2009 Upstate Carolina Linux User Group Podcast 21 John Yeary: Amazon Cloud Services UCLUG podcast in ogg format, and UCLUG podcast ogg feed.posted 01:47 [/linux] permanent link Wed, 28 Oct 2009 Upstate Carolina Linux User Group Podcast 20 Mike Major presented his 4th Grade Math program that he wrote for Sugar. The program is called Hop-A-Round and it focuses on rounding numbers. UCLUG podcast in ogg format, and UCLUG podcast ogg feed.posted 02:36 [/linux] permanent link Thu, 17 Sep 2009
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 OLF http://digg.com/linux_unix/Bring_a_Luddite_To_Sanity_Day_Ohio_Linux_Fest_Sept_25_27_09 http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ohio_Linux_Fest_September_25_26_Back_to_the_Future_of_Linux digg early, digg often posted 03:22 [/linux] permanent link Thu, 10 Sep 2009 SouthEast LinuxFest 2009 Video rss feed Links:
You can also subscribe to a rss feed of the video files in OGV format, and watch them as soon as they are uploaded.
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