Happy Halloween! Take a look at my most recent article for the Pacific Sun about the last public hanging in Marin County. It resulted in a near-riot as a bloodthirsty crowd watched the hanging of a Chinese man. Sample: On…
iSeries 400 has an interview with Kyle about his book, The Official Ubuntu Server Book. They ask him technical questions that sound complicated. A sample: In chapter three, “Package Management,” you mention that packaging is usually done by distributions such…
I’m back from a trip to Portland. It has been so hot around here this summer that I half-intended to move to Portland so I can remember what rain is like, but I’m over that now. However, we had a…
Kyle Rankin on His Career in Linux Networking from Sam Bowne on Vimeo. This is a video of the speech Kyle gave last night at City College San Francisco. It is about how to be a Linux System Administrator.
I have an article in the Pacific Sun this week. It’s about how the town of Tiburon is looking at putting cameras on the roads going into town to scan the license plates of all its visitors. The fortress of…
Happy birthday! I love you!
Kyle’s newest book, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, will be out July 27. I am very excited about this one. He worked with Benjamin Mako Hill, one of Ubuntu’s founders. Prentice Hall is publishing the book. It will be Kyle’s…
“Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In…
The last day in Puerto Rico was jam packed. We went swimming in the ocean and we drove all the way down the side of the country and had a picnic on another, wilder beach, eating giant grapes and pineapple…
Happy anniversary! I like you.