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El-Cheapo Community LPI Exams on 15th March 2008

We’re happy to announce that we’ll be organizing an LPI certification session. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is a non-profit organization geared to provide professional certification for the Linux Community. This would be an excellent opportunity for working professionals, students and interested individuals to get certified at a low cost.
(More information about LPI available here: [...]


Upgraded Fedora Core 6 boxen to Fedora 8

I updated cassini.gathani.org to Fedora Core 8 from Fedora Core 6. It took the better half of the afternoon, thanks to yours truly having used some non-Fedora repositories.
Seems to be working now, with over 400 packages needing an update post installation. I notice a suspicious lag in rendering of GTK windows which clearly needs more [...]


The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality

From David Pogue’s blog (on New York Times and if you can spot the irony in me posting this here, good for you!):

The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
I’ve been doing a good deal of speaking recently. And in one of my talks, I tell an anecdote about a lesson I learned from my own readers.
It [...]


FreeBSD ekhtml, pecl-html_parse, pecl-mdbtools ports

Submitted ekhtml, pecl-html_parse, pecl-mdbtools ports. Within hours, pecl-mdbtools was committed, thanks to Miwi! I’ve never seen such fast turn around time
For some reason, nobody’s touching my CouchDB port . My AstmanProxy port had some troubles building on AMD64 but I sent in a patch for that. I must say that the FreeBSD automated [...]


Linux for audio

A fantastic article on audio on Linux, and an even more brilliant comment to the post:
“Linux for audio, is for people who are more into Linux than Audio.“
Heh.


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