manchicken here…

Howdy folks. Well, yesterday afternoon I got a voice mail from someone at Senator Durbin’s office. Today I returned their call and spoke with a fella named Josh (withholding last name). Josh did his best to be considerate, professional, yet politically deceptive. Most of my questions were met with either more [...]

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Howdy folks. I’m a little pissed here. So two days ago I got my EFFector newsletter which brought the Department of Justice’s new Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006 to my attention. Naturally, like all good citizens, I contacted my senator to try and determine how I am being represented in Washington. [...]

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Anyway, we’re talking about a lot of things. The neatest things that I’m seeing are the stuff going into Edubuntu. We’ve got a lot of folks here who are focused on international use of GNU/Linux in educational settings. There are two of those little tiny childrens’ laptops here, both the MIT OLPC [...]

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So you have all probably noticed that I haven’t made any posts to my blog since I mentioned that I would. Well, boy are you in for a treat today! We’ve been discussing all of the lovely things that make up Ubuntu, and how we can make them better. I, obviously, [...]

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Wow, so in order to make the flight seem shorter through the magic of sleep, I’m only on three hours of sleep right now as I write this. I’m really tired, really bored, and sitting in a regional airport in Champaign, IL waiting for my flight to leave around noon. It’s raining a [...]

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Howdy folks. So now I’m going to open my mouth and stick my foot into it with respect to Free Software, and seeding Free Software over bittorrent. Enjoy.
So, just a show of hands: how many of you were frustrated when the new version of $YOUR_FAVORITE_DISTRO came out, and the download sites and mirrors [...]

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Okay… so we’ve had this discussion going on for a long time. In the BadVista mailing lists Ubuntu has taken quite a beating due to its default inclusion of non-free hardware drivers. Well, that and the use of the words “open source” where the words “free software” are more appropriate.
Well, I’ve been a [...]

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Don’t forget all you Ubuntu-lovin’ folks in Illinois! May 19th is the first “official” meeting of Ubuntu-Illinois, at manchicken’s house of hack. There will be UDS debriefing, talks of possible sprints, perhaps a mini hackathon, food, and of course beer. I’ll see if I can pick up a single-malt as well, but [...]

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