Monthly Archives: November 2007

Since I’m sure the Pidgin developers read this blog Pidgin is great. Being able to IM all my friends on all the networks from my Linux machine is a Godsend. Only problem is, file transfer is very iffy. Sometimes it works, depending on the network and whether the person on the other end is using [...]

So I installed Fedora 8 a couple of days after release. All in all, it seems pretty solid. Desktop Effects are working much better than they did in F7 (I can run it for days without crashing now; w00t!). Network Manager was fairly easy to set up (though still not as intuitive as I’d like). [...]

And you reeeeally don’t want to see the ugly. I was doing some snooping and found they archived all the presentation videos from Phreaknic, so I picked out a couple to share. The rest are all linked from the Phreaknic presentations page. This was my favorite presentation, the postal experiments one: Click this link. I [...]

Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia

So we go back from Phreaknic last week. I know you were worried. I have to say, I was not impressed. I went expecting to spend my time watching informative presentations about moderately deep technical subjects. I was reassured by the fact that this is the longest-running hacker conference in the USA (not the oldest, [...]