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Date: November 10th, 2007

freelancers, bounties && FOSS

10 November, 2007 (12:17) | FOSS | No comments

I remember some time ago, when we were discussing about a potential Ideastorm-like website for FOSS, someone I don’t remember came up with the idea of cumulative bounties: I put a five-euros bounty of a idea, someone else put 10 dollars on the same idea, and so on, and we end with great prizes for […]

Live rocket experience

10 November, 2007 (07:24) | Internet | No comments

Going to Japan is my dream. I think a strong interest in japanese culture and anime has something to do with it. And since I’m in Singapore for the semester, it is probably my last opportunity before long to explore this country. So yesteday I bought a flight to Japan and 7 nights in a […]

Gaining root access with grub

10 November, 2007 (07:10) | Ubuntu | No comments

Security in Linux is strong. Because of the Unix security culture, and the constant attention brought to it (latest example is the PolicyKit effort).
But I am still wondering why the grub ability to edit the kernel parameters is activated by default on at least one major distribution (Ubuntu to name it). Just add the “single” […]