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Wanna learn more about Greasemonkey?
The dude that invented the world's most awesomest extension for Firefox - Greasemonkey - gave a presentation at
OSCON, & he's posted his slides.
If you want to find out more about the background of Gm, or where it's going, check 'em out!
(Check out all of my posts on
Greasemonkey.) ...
Decent OpenOffice.org Impress templates
Me personally, I made my own very simple white text on a black background OOo Impress templates. Most templates,
whether they're for PowerPoint or Impress, completely suck. Ugggggly. This dude on The Linux Box put up a few OOo
Impress templates at Open Source Presentation
Templates that Will Make Proprietary Office Suites Jealous that don't completely suck. If you're into presentation
templates, in fact, they're not bad at all.
(Check out all of our posts on OpenOffice.org.) ...
The future of KDE multimedia
LinuxTag 2005 is over, and a lot of cool stuff came out of it, as always. One thing I want to point you towards is a
presentation available on the Web about the future of KDE multimedia; in other words, stuff we'll see in KDE 4.0.
Titled "KDE Multimedia Roadmap", these are slides from a
presentation at LinuxTag (created using KPresenter, btw) that give the history & new directions for audio, video,
& other fun things in the next big KDE. Worth running through - and it won't take ya long anyway.
(Check out all of my posts on KDE
multimedia.) ...
NYCBSDCon wrap up, Part 2: Certification
Now that I've had some time to digest everything, it's time to talk in a little more depth about Saturday's
presentations. First up, Dru Lavigne's
presentation on BSD
Certification. I've been skeptical of this project. There's no denying that BSD, particularly FreeBSD, enjoys wide
deployment in enterprise settings where employers might like sysadmins to be certified. It's also clear that
having a certification might help with advocacy: more organizations might be willing to adpot BSD OSs if there were
some official recognition for qualified admins. What's been unclear to me, though, is how a specifically BSD cert will
be of any practical value since so many of the basic concepts are already covered by
SAGE.
After listening to Dru's talk, though, I'm more convinced. I knew they had done a lot of research, but I didn't
realize how extensive it is, and how extensive the plans for further review are. It certainly looks like they have the
tools in place to figure out exactly ...
Big ol' collection of Fedora Core links #2
I'm cleaning out my bookmarks, Bloglines clippings, &
del.icio.us links, & here are a bunch on Fedora Core. Enjoy!
Fedora Core 4 KDE Screenshot Tour
47 screenshots of KDE running on FC4.
The Present and Future with Fedora Core
4
A really useful & informative series of questions & answers. Some of these are key, so check this
out.
Review: Fedora Core 4
Another nice little blog review of FC4 that's positive overall, but does mention a few negatives.
(Check out all of my posts on Fedora
Core.) ...
Slide shows based on HTML, CSS, & JavaScript
PowerPoint pretty much sucks, for a variety of reasons. And in that group I also include OpenOffice.org Impress (which I personally choose to suffer through) and Apple's Keynote. They all just suck in different ways. Being a Web dude, I've always looked for a web-based solution, and now there appears to be two contenders: Dave Raggett's Slidy (he's the guy who invented the awesome Tidy, so you know he's a smart cookie) and Eric Meyer's (we all must bow to him & his CSS godly knowledge) S5, which stands for Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System.
Both are good, & both work the same: they provide you with the CSS files (which you can customize ... & which you should customize, so your templates are unique) and JavaScript, & your job is put your entire presentation in an XHTML file. If you know HTML, this will be easy; if you don't ... well, there's always Impress! Based on my experimentation with both, I'm going to use S5. It supports font scaling a bit better, & it has some features that ...
NYBSDCon: The day so far…
So far, it's been a really fun day, in a geeky sort of way. As a neophite tech conference goer, it's a little
strange to see so many people plugged in. At least 80-% of the audience is taking notes, visiting the websites being
mentioned, chatting, checking email, and probably hacking up code samples, a far cry from the academic conferences I'm
used to. The, uh, gender dynamic is about what you'd expect, too. I'm sure I'm not the only one liveblogging this
either; an open wireless network is a wonderful thing. The organizers ahve done a bang up job, and aside from some
logistical problems created by the vist of Ahmed Kharzi to campus today, everything has gone very smoothly. The people
are great, too, but anyone who has hung out on any of the NYCBUG lists already knew that. Chatted a little bit with
Maichael Welsh about the BSDCert colo facilities. Who knew FreeBSD was big in Brazil? I exchanged
pleasantries with Jeffery Hsu from Dragonfly at lunch and Michael Lucas who is a ...
Videos of DebConf talks available
So ya couldn't make the last Debian Conference, huh?
Helsinki, Finland too far to fly, eh? Well, you missed some great fellowship, but don't despair totally - you can view
(individual talks or
the whole enchilada) or
buy video DVDs of DebConf talks. That's
right: all those hours and hours of mmmmmm good Debianess are there for the viewing & listening. We're talking
about presentations on A Travel Through Debian, Emdebian: Embedded Debian the Debian Way, & Next-Generation Debian
Initscripts (round table). Sounds cool, doesn't it? So get to gettin'!
(Check out all of our posts on Debian.) ...
Norway says NO to proprietary formats
The title kinda says it all:
"
Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable in Communication with Government". Damn straight. Why
should tax dollars go towards creating data that is locked up and inaccessible? All government communications should
ONLY be in open formats, so that ALL citizens can read and participate in the process, and so that the public's data is
truly open and available.
The best part of this announcement? It's reported that the Minister of Modernization (man, I wish the US had one of
those!) wouldn't say the word "Microsoft" directly, but instead referred to "the spreadsheet almost everyone uses" and
also said "this is the last time I will present a plan for information technology being broadcast on the net in Windows
Media". Beautiful!
This means MSFT better change its ways & start supporting the OASIS standard file formats, or lose the Norwegian
government's business. Again, beautiful!
(Check out all of my posts on Microsoft,
OASIS, ...
NYCBSDCon: Dru Lavigne
Despite the vagaries of the NYC transit system, I made it down to Morningside heights this morning for Dru Lavigne's
update on the BSD Certification movement. No time to set up for
liveblogging, though, so I'll do a quick recap; she's promised to post the complete details—in the form of her
presentation slides—to the website later.
The basic gist, though, is that things are moving along. The current projects are 501(c)3 incorporation—hopefully this
week—the BSD Usage Survey—
on-line through Sept. 30th. Take it; the more thorough the statitistics, the better for everyone—forming the business
plan, and talking to professional prometricians about how to make the test fair.
Site redesign and logo contest to be launched soon, so keep your eyes out.
Sorry about the links, but it's the best way to keep things moving; we'll clean them and make them look pretty later.
Spelling, too, perhaps; it's dark in here!
Next up: ...
NYCBSDCon: Wrap up
Well, it's over. The last few presentations were very good, and I have a lot of information chasing itself around in
my brain. Once I collect my thoughs I'll post some recaps and commentary, but kudos to Ike and the rest of the NYCBUG
guys for putting together a great confernce. they really brought some great people together for some good discussion
and intersting opinions on BSd and open source projects in general. there was a lot to absorb today, but I think the
real take-away isn't the tech notes but the idea that open source projects are really about people. Sometimes
it's easy to see all of this as just collections of bits and lines of code in cvs trees, and it's nice to put
faces with all of those email addresses and initials in comment strings. At the very least, I'll be more tolerant the
next time something crashes or refuses to compile on the first try. ...
Color pickers
This is a small type of tool, but every OS needs to have one: a color picker. Basically, an app that lets you pick
colors that you want to use in web pages, apps, or image manipulation programs. A good color picker should give you
palettes to choose from, should let you use an eyedropper tool to select colors you see on your computer monitor,
should present the color value in a variety of formats, including RGB and CMYK, and should let you copy and paste the
color value into other apps. There's a good color picker for KDE - KColorChooser (& it's right-hand man,
KColorEdit) - that's part of the KDEGraphics package that should have come with your install of KDE, and a good one for
GNOME - gcolor2. All are worth using, & all will bring color into
your life. Yes, that's a terrible pun. No, you can't shoot me.
(Check out all of our posts on color.) ...
Announcement: Ohio LinuxFest 2005 this weekend
For many of you this will be extremely short notice, but I just found out about it, and I thought I'd pass it along:
Ohio LinuxFest 2005 will be this Saturday, October 1st, at the Greater Columbus
convention Center. If you're in Ohio or Western PA this weekend, the conference is free and it looks like they have
some really great talks lined up:
Morning Keynote
LINUX: Architecture choices and decision points
Chris Hicks, IBM Americas Linux on Power Executive
Different types of servers have long had different operating systems and different architectures. Linux creates
commonality in an operating system although there are some nuances. And the hardware architectures are different. Why?
Each was designed with different types of workloads in mind. It can be valuable to know the key differences in
architectures that can run Linux. Each has incredible strengths when paired with the right kind of workload. Knowledge
can be a key to exploiting those differences and avoiding ...
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Richard Stallman on the dif between open source and free software
RMS is the man behind "free software", a term that a lot of people confuse with "open source". However, at least to
RMS, the two terms are not at all the same thing. Here's a quotation from RMS that expresses the differences he sees.
It's worth thinking about:
The Free Software Movement holds that software users morally deserve the freedom to run, study, change, and
redistribute the software they use. The term "open source" was coined, in 1998, to encourage free and not-quite-free
software while leading attention away from the ethical foundations of free software. The rhetoric of "open source"
presents the issue solely as a matter of practical convenience, not as a matter of freedom and cooperation. It does
not say software *should* be open source, it just recommends a certain "development model" saying it usually leads to
"better" software.
Open source proponents and the BSA disagree about how to produce "better" software, but they agree about what
"better" means: powerful, ...
Apple and open source: dirty pool?
Ever since re-inventing itself with OS X, Apple has been making greater and greater use of open source, and
advertising this fact, for a couple of reasons. 1st of all, it's good geek cred, & it makes nerds feel better about
buying an Apple machine. 2nd, it's good PR with the wider non-nerd audience. 3rd, open source genuinely helps Apple,
and they're acknowledging the fact. So far, all is good.
However, many open source licenses require that those who use code give back their code as well, another requirement
for Apple to follow. A few years ago, Apple made a huge splash when it announced that it was using KHTML, the open
source rendering engine used by Konqueror, as the base for its new browser, Safari. Since KHTML is open source
software, this was supposed to be win-win: Apple gets good software that it will improve, and KHTML developers get the
benefits of Apple's fixes and changes.
Evidently, it hasn't worked out that well.
1st CNET reports in
"Open-source
divorce for Apple's ...
