FOSDEM 2005

Posted: February 13th, 2005 | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

Reading LWN this week, I discovered just in time that this year’s FOSDEM conference is only two weeks away. Thankfully there were still a few reasonably priced tickets left for the Eurostar, so I booked ’em while I had the chance. There’s quite a group of people from Red Hat going along & talking this year – Alan Cox (talking about the Kernel), Jeff Johnson (talking about RPM), Stuart Winter (on Slackware), Ken Preslan (on GFS), Alisdair Kergon (on Device Mapper), and more besides…

Mighty cold

Posted: February 4th, 2005 | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

A supremely cold front passed through Europe a week or so back. The photos of the ice storm that hit Geneva are absolutely stunning. Here’s a little taster..