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Archive for October, 2007

Gutsy Release Party, the Netherlands, 27 October 2007

It was fun being at the Gutsy Gibbon Release party in the Netherlands. There is a nice photo impression here.
I was honored to give a presentation on Ubuntu myself. Some pictures of me in action:

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Monday, October 29th, 2007

Preparing for the next month

I have almost finished moving from one house to the next. Most boxes have been unpacked already and the only thing lacking is a cable from the router on first floor to the basement where the study (and all the computers) is located.  New surroundings provide new insights and new desires. I started Ruminations on [...]

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Writing a book in one month?

About a week from now I will start  a new series of articles “DesktopBSD: the first 30 days”. This coincides with the annual National Novel Writing month. It’s the insane challenge to write a complete book of 50.000 words (or 175 pages) in one month.
What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time.
Who: [...]

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Microsoft partners again: with TurboLinux. My, my, was I right ;-)

On June 15th of this year I wrote a brief article about possible partners for Microsoft after it signed a deal with Xandros and Linspire. The article was called Microsofts next partners: Mandriva and TurboLinux. I remember that time fondly because it created quite a stir in the Mandriva community, eventually leading to a formal [...]

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

PC-BSD Day 30: The verdict

Thirty days with PC-BSD. One month that flew by. In this month I tried to work with PC-BSD every day, sometimes from a more novice viewpoint, sometimes by pushing the limits from the perspective of the more daring user. There are still issues that haven’t been tested yet like mounting network shares at boot time [...]

Friday, October 5th, 2007