There is a story that has been making the rounds on tech sites about Rogers, one of the two major ISPs in Canada (the other, of course, is Bell).  Apparently, they’ve begun hijacking DNS in order to provide a “helpful” search for domain names that don’t resolve…  which is, of course, filled with their advertisements.  [...]

We’re back from Ruby Fringe.  Everyone who was there declared it the best conference they have ever attended.  There were a huge number of highlights, the speakers were awesome, and I can honestly say I walked away both educated and inspired.
The spirit of the conference was very positive.  There was no official back channel, because [...]

I found a really cool story here.
Turns out that the Fedora Project is rolling out a new system called “Fedora Talk” that allows contributors to sign in using standard VoIP hardware and software to talk to other Fedora contributors.  I think this is a really cool idea and a great application of VoIP technologies.  While [...]

Enrico and I will be going to RubyFringe, an “avant-garde” conference.  The major thing I like about the idea is that it’s Ruby off the Rails; they’ll be talking about a lot of things which aren’t the web framework.  Personally, I can hardly way to hear more about merb.
This is the first conference I’ll be [...]

Just caught this article as I was reading technology news this morning.  Apparently, Best Buy will soon be selling Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a retail box, with manual, quick start guide, and 2 months of support, all for $19.99.  It certainly beats the pants off of the pricing for Vista.
Ubuntu has made some excellent progress [...]