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It’s a good time to be on Twitter

2/14/2008 – 4:53 pm
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Twitter is a micro-blogging platform resting somewhere in between IRC and e-mail. It is a nice informal way of staying in touch and people are inclined to use it because of the quick and easy format.

Primarily I use twitter to stay up to date on local Portland tech but it seems that the Novell and OpenSuSE twitter users are growing.

If you want to add me on twitter my account name is philips.

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Geeky music, tools and bugs

8/17/2007 – 10:30 pm
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Today’s discoveries:

  • TCC is a tiny C compiler that allows you to do #!/usr/bin/tcc -run at the top of C files! It is really handy for those 20 line test programs.

Things I am working on:

  • Today I wrote what seems like a proper solution to a QEMU bug that was causing CDROM devices to be unhappy under recent Kernel versions. The bug turns out to be really simple but it took a bit of time to learn about ATAPI and AT devices to understand what was failing.
  • I am also working on a patch to give quilt the ability to pull down a series and all patches via http/ftp. It is a bit frustrating being pointed at a patches/ directory but having no quick way of pulling them into your series.
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Life: an update

7/28/2007 – 1:50 pm
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I have not blogged recently because of a number of life changes. I will try to fix that now that I have a steady location and job. To clear the air here is everything I have been doing in a chronological list.

  • Graduated from Oregon State University with a computer science degree.
  • Traveled to Vienna, Austria to visit Nisha George who is working for TTTech
  • Started working for SuSE Labs/Novell as a Kernel developer
  • Moved into a neighborhood (SE Portland) right next to Ron Jackson and Karla Beck! Ron has been a great mentor and worked with me on the Bob project
  • Went to a drive in theater for the first time, double feature of Die Hard 4 and Transformers, awesome!
  • Visited the only American owned sake brewery, Sake One, and bought a sake keg. :)
  • Went to OSCON and met a bunch of Novell and Debian people. Living in Portland is going to Rock!
  • Volunteering to help with the Linux Plumbers Conf

Life is good, I am having fun and I will be blogging again soon.

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