Software Cooperative News

This weekend, I will be mostly watching the Tour de France. It’s been a very good tour for software and cooperatives. Look at the current leaderboards:-

Teams

Carlos Sastre Candil (also 2nd in King of Mountains) Team Computer Sciences Corporation – Saxo Bank
Frank Schleck (3rd KoM) Team CSC – Saxo Bank
Bernhard Kohl (1st KoM) Gerolsteiner bottled [...]

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The notorious nutsack (cc-by-2.0)
The conference pack for LugRadioLive was called a “nutsack” for some reason (anyone know why?). It seems like a pretty good pack, as far as these things go.
First of all, it’s a durable paper bag, so much greener than plastic. It contained:

the event programme/schedule

a LUGRADIO LIVE badge which I only [...]

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LUGRadioLive 2008 by sheilaellen (cc-by-2.0)
One aspect I didn’t mention in the LugRadio Live Event Review was how old-fashioned it seemed in some ways.
I guess I’ve got used to seeing conferences experimenting with various web2.0 toys like live-blogging, feedback walls and so on, or the excellent live video streaming of DebConfs, but it was a bit [...]

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There’s an old saying that bad luck comes in threes. Today, I am doing unexpected work because:-

one webserver was reinstalled instead of the upgrade I was expecting,

another webserver was cracked and defaced (combination of two known security problems that we didn’t fix quickly enough, but that’s the server owner’s call really), and

my internet connection [...]

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LUGRadioLive 2008 by sheilaellen (cc-by-2.0)
This weekend, I learnt lots of things while at LugRadio Live in Wolverhampton. One thing was the surprising delay between posting something on this site and it actually appearing in the feed on my mobile phone. Another is that I can’t post to my new blog hosting from my [...]

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