Devops Needs Sushi
After CloudCamp London , having approx 5-600 visitors according to certain blog posts
One of the next up is line is CloudCamp Antwerp , I`m pretty sure there won’t be 500-600 showing up at the Zoo to watch the penguins , great location …
For those of you travelling from abroad, note that London City Airport is less than an hour from Antwerp , so no excuses there.. that and we have much better beer !
Last Friday that’s march 13th, Gizmodo wanted us to celebrated the 15th birthday of Linux. Kinda weird… as about 15 years ago I was already using Linux ….
Fact is that the 1.0 release of Linux just had it’s 15th birthday , but Linux itself is heading towards its 18th in september.
Getting old ..both of us :)
So when trying to catch up on my Linux Journal reading I ran into the 15 years of Linux Journal article, which makes a lot more sense than 15 year of Linux.
With reports about Belgium being the 3rd most insecure country in the world, only being beaten by Russia and China and our nice country featuring in Wired with what could be the plot for Oceans 17 …
Maybe it’s time to refocus my career a bit more on security again …
Just maybe …
The slides from the presentation I gave last friday at Lsec are now online, both at My Site and on Slideshare
VirtSec, and the Open Source impact
View more presentations from Kris Buytaert.
I learned a lot last friday , I`ll be talking to some more people about the technical details , but be expecting some of my findings on Virtualization.com soon :)
<conspiracy mode>
Claudio , Isn’t it obvious, Sun doesn’t want you to use Linux, they will do everything in their power to prevent that , such as slowing down releases of software for our preferred platform, so that you might even start to consider choosing for Slowaris
</conspiracy mode>
Harald has a nice overview of the FUD that is being spread again by some company from RedMond ..
Now why are they targeting TomTom ? Surely because Canon and Sony and different others are to big to sue, Both my EOS400D, Ixus400 and K800i , are using a way to FAT filesystem to store files on,
I tried putting ext2 formatted disks in them but that failed :)
(Not running Linux or already having paid up might be another reason)
Grab your calendars and mark the following dates :
T-Dose 2009 will be held on 3 and 4 october in Eindhoven again.
Last year we had a nice Drupal track, some great MySQL talks and , a great unplanned Cloud talk , and different other interesting talks, so this year promises also to be very interesting.
(PS. Drupal Themers.. you might want to propose a new theme for the T-Dose site, who knows you’ll even win something)
Last Wednesday after the LSec event with Bruce Schneier and the R ans S from RSA , we already had a mini AdHoc GeekDinner in Leuven, one that pretty would have matched Philips requirements for having it called Geek dinner
Philip has been ranting this week about different events titled “Geek” not attrackting real geeks. that know hex and binary is but merely atrackting the Startup/Web crowd, now there’s nothing wrong with both crowds, and I happen to be part of both but it can cause strange situations
Geekdinner.beTom K arranged a nice deal with De Troubadour so foodwise it promises to be great.
I`m one of those guys that really doesn’t like to agree with certain EULA’s
While it’s sad enough that Dell still fails to sell an Ubuntu based laptop in Belgium and claims they have to charge extra for removing the irrelevant software from Redmond hence trying to trick you into paying more money for freedom there are things you can work around easily, I won’t be accepting the EULA that comes with those new boxen.
Over the past few years I have joined several social networking sites and continue to use a few of them regularly. These sites serve different purposes for me and I have started to come up with strategies of whom to connect with where. Here are the general guidelines that I have developed (subject to spontaneous change and arbitrary override).
On LinkedIn I only link with people that I know in person , worked with in real life or have worked with online intensively in different open source projects. , have communicated with over different media. there are couple of exceptions in my connections from my early days when I didn’t have my own set of rules yet. (Some of them have been unlinked now actually)