rsec, msec, sectool.. hmmm… I smell opportunities
So I was approached by Eugeni, one of my former fellows at Mandriva, today about some collaboration in regards to Mandriva’s msec and my way-back-when fork for Annvix, rsec. He wrote a blog post about msec’s future and plans detailing the things he wants to do with msec in the future. So he dropped me(…)
Never a dull moment with Mandriva…
Well, today is my last day and so without much fanfare I say “adieu” to Mandriva. As the title indicates, never a dull moment. You get spoiled with new stuff, then have to go back and re-setup old stuff. Part of this switch for Oden is that the build system goes with him, but of(…)
Leaving Mandriva… again
Well, that cat is out of the bag now (finally). As noted here: http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/01/23/goodbye-vincent-welcome-back-oden/ I am leaving Mandriva after almost 9 years. And I quote: After nearly 9 years, Vincent Danen will be leaving Mandriva at the end of this month. Again we would like to thank him for his commitment and endeavour whilst at(…)
Mandriva update statistics
Some statistics, before I go on holidays until the end of the year. Looking at bugfix updates, we’ve seen a steady increase since I’ve kept track (going back to 1999, although I think in 1999 it was only a half-year of doing updates). 1999: 13 2000: 24 2001: 25 2002: 27 2003: 44 2004: 64(…)
Sad metrics on community decline
I’ve been saying it for a while, but never really put hard evidence to it. Our community has declined and by the numbers I’ll produce, I’m going to say it declined a lot. I just wrote a quick shell script to parse the number of messages posted to each given list (cooker, expert, and newbie)(…)
Do we matter?
A good friend of mine has over the last little while been feeding me some really great books that have made me re-evaluate a lot of things. The first book is “PresentationZen” (ISBN: 978-0-321-52565-9) which gives some really great ideas regarding presentation design and delivery of presentations. While it primarily focuses on design pertaining to(…)