tech news channel on telegram
I have started a Tech News channel on Telegram. Follow it at @datente.
Category: news
what is happening with news publishers?
I think, closer to the lines of thought that Ben Thompson of Stratechery has laid-out, that news publishing is about to undergo a major nichification – the days of everyone trying to report everything is over. “Local” (whether by geography, interest, or some other grouping mechanism) publishing in narrowly-defined niches is basically going to finish gobbling…
it’s been 4.5 years
Since I last changed hosts. I’m sticking with the same provider, but making a pretty big jump – from CentOS 6 to 7, from 2TB to 4TB storage, and 16GB to 64GB RAM. Theoretically, you wouldn’t know this had changed at all unless you happened to catch it in the few seconds between DNS pointing…
knoppix remastering virtual appliance
In preparation for an upcoming post on remastering Knoppix, I have made a VirtualBox virtual appliance based on the Knoppix v7.6.1 DVD all set for remastering. /dev/sda holds the raw files. /dev/sdb1 is a swap partition. To use the appliance, download the Knoppix 7.6.1 DVD. You’ll need a boot environment for remastering, and Knoppix has…
haiku appliance
I have been a fan of Haiku for years – and BeOS since way back in the 90s. I run a Haiku mirror, and try to pay attention to the project’s updates. Today I am making available a Haiku-OS r1 alpha 4.1 virtual appliance! Download it from me here (created in VirtualBox, but in .ova format, so…
wsj thinks apple will make and sell cars
Dallas News thought so back in March (see here). And I predicted it back in February. Now WSJ thinks so.
may 11 bglug meeting 6:30p at beaumont branch: topic – freeipa
We will be meeting at the Beaumont Library Branch at 6:30p on 11 May. Our speaker is the LUG’s own Nathaniel McCallum, one of the FreeIPA maintainers – and all-around nice guy. Come out and support the LUG, learn something new, and meet cool people.