A recent Gallup poll found that nurses remain the most trusted profession in their annual U.S. poll at 83% (“High/Very high” trust). Closest behind the nurses are pharmacists/druggists at 66%, just a point above medical doctors at 65%. Why am I reporting this? The Gallup headline for their own results is, “U.S. Clergy, Bankers See [...]
Wow, I just saw the saddest thing. It’s a section of the Wikipedia article about Red Hat, listing programs and projects that Red Hat does in the free software and open source communities. This is ‘programs and projects’ in the sense of, “Build a road is a project, build a freeway system is a program.” [...]
… the key being, I want to drink our own champagne, so it should run Fedora or RHEL as the hosted Linux. And I want it to source, cook, serve, and clean-up the entire meal for me. The project is going to run a MediaWiki instance and git+gitweb, maybe with a few plugins, and that’s [...]
Perhaps I’ve missed one in the past, I don’t recall, but my t-shirt drawer says I’ve been to most of the FUDCons in North America since they started. As it happens, I have to skip the one this coming weekend in Toronto. I haven’t been to that fair city and I’d looked forward to meeting [...]
This launch and ascent video is phenomenal. The editing makes a lot of it, but it’s the sheer quality and multiple angles of footage in the first place that make it a real adrenalin rush. Two words: “booster cam”. ‘Nuff said. STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights on Vimeo:
