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On the TWIT.tv site, in their FLOSS weekly podcast, Jacob Kaplan-Moss is interviewed about the origins and design of the Django project by famed Perl guru Randal Schwartz while both recently attended OSCON. (Sadly, the audio seems to only be available in encumbered MP3 — we need more audio published in free formats like [...]
Ed Foster, 59, InfoWorld columnist of “The Gripe Line”, and an advocate for the consumer, dies of a heart attack: http://tinyurl.com/6syljf. Ed fought the good fight and will be missed
Seven attendees made it to the July 2008 meeting of the Python Special Interest Group of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Group, despite the heavy rains. Due to some last-minute conflicts, our planned speaker, Ray Côté, had to take a rain check for a future meeting, but cookies were made and we resolutely carried on.
There [...]
Just recently upgraded the site to WordPress 2.6, using the Automatic Upgrade plugin. It went well, until the very last step when it couldn’t log me back into the web site. Shutting down and restarting the web browser seemed to fix that. Next time I went to log into the administrative site, some funky PHP [...]
Ten people attended the July meeting of the New Hampshire Ruby / Rails group, an affiliate of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group (but it’s okay if you don’t run Linux – there were lots of MacBooks at the meeting last night!). Thanks to Scott Garman and Nick Plante for organizing the meeting and [...]
Ken blogs, “After working at Microsoft for over 7 years as an employee and almost 5 years before that as a contractor/vendor, I’ve decided it’s time for me to do become independent and start my own company. My official last day at Microsoft is July 18th. I’ve enjoyed all the years working at Microsoft since [...]
The New York Times reports “Nvidia Reports Problem With Laptop Chips”
To tackle the problem, the company is releasing a software driver that will cause system fans to start operating sooner and reduce the “thermal stress” on the chips. The driver has been provided to laptop makers directly, said Derek Perez, an Nvidia spokesman.
Ouch! And for [...]
