tim ferro
ramblings of a code monkey, fanboy, and uber-geek

“A new Microsoft blog aimed at hackers—white hat of course—went up over the weekend, and promises to be “a little different from most other blogs you’ll see on blogs.msdn.com.”  “hackers @ microsoft” is “*especially*” provided “AS IS.” In other words, don’t expect any “white hat hacker” support from hackers @ microsoft.” - Source

“Mozilla released Firefox Campus Edition on Friday. Campus edition is Firefox 2.0.0.6 bundled with three add-ons that—according to Mozilla—are geared towards students: audio playback controller FoxyTunes, the Zotero research tool, and social site recommendation system StumbleUpon.” -Source

Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, has announced development on the next version of the popular Linux distribution named “Hardy Heron“.

and waiting for this new album to be released!

Do you grok open source? I grok open source, and it’s awesome. The challenges, depth, commitment, and advances continue to amaze me. There are tons of amazing projects (Firefox, Fedora), books (The Cathedral and the Bazaar), users (Linus Torvalds), user groups (NOVA-LUG), and blogs (linux today).

To grok is more than just to know, it means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed. I think I have done that. I started and open source project (Anchuan.Org), volunteer for Tux.Org, have given speeches about open source (at Marymount University), and am now the chief contributor of an open source software business blog (OSS-biz).

All of these things have enriched my life and given my great feelings of accomplishment. I recommend that everyone get involved with open source anyway you can. It can be anything from just using Firefox to writing kernel code. Open source is a community, and new members are always welcome.

Guster !

The fight for programming talent… - Source

Coming Soon… 

“The all-new Linux Fund Visa Card launched on July 24th. The Linux Fund began in 1999, and lasted until Bank of America bought MBNA and canceled the program earlier this year. Before that time the fund had distributed $100,000 a year on average. US Bank has inked a new deal to resurrect the program with new features. Currently, the project is open to ideas for supporting well-loved and community-supported software that is underfunded. The current list of supported projects includes Debian, Wikipedia, FreeGeek, Freenode, and Blender.” - Source

“Now that’s what I call an open source acquisition. Intrusion detection and prevention firm Sourcefire has snapped up the ClamAV, the gateway anti-virus project.” - Source