We got a really really nice review of Mandriva 2008.1 over on Linux.com. Good stuff. It's nice to see the kind words for all the hard work the developers and community have put into this release.

I'm off to the airport now. Should be in France tomorrow at 9am their time (1am my time). Praying for a good flight! For the first time in eight years I will be meeting my co-workers face-to-face. Quite exciting stuff!

Industry Canada has posted a study entitled The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada, the description of which is:

Industry Canada undertook a music file sharing study during 2006-07 to measure the extent to which music downloads over peer-to-peer …

This comic amuses me. It's originally at http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png

The Register has just put up an article entitled After Debian releases SSL patch, a world of hurt for security pros. On page 2, I'm quoted which is cool, but what isn't cool is that the two typos in the article happen in my "quotes". Strange thing is that it …

Last week's Techmail is Log Linux services with runit (although I'm pretty sure that's not the original title I submitted). Anyways, it discusses logging various services running under runit using svlogd, so you can completely separate services from each other. Syslog is cool, but too much stuff gets crammed in …

In light of the recent Debian debacle and to get the word out to more people, this week's Techmail is Find and fix weak OpenSSL/OpenSSH keys: Debian-based Linux vulnerability which more or less reiterates what happened with the Debian OpenSSL... fun... and points to the dowkd.pl script that …

It's been an amusing morning reading more takes on the Debian OpenSSL issue. While I was in the know before most others due to vendor-sec, and was able to quickly verify this didn't affect Mandriva, the fallout still continues. For those that think otherwise, this is a big issue, and …

At the end of the month Mandriva is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary. I didn't think I was going to be able to get to come, but it turns out that I am (thanks Anne!). This is very cool for me because in June I'll be celebrating two anniversaries of …

Found this interesting comic today.. Fred linked to it in IRC and I just had to share.