Posts Tagged ‘ Linux ’

Interesting Explorations Into FS Wonkitude

In taking a closer look at the wonky world of filesystems, I found some pretty crazy stuff. One thing that I have been looking at for awhile has been ZFS which could help us in the lab with our quest for NAS. I asked my buddy Herschel for some tips on it and he pointed [ READ MORE ]

OSLab In Photos

In moving into the Evergreen Advanced Operating Systems Laboratory, I have decided to take a few photos. Peruse them here. Check out our clusters (we have 4 of them) and our workstation setup. I’ll be taking out the workstations and setting up terminal services using LTSP (for netbooting in the lab) and FreeNX (maybe if [ READ MORE ]

Israelis Uncover Linux PRNG Flaw

In a proud moment for me, as a Zionist and a Computer Science student, Israeli CS folks have announced that they have uncovered a critical flaw in the Linux pseudo-random number generator. Yasher Koakh and thank you to them. Paper here and Digg here[ READ MORE ]

Autopackage Takes A Beating

As pointed out by my friend grifferz, it seems that Autopackage has been taking a beating on Planet Debian recently. I sort of like Autopackage as an application but I often have trouble with some of their attitudes. I agree wholehartedly with what Jeff Licquia, Eric Schubert and Daniel Stone have to say on the [ READ MORE ]

LugRadio Bingo

Inspired by the LugRadio Drinking Game, I have taken the liberty of creating a Python CGI app to render bingo boards for LugRadio. Bascially, you go to this page and print out a board. Everytime a word on your board is mentioned, you mark it off. First person to get five in a consecutive row [ READ MORE ]

Ubuntu Security Notice Monitor theme for Superkaramba

In conjunction with my fantastic Czech designer Ricardo, I have created a Superkaramba theme that will display the 10 latest Ubuntu Security Notice report titles in a widget on your desktop. I think it’s rather cool. Grab a copy at kde-look.org[ READ MORE ]

More Superkaramba and Seti@Home at TESC

In coding and doing other assorted tasks, I have updated my kernel version monitor theme for Superkaramba. It now parses the kernel.org RSS feed instead of the kernel.org finger banner using the Orchard Data Manipulation Framework. It’s up to v.0.4 and has several enhancements over the original release mentioned such as being completely Python powered [ READ MORE ]

All Things Must Have A Beginning…

Today my project really began. I drove up to Tacoma with Judie and had my first visit to the Enginehouse Coffee and Deli. It was soooooo super cute. I can really see it being a huge hit. The location is great also with it being right off the freeway and on a major bus route. [ READ MORE ]

Kernel Version Monitor for Superkaramba

I have created a Superkaramba theme that displays a widget with the current version of the Linux kernel as put forth by kernel.org. I think it’s wicked cool. Please give it a try and then tell me how to make it better. I think I’ll try to make the backend Python at some point instead [ READ MORE ]

Home Again, Home Again. For A Week

In light of a break in classes on account of Thanksgiving, I have come home for a little bit. A week in fact. So this is college? You vacation at your own house? Cool. This gives me a tremendous opportunity to do all the things I have been needing to do. Get a haircut. See [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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