Comments for Craig Maloney

Comment on Ubuntu Global Jam: We came, we saw, we jammed. by craig

craig — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:48:11 +0000

Actually, the LTS (10.04) is supported for 3 years. 9.04 is unfortunately considered a development release, which gets 18 months of support.

If you’re willing to make the move to 10.04, you’ll still be Ubuntu support for another year before you have to make the switch to a more recent LTS (Which is coming out in April).

Here’s the wiki with the support diagram for each release:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

Comment on Ubuntu Global Jam: We came, we saw, we jammed. by suitti

suitti — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:42:11 +0000

I’m running 9.04 still. In 9.04, there’s a ton of eye candy, but you can get to a command line fairly quickly. You can also configure the menus to add what you want. I tried 10.something, and it was awful. I tried 11.something, and it was unusable. It should not take ten mouse clicks to get a fricking xterm up. I tried installing 9.04 on a new box, but the repositories are gone. You can cut yourself a CD, but then what? You can’t even get the nVidia drivers. Useless. But i have two 64 bit boxen with nVidia screens. So i cloned the existing 9.04 with dd to the other box. It’s an interim measure until i find a distribution that keeps support longer than a couple years. It takes nearly that long to get everything i want on a box. Ubuntu is dead. It didn’t need competition to kill it. It did it all by itself.

Comment on Online content and advertising: cut out the middle man by suitti

suitti — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:35:22 +0000

Definitely, patent the idea. Then no one else can use it without bowing to you like Weird Al to Jackson for permission to spoof his songs.

Comment on Online content and advertising: cut out the middle man by Wolfger

Wolfger — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:27:10 +0000

Evil. Brilliant. Patent the idea. And I would totally buy a car that way if the free viewing of The Daily Show was “for life” instead of just one episode. :-p

Comment on Ubuntu MI Global Jam 2012-03-03 by Consilience — Ubuntu Global Jam – Michigan edition

Consilience — Ubuntu Global Jam – Michigan edition — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:41:01 +0000

[...] Global Jam – Michigan editionFrom the always entertaining blog of Craig Maloney:Ubuntu MI Global Jam 2012-03-03The Global Jam (started in our great state of Michigan) is a chance for folks from around the globe [...]

Comment on Spiders and centipedes: the dichotomy by Alan

Alan — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:43:06 +0000

Kill’em all and let (insert favorite Diety/diety/scientific theory here) sort’em out!

Comment on Change changing places by craig

craig — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:40:46 +0000

Thanks, Dave. It’s Pylons / Pyramid with SQLAlchemy, so it’s right up my alley of things I want to become more familiar with. Can’t wait to get into it.

Comment on Change changing places by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:24:31 +0000

Congrats, Craig! Looking forward to hearing more about this python web development you’ll be doing

Comment on Upcoming presentation by craig

craig — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:06:06 +0000

Thanks to Gib, here’s a video of the presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7woCKQcHKDA

Comment on Techweb and Information Week: Keeping the Spam Alive by craig

craig — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:05:16 +0000

Thank you. I think I found that link before (and yes, it’s extremely well hidden). We’ll see if they stop. Their mail seems like herpes: you think you’ve gotten rid of it, and suddenly you’re covered again.

Thanks again!