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{ Monthly Archives } April 2011

Oil Consequences

I know a couple of people who are on the pess­im­istic side of the Peak oil hypo­thesis, and a couple who are equally fer­vent in their optim­istic belief (the idea being that we’ll always find more and/or tech­no­logy will save the day). As is my wont, I’m some­where in the middle, think­ing we’re likely to […]

Installing Debian

The next stage in the great pro­ject to migrate back from Debian from OpenSol­aris: installing Debian. Wow, it’s so much easier these days! Here are my ran­dom notes from the install. I chose the net­work install option and burned the .iso to a CD. Then I booted from the CD on the boot­loader (on a […]

Moving Blog Homes

Given the cur­rent state of OpenSol­aris (pre­cari­ous, judging by vari­ous posts I’ve seen over the last few months) I decided to move the base­ment devel­op­ment and blog host­ing machine back to Debian. I mostly use it for a couple of small Word­Press blogs, and try­ing out vari­ous things (the odd Django pro­ject, Ruby on Rails, […]

Keynotes and Journeys

Every year, when we start organ­ising North­ern Voice, the ques­tion comes up about key­notes. Key­notes set the tone of a con­fer­ence, they indic­ate some­thing of what the organ­ising com­mit­tee is think­ing, or what they think the com­munity that sup­ports the con­fer­ence might want to hear about. This year, I wanted to find someone as a […]

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