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Fri, 04 Mar 2005
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Should I do a podcast? I'm not sure I have anything interesting to say. Andrew said he might be interested in helping out. Would people listen in?
So, tell me. Would you be interested in hearing from two Australian geeks, one who hacks Windows code by day and Linux code by night, and the other who is a Debian developer who deals with commercial security products when he has to? We're helping run the coolest Linux conference in the universe, which would help us get some content to bootstrap with.
Let me know your thoughts.
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posted at: 16:01 | path: /podcast | permanent link to this entry
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I commented on mailman the other day. Steven replied in email, which is really terribly bad form, as it means that I can't link to it. It was much less embarrassing for me however.
Anyways, Steven says something along the lines of:
You can now days do quite a lot of things in mailman from email
Send an email to mailman-request@somerandomdomain.com with the subject help for example
and you will find out that stuff. Also admin messages about mail to approve
or disapproval can be replied to and managed that way from email (even in
bulk from my understanding)
I stand corrected.
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posted at: 15:53 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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Lindsay is pleased that Grant and I can help her out with Mailman (even though Mailman is a bit of a dog, it's _way_ better than listserv, which would have looked good in about 1870). The only thing that Mailman really lacks is an email admin interface so I can administer it offline, but hey, networks are pretty common, so I can live with that for now.
But back to my point. Why is it so amazing when people are willing to help other people? It's really a fairly damning comment on our society.
(Aside: what is it about Windows mail software which makes it so generally terrible?)
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posted at: 01:06 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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Chris refers to comments by Steven related to my comments about it being impossible to work in a cubicle environment. I've been noticing in the last few days that the situation is getting worse. I regularly wear headphones when I am working, which is apparently a signal not to disturb someone, and people just escalate the pain.
They knock on the desk. The cubicle walls. Me. They throw foam balls at my monitors (as in most cubicles my back faces the oncoming horde).
Ignoring them just makes them more intrusive.
I think the difference is that Chris works with a relatively small number of talented, relatively considerate people. Whilst I work with a bunch of people who honestly believe that what they want to talk to me about is the most important thing in the entire universe. I'm seriously considering working from home again. At least that way I can hopefully get some stuff done, and that's with a two year old and a three year old at my feet.
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posted at: 01:03 | path: /diary | permanent link to this entry
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