Acheivement unlocked: Public Speaking (10G)

I gave my GCDS talk this morning, I felt it went fairly well. I was particularly nervous, not just because the topic is fairly contentious right now, but also as it was the first time I’ve done any public speaking. Of course there where various questions about NetworkManager; “Why aren’t you using it”, “Why don’t… Continue reading Acheivement unlocked: Public Speaking (10G)

Gran Canaria

I’m in Gran Canaria for the next week to attend the Desktop Summit with a bunch of OTC folk. Yummy Rob has already blogged about the talks our team are giving, so I’ll just mention my talk. I was going to be sharing a slot with Marcel in his ConnMan talk and discussing my work… Continue reading Gran Canaria

Interesting OS tidbits

Spent some time on Sunday reading about various operating systems. Fun things learnt: 1. /proc (procfs), as a concept, originated from Plan 9. 2. Windows NT‘s kernel is a microkernel, just like Minix and Hurd. Well, not just like. NT isn’t a pure microkernel, but I had no idea it even used some microkernel concepts.… Continue reading Interesting OS tidbits