Archive for March, 2006

Updated Google Maps

No, I didn’t get Google Maps integrated into Utah Open Source Planet (been *way* to busy at work). But, while messing around with it, I noticed my neighborhood has been updated. Here you see (bottom right) the plot where my house was built.

Anyway, If you are on the Planet, please send me your [...]

March 31, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous, Open Source, OpenClue • Comments Closed

Google Maps and the Planet

Today, I took the first few steps toward adding Google Maps to the Utah Open Source Planet. I’m going to have the pop-up box show the hackergochi of each person along with a direct link to their web site. Should be fun!
P.S. Keep your eye on the bottom of the page. [...]

March 27, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous • Comments Closed

Asterisk and RHEL

If you do Asterisk on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS) *and* need zaptel hardware, you should be aware of a bug that may cause you to have more downtime then you would like. The latest Zaptel will not build with some kernels “as is.” It seems that there is a minor spelling [...]

March 26, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous • 2 Comments

The word is out!

Let’s hope that we can get a sweet Planet going on for Utah’s Open Source community! If you are reading this via the Planet and are an Open Source blogger, join us!

March 20, 2006 • Posted in: Open Source, Web • Comments Closed

Fedora Core 5 Final

“Fedora Core 5 Final” torrents from the official site have been posted! It’ll be interesting to see if the ISOs are exactly the same as those posted by unofficial sites yesterday (not that I really care).
file: bordeaux-binary-i386
size: 3,296,658,079 (3.1 GB)
dest: /home/gabe/store/bordeaux-binary-i386
progress:______________________________________
status: finishing in 18:04:55 (0.4%)
speed: 41.9 KB/s down – 140.2 KB/s up
totals: 13.2 MB down [...]

March 20, 2006 • Posted in: Linux, Open Source • Comments Closed

Bill Gates mocks MIT’s $100 laptop project

Bill Gates looks pretty stupid saying stuff like this about the One Laptop per Child (OLPC).

A little taste of it…
“If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read [...]

March 19, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous, Ridiculous • Comments Closed

Fishy (not phishy) email

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something isn’t right about this email…

March 18, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous, Web • Comments Closed

GNOME 2.14 Desktop

Everyone knows that the best Free/free desktop is GNOME :) But did you know that GNOME 2.14 just came out?
Get a high-level preview of all the goodness.

March 16, 2006 • Posted in: Linux, Open Source • Comments Closed

New Planet for Utah Open Source Users

There is a new Planet hosted at OpenClue for Open Source hackers/users/zealots who are active in the Utah community. Why would OpenClue host this? From their web page:
We believe in Open Source. We believe in sharing information.”
Let’s hope that sharing these feeds will make Utah’s Open Source community a little bit stronger :)

March 16, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous, Open Source, OpenClue, Web • Comments Closed

Admin password readable by any user in “Breezy” (Ubuntu)

D’oh! Bug #34606” says it all! This is bad, bad, bad. Wow, what an oversite!
I’m currently running Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 on my single user desktop. Let’s see how I do…
gabe@office:~$ sudo grep MyPassword /var/log/* -R
/var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: MyPassword
/var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: MyPassword
Ouch, Ouch, Ouch! The admin’s password in PLAIN TEXT! Oh, this is embarrassing for Ubuntu! It [...]