I’m not a huge fan of our trademark policy, though I believe it is better than not having one (just barely) and I don’t have a better one to offer right now. I’ve been meaning to write an essay to condense and explain what features I find seriously problematic in our current policy, and highlight [...]
Brain dump, clearing a ‘misc stuff to blog about’ tomboy note before my free time vanishes:
Life imitates art. Sadly, I really do like my Mach 3 enough that I’ll at least try this beast once, as will a lot of other guys I know.
Spectacular article on Suck.com- really good read for those who were regular [...]
[NTS: need to update to blogging software that allows 'below the fold' type posts :)
And a follow up from a small chat at the Berkman Center with Dr. Eslambolchi and Jonathan Zittrain (attending from Oxford.)[1] The chat was moderated by David Weinberger.
Q: What does E. mean by end-to-end?
A: in the 80s, investment was all in [...]
I thought I’d try liveblogging from hossein eslambolchi’s talk today at Harvard. Maybe it’ll force me to take good notes, or maybe it’ll be a mess. :) Attendance is good; apparently they are giving away five Shuffles at the end. At least one audience member running Ubuntu.
Mr. Eslambolchi is the AT&T CTO and CIO, and [...]
Got many, many wishes of luck yesterday with the new job (which is still not 100%-super-duper set in stone, but basically is, I guess). Thanks to everyone who wrote.
Good day. Took a practice LSAT all morning. The games section broke me, but otherwise did very, very well. So at least I know what I have [...]
Barring spectacularly late-blooming problems, I’m excited to announce that I’ll soon be joining Harvard Law’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society as ‘head geek’ (or something like that). I still very much plan to attend school next fall, but the Berkman folks are happy to have me anyway for some reason :) The job will [...]
Tor is a cool anonymity-providing proxy from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They’ve decided they want a GUI, and are having a Tor GUI contest to solicit suggestions for one. The contest is being judged by some cool folks like Edward Tufte and Bruce Schneier. Sounds like it might be good fun for someone from our [...]
I have again started pondering the state of GUADEC and the Foundation in general, and it has again threatened to make my mood dark and stormy. Stayed up too late. Wrote some flames, hopefully some of which will stimulate much-needed discussion. Hopefully even more constructively did a SWOT analysis of GUADEC. I think a lot [...]
I’ve had three people email me and say ‘why isn’t the liveCD available in my language’. The answer is that they did not email marcus bauer with the very small piece of information he requested. Do that and odds are good (though not guaranteed) you’ll get a liveCD up in your language.
Marcus would also love [...]
Now that 2.12.0 liveCD nuttiness is slightly winding down for me, some random things I’d really love to see in 2.14, all of which should be very doable:
Officially adopt network-manager, and then aggressively port network-related apps (evo, ephy, and weather-applet for example) to behave intelligently when n-m says there is no network.
gnome-screensaver and fusa becoming [...]
