manchicken here…

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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Well, it’s been a long time coming, and now Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn is released. You can read the release notes and official announcement here. Kubuntu is an excellent project to work on, and JR runs it damned well.
On December 9th of 2006 I went into #kubuntu-devel on freenode and told them I [...]

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Wow. So, Sony, you think that DRM stops people from sharing content, eh? Is that so? I search the torrents (I just searched, didn’t download, so you can heel your blood-thirsty attorneys) for two of the films mentioned in this article (Casino Royal and Rocky Balboa). Casino Royal came up with [...]

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So I’m looking forward to the next few weeks before UDS. You see, with all the travelling for work (I just finished three of four consecutive weeks travelling), I’m looking forward to the peace and quiet before I fly from my peaceful little house in a town in a corn-field to Sevilla, Spain. [...]

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Howdy folks! So the Ubuntu-Chicago folks have been active for a while, and they’re a great team of folks. But what about the folks in central and southern Illinois? How sad.
So, it is my delight to call this first meeting of the Ubuntu Illinois LoCo team. On Saturday the 19th I [...]

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In this installment I will explain why Perl is the ideal language to automate your tests for any application at the unit level.
There’s been a lot of difference of opinion on what unit testing is supposed to be. I think this is a good discussion, but I don’t think it goes anywhere near addressing [...]

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Okay, so I know some jive-turkeys have been talking some serious smack about Perl, and you may even be one of them (if so, you’re a jive-turkey). Here I will attempt to show you how Perl could meet your needs in testing ANY application, in ANY language, in ANY environment, regardless whether or not [...]

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Well boys and girls, you’re used to me complaining about people and companies and things that I think are bogus or wrong etc. but hold onto your seats, because I’m about to say something nice and neat about someone!
ArtistServer.com, you are being called out! How dare you sit there in your little website and [...]

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Okay, so anybody here who has EVER done stored procedure work in a database knows that stored procedures can be exceedingly tricky to debug. Well my favorite DBMS, PostgreSQL, has in their FAQ that version 8.3 may have a PL/pgSQL debugger! The folks at sqlmanager.net have had one of these for a little [...]

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