Pia posting about Software freedom day, software freedom day online shop is up, reminded me about something I’ve been meaning to post for a while. When you send in the address to get your team’s t-shirts and goodies, make sure you get it right! Last year I helped pack all the goodies that we sent [...]
January 3, 2007 – 9:55 am
I’ve finally gotten around to putting the slides from my SLUG talk up. Funnily enough linux.conf.au has kept me pretty busy, as usual I’ll take this opportunity to just blame Pia. You can find the slides on my presentations page, and here is a direct link to the PDF. A couple of people have asked [...]
November 11, 2006 – 12:07 pm
We’ve just hit 250 registrations for linux.conf.au, only 5 days to go before early bird registrations close. So here are some interesting stats of the attendee breakdown so far: By Country Country Number Brazil 1 Canada 1 France 1 Ireland 1 Liberia 1 Nigeria 1 China 1 Singapore 1 Spain 1 UK 1 Croatia 4 [...]
October 12, 2006 – 8:24 am
Next Tuesday (17th Oct) I’ll be giving a presentation at Thinking Linux ’06 in Melbourne. The talk is entitled Open Source in the Data Centre and I’ll be covering things like Load Balancing “Stuff” (IPVS, keepalived, heartbeat) Monitoring using Nagios and MRTG/rrdtool Authentication with OpenLDAP anf FreeRADIUS and a whole lot of other random things [...]
September 15, 2006 – 9:41 am
This Saturday is Software Freedom Day, the main Sydney event sponsored by SLUG will be being held at UNSW, more specific details can be found at the Sydney SFD page. As part of the lead up to linux.conf.au 2007, the AV Team is going to be using this day as a trial run to test [...]
September 12, 2006 – 9:02 am
At a couple of linux.conf.au meetings we kept coming across the same recurring theme, everything just seemed to be Pia’s fault So one dark and rainy night justblamepia.com was born. We even get to blame Pia for this post because the site isn’t even ready yet, it is supposed to get a spruce up (I [...]
September 8, 2006 – 6:49 pm
Most people probably aren’t aware that a few months ago I became Head Technical Guru as part of the seven team organising linux.conf.au 2007. All blame for this shall lie solely with Pia. <Pia> Hey John are you still interested in helping out with the conference? <John> Yeah sure <Pia> Cool. Can you come to [...]
