Author Archive

Weekend Project: Take Control of Vim’s Color Scheme

Posted by on Saturday, 28 January, 2012

Vim's syntax highlighting and color schemes can be a blessing, or a curse, depending on how they're configured. If you're a Vim user, let's take a little time to explore how you can make the most of Vim's color schemes.


A Very Short Rant About "Copyrighted" Code

Posted by on Friday, 27 January, 2012

This morning I was reading a site that regularly covers free and open source software. To protect the guilty party (because I suspect the error was one of rushed writing rather than ignorance), I'll leave out the publication and author. However, I do want to surface the error. The author wrote about making sure that “copyrighted code” doesn't get into the Linux kernel. What?


Looking Back on SCALE 10x

Posted by on Wednesday, 25 January, 2012

A lot of things change in 10 years. Many of the Linux conferences we were going to in 2002 are no longer around, but the Southern California Linux Expo has not only survived – it's grown into a major event for anybody interested in Linux. Whether you're brand-new to Linux or using Linux to power cloud solutions, SCALE 10x had something for everybody.