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“Rusty Russell once talked a spambot out of sending mail. It is now a well-known kernel hacker.” Awesome. Who needs an award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Wrench) when you can be immortal 😉

A really interesting interview with the founding CTO of OLPC, also has particularly useful comparison information with the Intel Classmate.

“2009’s linux.conf.au will be held between the 19th and the 24th of January at the University of Tasmania’s Sandy Bay campus.” Yay! Website includes bid document and other stuff about lca2009 in Tasmania! Looking forward to it!

“Red Hat 5 will link Linux with Microsoft and allow FCS forces to link with other brigade combat teams,” the Army official said. “This will be an interim solution because over the long haul, eventually all of the Army’s networks will be Linux-base

“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer believes the software giant needs to spend more on marketing in order to sell more copies of Vista” – reminiscent of a Dilbert comic where the product not working could be sold with just a little marketing 🙂

“It suggests that people who work with open source are likely to have better skills and are likely to get better jobs,” Jeff Waugh said. “That is a really good message to take out to the education sector.”

“Typical Australian open source developers are 26 years old and spend their days being bored in Canberra. Despite that, free software enthusiasts have more sex and earn more money than you might expect, a new survey reveals.” Funny article about the Censu

“Full results of first open source industry census to be available for free in March” Another article by Rodney Gedda on the Census.

“There are a lot of women doing very powerful stuff in technology, and we’re kicking ass,” said Capper. Nice article, interesting project showing off women running successful ICT companies in Australia.

“a great cross blend typically representative of the industry”… “carving a niche into their chosen markets and excelling using a variety of Oracle, Linux, Apache, PHP, .Net, Microsoft SQL, and Web 2.0 technologies”. Another Million $ Babes article.

“Does a certain type of man look at all women as ‘babes’? – YES they do. Will denying the femininity of women in the workplace prevent this? – NO it will not.” Interesting and I think quite true perspective.

Fascinating, keep an eye out for tech flop favourites like Vista and DRM 😉

A nice article from Rodney Gedda about the AGIMO survey summary released late last year.

David Hicks – “As part of my conditions of release from Guantanamo Bay, I agreed not to speak to the media… before March 30, 2008. It’s my intention to honour this agreement as I don’t want to do anything that might result in my return there.” I hope he

“…after bazillions of years that the banana has been around, that the banana is not a fruit at all; it is in fact a very ferocious animal that disguises itself as an edible fruit!” – My life is now complete. Would you believe Badgers brought me here?

“Here is a screen shot from the hit game make install.” – Awesome. Other awesome games include “The Quest for the Lost Dependency Package”, “Extreme Man Page Reading” & “dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=4096”.

“A UK government agency has advised schools to avoid upgrading to Microsoft’s Vista and Office 2007.” Interesting article, and hopefully might shed some light on the possible issues for local education in Australia.

An interesting little breakdown of yet another “here are the problems with Linux” piece that also incorporates Borat.

An article by Sam Varghese where he is on the warpath with GNOME, as usual (he’s an extremist KDE fanboy) and he goes to Stallman for comment. Stallman gives interesting measured responses, one in particular that highlights Sam’s insanity, “That would be a very drastic thing to do.”