jonathan carter

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Archive for September, 2005

Backups - No more excuses

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

I remember the first time I decided to re-install all the software on my computer. It was 1993, and I was 10 years old. There were some strange files on my filesystem, called $AMES, $ROGS and $EMP. I think it came from undelete being a bit broken. I couldn’t delete those files either, and I […]

Software Freedom Day 2005

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

Today is Software Freedom Day. Go-Open Source funded the event at Canal Walk in Cape Town. A whole bunch of freaks from CLUG, SLUG, the Shuttleworth Foundation, University Western Cape, City of Cape Town and a few faces from Obsidian and other open source companies came together to celebrate and promote free software.
Early in […]