<rant>There are many ways you can support open source projects. You can write code, you can help out other users, submit bug reports. Ubuntu has a great wiki page as to how you can contribute and many other open source projects do as well. And really the best way you can contribute is to get [...]
Archive of posts tagged Open Source
Alive and Well (Just Busy)!
It has been ages since I last posted, and for that I am sorry, but I have kept up with my twitter and identica accounts. Things have been moving really fast for me of late and as a result my blogging has slipped. So whats new in the world of earobinson? I am now working [...]
Ubuntu Spam
Using gmails spam filters I normally don’t have a problem with spam. However my one email that does receive a lot of spam is my Ubuntu email address. Interestingly enough a few open source members have droped there open source email addresses due to this exact problem. Jeff Bailey has disabled his @gnu.org email address, [...]
Free Software Open Source Symposium 2007
I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Free Software Open Source Symposium 2007 (FSOSS07) this year and had a great time. While I did take some pictures I am still using my cellphone to take pictures since my digital camera has not been replaced yet (read poor university student) so I only [...]
New Hackergotchi
In light of the fact that I am now bald, today I uploaded a new hackergotchi to the planet ubuntu bzr tree. Uploading the picture was easy, making the picture was a bit harder. This is my first time using GIMP 2.4.0-rc3 and it seems that the selection tools don’t work the same way that [...]
Map of The Internet
The other day I stumbled upon Chris Harrison’s internet map, the only problem I found with his map is that I wanted to know exactly which country each network connection was in. So using the DIMES public data repository, and 1site1moment’s country boarders I have mapped the internet for myself. From Public Feel free to [...]
