I've mentioned Ohio LinuxFest here before, but hey…it's almost time! I'm currently at the "checkpoint" on the trip to Columbus. By that I mean, a coworker and I are crashing at our bosses' house. We're leaving in...
Topics: event, linuxfest, OLF

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This is the 4th year the DC LoCo Team has had a table at the Takoma Park Folk Festival . In 2006, Kevin (the LoCo leader) says the table was well off the beaten path. Very few visitors. 2007 was my first year participating. That year we got a better..
Topics: event, OLPC

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Every now and then, I see people make the following claim: Ubuntu has a root password; they just don't tell the user what it is. Rubbish. Some versions claim it is a randomly generated one. Rubbish. There is no root password, and this statement...
Topics: explanation

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I mentioned Bethlynn's bet that Bug 1 would be fixed by the end of June 2011 before . She was blogging over on her LiveJournal, but since a lot of comments seemed to go missing before even hitting her moderation queue, she now has a new blog to track.
Topics: bug, links

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I notice in the comments on David Schlesinger's blog posts about RMS 's "EMACS virgin" tangent at Guadec/Akademy a lot of folks telling him to stop being a "pseudo-feminist" or implying that he thinks women are defenseless and.
Topics: women

{"title":"Male Feminists","post_url":"http:\/\/ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/male-feminists.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"macoafi","date":"2009-07-09 12:36:00","summary":"I notice in the comments on David Schlesinger's blog posts about RMS 's \"EMACS virgin\" tangent at Guadec\/Akademy a lot of folks telling him to stop being a \"pseudo-feminist\" or implying that he thinks women are defenseless and."}