Devops Needs Sushi
I`ll be heading to bed early today as tomorrow will be a busy day. I have to get up early to catch my flight to London where
Tom and I will be representing Inuits at the UKUUG 2009 Spring Conference.
Tom will be giving an updated version of our Open Source Monitoring Shootout talk again, I`ll probably be skipping a couple of his slides as right after that Jane Curry will be covering Zenoss in depth and on thursday there will be an OpenNMS talk too.
Alexandre urges us too microblog on Identica rather than on Twitter
As an opensource evangelist I probably should do so .. Crossposting from Identi.ca to Twitter works… but there is one big thing that’s blocking me to do this by default and that’s a bug in microblog-purple which currently blocks me from using Identi.ca in Pidgin. Which is what I use to Tweet ..
As afteral .. Twitter is nothing more than world wide searchable irc , isn’t it ? And I want them all from 1 interface, irc, jabber, twitter, …
Late last year Packt send me yet another book to review
the The Learning Nagios 3 book, a bit more in my field of expertise than the Drupal Multimedia one which I also appreciated,
I already posted I wasn’t going to have time to review it before Fosdem but I finally managed.
Having used Nagios on and of for the better part of the decade but not really having touched ground with Nagios 3 yet I had mixed feelings, generally the book gives a good beginner targeted overview of Nagios, with the usual What is, installing and getting started chapters.
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)