I’m a Debian Maintainer currently undergoing the New Maintainer process. I’m also an Ubuntu MOTU as of recently. I have several packages in a variety of categories, but I specialize in Python-based software. I’m interested in exploring more ways to improve cross-distribution coordination, specifically as it relates to the Debian Sugar packages. I’m working to get [...]
Of the 12 servers sent to Sugar Labs, 6 arrived at the Arlington Career Center. Three of them stayed there, whereas I brought three home to attempt to salvage what I could from them. The three that arrived are described below. wmf-01 “le premier” 2x Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 285 @ 2606.342 MHz 2x [...]
On suspendable computers retaining network services with conditional wakeup… (11:28:29 AM) Luke Faraone: don’t you hate it when you think of something cool, only to find that someone else already thought of it? (11:28:47 AM) Peter Harkins: Depends. Sometimes I then think “Awesome, now I don’t have to spend all that time building it.” (11:29:34 [...]
After reading several articles about the alleged spying that was enabled by a Pennsylvania school district via its one-to-one MacBook, and seeing discussion on a variety of mailing lists, I’ve decided to implement my own zero-cost, no-hassle solution to the problem for the OLPC XO-1‘s camera. This should be able to be adopted in deployments [...]
I’m the package maintainer for Autokey in Debian. Upstream recently changed from using GTK+ to Qt4, which caused more than one complaint from users of testing. The GTK+ version of the package is published in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. While upstream is continuing to do regular releases of the GTK version, they are focusing on the [...]
Looks like someone took the prompt at xmarks‘ GetSatisfaction site literally: This really burns me up!? What kind of craptacular beta is this? Do you kiss your mom with this kind of code? You developers will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes!? Chrome Beta: password sync failed with horrible javascripty error [...]
I’ve been getting increasing numbers of requests from donors in the first OLPC Give 1 Get 1, many of whom are just getting around to opening their XOs, to have their laptops repaired. As is now widely known, due to a manufacturing glitch the first few batches of OLPC XO-1s that were shipped to consumers [...]
NB: the following is an essay I wrote for an AP Psychology class. I’m publishing it here to get feedback on my terrible writing style. The primary purpose of attending school is to learn new ideas, concepts, and methodologies. Ideally one should retain everything one learns in the classroom, so that one may do well [...]
Apologies for not posting recently, but I’ve been really busy with various events and tasks for the summer. I just got back from NECC09, where ISTE had been nice enough to give Sugar and other FLOSS projects their own presentation room, gratis. While assisting with the various presentations at the Open Source Center and staffing [...]
In this session, we’ll explore some parts of infosec which should be taught in primary school. We’re all too smart to use the same password on multiple sites, right? While most people, I included, cannot say “yes” to the first question (at least not for everything), that alone is not enough. This is because no [...]