Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Sorry for the downtime last week -- the host box developed a motherboard / power supply problem. It's back up on a new box, and I'm hoping to tinker with WordPress next month. Sooner than than that, I'll post about my election judge experience.
In the meantime, here are links to ...
Posted in Knowledge gardening, knowledge management, penguicon, tagging | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
This is from the talk last week:
OLPC RESOURCES
One Laptop Per Child
Website
Wiki
Forums (developers and users, some critics)
OLPC News
not affiliated with OLPC!
Blog
Forums (mainly users, fans, and critics)
OLPC Learning Club - DC
OLPCLCDC Blog
OLPCLCDC Wiki (at OLPC)
OLPCLCDC Forum (at OLPC News)
Email list
Meetings
Me
Tech blog: (here)
Forums and OLPC wiki ...
Posted in OLPC, learning | No Comments »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Jonathan Blocksom and I were pretty happy with how our talk went at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group last Saturday. There were over 30 people there, and we got questions throughout (and into the parking lot). I had to slow myself down when I talked too fast or moved the mouse too fast ...
Posted in OLPC, learning | No Comments »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
As a configuration manager, I have found unapproved software changes checked in by accident, by miscommunication, and in one unfortunate case, by malice. The more tightly integrated the change-tracking software was with the version control software, the easier it was to catch these errors, but in some cases the ...
Posted in configuration management, security | 1 Comment »