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Monthly Archives: January 2009
LCA2009 Day 5 — Friday
Friday’s keynote was fantastic — Simon Phipps (who retained his job at Sun Microsystems) spoke of the Third Wave of Free Software, which was an observation that Free Software (specifically not Open Source) is becoming a sensible business proposition. It’s … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 4 — Thursday
The opening Keynote on Thursday was a discussion of the Wikimedia/Wikia project, which was overall not too bad. The highlight of the talk was the relaying the Parable of the Vegan, which was quite hilarious. Sadly, I don’t think the … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 3 — Wednesday
Tom Limoncelli opened the conference proper with his keynote on “The Scarcity Mindset vs. The Abundance Mindset”, which was an interesting and insightful talk on how the modern abundance of computer hardware, coupled with open source software can help sysadmins … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 2 — Tuesday
Tuesday I spent mostly at the Free as in Freedom miniconf, where I saw Arthur Sale’s talk on Open Access journals (where he outlined the changes that need to occur in the research publishing industry in order to support research … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 1 — Monday
So I’m sitting on a plane travelling out to Melbourne on Saturday (just in case I don’t get to post this until later), yesterday was the Google Party, and instead of relaxing at the Open Day, I’m getting shipped off … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 0
Yesterday, being the opening day for registration at Linux.conf.au 2009, I decided to attend the Newcomers’ session, in which Rusty Russell and Donna Benjamin detail the history of the conference to conference newbies. This was followed by drinks and nibbles … Continue reading
New Camera (iei!)
So due to being fed up with my previous camera, I got myself a new Canon EOS 450D digital SLR camera last week, and needless to say, I’m really really quite impressed. I’ve taken it out for a few test … Continue reading
The March South
Ohgod, only 6 more sleeps until LCA2009 starts here in Hobart, and planet lca2009 has just been announced, so I suppose I’d better make a first post. I’m really really excited (as Tom has already pointed out), and I hope … Continue reading
Happy Arbitrarily-celebrated Public Holiday!
I notice that the most significant number on my clock has incremented (as it tends to do once every 365ish days), and hence I feel obliged to point it out to you all: Happy new year! 2009 looks like it’ll … Continue reading
