I have signed up for Project 52 a personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on my website. Which means I will be writing a blog post a week. I am currently coming up with some interesting topic to write about, but if you have any suggestions please suggest them to me.
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This is some spam I received today.
To: me@mylesbraithwaite.com
Subject: Private Invitation
From: Mr Yasir Ali
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:51:01 +0100
Dear: President/C.E.O.
Good Day.
It is my pleasure to request for your honest assistance. This request may seem strange but I will crave your indulgence and pray that you view it seriously.
My name is Mr Yasir Ali from Pakistan. purchasing agent to leader of Jundollah militant group in Pakistan.
Due to the Pakistan Army's offensive in South Waziristan, I was mandated by a senior rebel leader to purchase arms and ammunition from a private dealer in Russia worth Ten Million American Dollars Only. The said amount was moved through Iran boarder on the 17Th of September 2009 to Russia.
It was quite unfortunate that upon my arrival, I immediately change my mind against purchasing of arms in the name of war of Islam. I have succeeded on diverting the fund into a security storage company.
I pray to Allah to forgive me for all the innocent people killed during my service to the rebel force. I have promise my self and Allah never to involve in any form of crime to humanity through out my life time.
In view of the above, I will never like to go back to Pakistan again because of my life and wish to invest this funds under your umbrella and supervision.
I will also seek your assistant to help me secure traveling documents for my wife and two children.
In summary.
I needed your assistant and protection to the funds. Base on the above detail information, I will highly appreciate if my request is given utmost priority and consideration.
Greetings,
Mr Yasir Ali Secure ID: -@live.com
I have uploaded my slides from my Ontario [GNU] Linux Fest 2009 talk on Apache CouchDB. You can download the PDF or see the Slideshare or view a HTML outline.
Inspired by Andrew Currie What I'll be checking out at #oglf09 here is what talks I am going to be attending at this years Ontario Linux Fest.
Enterprise Content Management Meets Open Source
Digital content is the lifeblood of any business in the information economy and companies ignore the care and feeding of electronic content at their own peril. ECM (Enterprise Content Management) could be one of the hottest areas of open source in 2010 and beyond. Attend this session to learn about the fundamentals of ECM - why the technology matters and why business users care about it. Learn the basics of content lifecycle management, what compliance means to information management professionals and why the time is right to change some of the perceptions about open source for business applications.
Ubuntu Netbook and Moblin Remixes
Netbooks are all the rage lately and there are a plethora of choices of what to run on your netbook. In this talk I will demo the newest versions of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix and the Ubuntu Moblin Remix and highlight the features of both environments. This talk is meant for people who might be new to Linux and want a glimpse of what's happening with netbooks.
Introduction to the Beagleboard
For only $149 (US), you too can get into the world of embedded Linux computing with the ARM-based Beagleboard. Speaker Rob Day will give an overview of the board, plus demonstrate it running at least one of the Angstrom and Android operating systems.
Robert P.J. Day
My Apache CouchDB talk.
Enterprise grade messaging in Fedora with Apache Qpid
Apache Qpid is an enterprise grade messaging solution with a proven track record and a growing community. It is currently in live production in several large scale financial institutions. Qpid is a multi language implementation of the AMQP protocol with brokers in c++ and java and clients in c++,java,python,ruby and c#. It provides infrastructure for scalable, reliable, secure, low latency messaging that can be used in a myriad of applications not just enterprise messaging. From a community aspect it is one of the first open source projects to receive a substantial contribution from Microsoft. Recently Microsoft contributed a WCF client and provided substantial support by way of funding developers to work on a windows port of the c++ broker. It has a growing community with contributions from large organizations, academic institutions, individual contributors and google summer of code students ..etc. This talk will provide an overview of Apache Qpid and discuss how it could benefit your community project or your organization using examples. It will also cover how to get hold of the bits and better yet how to become a contributor.
I will be in the GTALUG booth talking to folks.
Evernote is a note taking service that has clients for Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone, and some other systems I don't use. Which is great but I doesn't support Linux.
The installation process is really simple just install Wine and download Evernote 3.1 for Windows (not the beta). Next just type in wine ~/Downloads/Evernote_3.1.0.1225.exe and follow the normal installation process.
Evernote is really cool, but as you can see from the screen shot above, it doesn't look so good. But I am impressed though that Wine added the Tray icon to my Gnome notification area.