Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to pick up the following three security notices: [USN-612-1] OpenSSL vulnerability [USN-612-2] OpenSSH vulnerability [USN-612-3] OpenVPN vulnerability I can tell you these are really not funny. They really generate a lot of work indirectly. Annoying but doable are things like regeneration SSH keys. The PITA situation is with OpenVPN, [...]

Yesterday Mediaplaza organized an afternoon program about the possibilities of Linux and Open Source software in the educational system. As part of the program I gave an presentation where I introduced Edubuntu and the possibilities it offers. Followed up by a tour/workshop which allowed participants to get a little bit familiar with the Edubuntu GNOME [...]

We recently experienced some performance problems with an Ubuntu machine with software raid1. To localize it a bit further I ran some tests on different setups. For comparison I also included a setup with hardware raid and a setup with software raid on CentOS, I will also post the specs of the machines in question [...]

Decided: Install a wordpress plugin make the comment spam less annoying (before I go on holiday). Bought (21 euro): The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (the tv serie). Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle Dogma The Big Lebowski Work & School: Busy Internship almost finished Opinion: I think that the dapper-commercial repository is quite [...]

Ubuntu Dapper Release Party Last friday at Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe, a succes. Kim Chee decorated the place with some artwork and installed a demo setup with several thin clients. To make it more then just drinking I held a talk as “our local ubuntu guru”. In the talk I highlighted some features and other coolness [...]

I just read roozbez‘s explaination on planet GNOME to why Sharif Linux shipped Firefox by default instead of Epiphany. The most important reason was marketing. Firefox is well known in the computer savvy user arena and ofcourse this is an advantage. But does it really matter? First of all from what I understand Mozilla doesn’t [...]

Ogra came up with the following video clip during the Edubuntu meeting today: http://80.237.148.5/cebit.avi Quite cool. I hope that Ubuntu gets more media exposure after the dapper release. It is certainly ready for it with dapper. ps. German sounds so cute. :p

Since this afternoon I’m an Ubuntu member! Besides the school project where I blog about regularly I have some other current work in the pipeline: Writing a part of the EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook Extensive (end-user) feedback from school project to Edubuntu. Writing some documentation regarding LTSP use.

An interesting discussion: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EpiphanyDefaultBrowser Personally I hate Firefox for being sluggish and not consistant with GNOME. All the menus are different. But when I use Epiphany I miss some advanced functions of Firefox (especially when I right-click). And I totally hate the latest function in Firefox which makes you zap to next or previous page [...]

41 Seconds. :> Much faster then breezy.