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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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LCA2009 Talk Picks

Now that the complete schedule for LCA (Including miniconfs) is available, I’ve chosen what talks I can go to. I’m quite impressed, almost every session for the entire conference has something that’s caught my eye, and so I only have … Continue reading

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Hair Removal

After a rather… interesting thread on #linux.conf.au today, I inherited a new e-mail address. I can now be reached at hair-removal at the secondary domain of linux.conf.au 2009 (marchsouth.org). No idea how that one happened.

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The Week in Review…

Time for me to enumerate a few things that have happened of late (in reverse order of occurrence, naturally), since it now seems like the time to do so. Uni I handed in my Computer Science term project today, which, … Continue reading

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LCA2009: Python Miniconf Proposal

I just posted the following announcement of my proposal for a Python Miniconf to be held at linux.conf.au 2009 to Australian Python mailing lists. I’m posting it here in case anyone has missed it: Linux.conf.au 2009 is to be held … Continue reading

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