The Official Ubuntu Book has been nominated in the favourite Linux book category for the Linux Journal 2008 Readers’ Choice Survey.
All Linux fans should take part anyway, but while you’re there cast a vote for the best book about the best distro <wink />.
On his new blog Write To Done, Leo Babauta talks about how to write without distractions. I wanted to look at a couple of his points from the FOSS/Linux/Ubuntu perspective.
or Fun Ways To Spend Your Afternoon #4853
This afternoon I started getting mails saying that messages had been rejected due to lack of storage. Over 2000 appeared in a very short space of time – it seems my domain has been spoofed once again. This wouldn’t be a big deal except that my server was already near capacity and this flurry of activity pushed it over the edge. I’d been aware of the space issue for a while, and had plans to address it but quite simply hadn’t bothered until I was forced into action.
My planning had gotten as far as preparing a larger partition for /var, but it was sitting idle. A quick reboot into single user mode, mount the new partition, copy the data, unmount, move & rename the folders, edit /etc/fstab, remount, check everything appears normal and reboot. By far the longest part was copying the data – next time I’m using rsync so I can track progress.
Unfortunately the bounces are still rolling in. I think I’m finally going to have to look into getting SPF set up.
Just did a quick check on how my book – Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion – was doing on Amazon UK. They had stock earlier in the week, but it’s all gone now – that can only be a good thing!
I was also really pleased to see that I had made into the top 100,000 bestsellers – number 94,492 to be precise. Considering I’ve seen books ranked over the million mark, I’m very happy with my current position.
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 24-odd hours, you will have heard about the new Macbook Air ultra-slim laptop from Apple. Reactions seem to be falling into two categories:
Since everyone else is talking about it, I thought I would join in the fun.
Cartoon courtesy of Hugh MacLeod.
It would seem my assumptions about the target market for this site are a bit off.
I skim through my report from Google Analytics every day or so to observe traffic, but I had a bit of a closer look today and noticed something interesting: Safari is the most popular browser to view this site.
Here are some of the more pertinent figures:
Prism – from Mozilla – tries to integrate web applications with your desktop by giving you an icon and dedicated browser window for each application you configure. That’s it.
I saw Prism when it was first announced, but never got around to looking at it. Then a recent post by Lee Tambiah reminded me about it and I actually got around to looking at it just now.
Installation is simple:
Nice and simple, eh?
There’s not really a lot else to say. It’s Gecko based, so it will work as well as Firefox. There’s no tabs, Extensions or Flash – I’ll let you decide if that’s good or bad.
For sites like Twitter, Pownce or Google Calendar (and at a pinch, Facebook) it’s great, but without tabs I couldn’t imagine using it for Google Reader, or Launchpad.
I looked my book – Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion – on Amazon when it was published, but I could not find it. Earlier tonight my wife went surfing earlier today and had more luck:
After a rather late (or more accurately early) night, I was awoken by a text from my friend asking when my Nokia N800 was arriving. I forewent answering him in favour of more sleep, only to be woken again, but this time by a delivery man with the item in question.
After upgrading it to OS2008 (thanks mrben), I started playing with it properly. So far I’m loving it, but I’ve not done that much with it besides surfing, mail and Skype but then it is an internet tablet.
Things I would like to see:
Are there any apps I should check out?
On a semi-related note yesterday I debranded my N95 and updated it to the latest firmware.
Oh, and of course this was posted from the N800! 