Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

zdnet has a series of “hacker profiles”. The first
profilee is Raven Alder.

…
Alder hasn’t taken a holiday “that didn’t involve computer security”
for around five years. “Most of my vacations are something like, ‘Oh,
I’ll go to Ottawa Linux Symposium, that will be fun!’,” she said.

From: "Andrew J. Hutton" 
Organization: Linux Symposium
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To: ols-announce@lists.linuxsymposium.org
Subject: [ols-announce] Paper & Presenters Listing

We have published the full listing of papers, tutorials, and bofs/meetings for 
the upcoming Linux Symposium (only 92 days away) on the website. Where links 
are not yet present, the presenter has yet to submit information.  If you are
a presenter please ensure your information has been submitted.  You can also
set your flag from your login page.

The Symposium is now over 25% booked, and there are 42 days before the end of
early registration price discounts.

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6th Annual Linux Symposium, Linux Developers Conference, Ottawa, Canada
July 21-24th, 2004
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First impression: wow, so many IBM’ers 🙂

Second impression: some good talks, some boring talks. Looks like
fun 🙂

I’ve been reading Keegan’s A History of Warfare for a while now; it starts slowly, and I’ve skipped certain passages that bored me to tears. Now, however, it’s coming to life. I’m on page 186, and the roman empire is crumbling before my eyes!

I’m bad. I’m skipping class to go hear Erez Hadad talk about the O(1) scheduler in tonight’s Haifux meeting. And I didn’t do my homework, either. Nee. I’m a bad boy and must be punished. I think I’ll use windows tomorrow![0]

[0] Don’t worry, I don’t actually have any windows machines around. Plus, it’s cruel and unusual punishment, and we don’t actually do those.

I will be giving a one day class later this week on C programming. The
audience is people who have had some programming experience, but not
necessarily in C. I just started preparing it, and here’s my tentative
agenda. Comments will be appreciated, especially on possible
exercises. Note that There’s tons of stuff missing, but it’s only a
one day class…

• one hour introduction (0900-0950): origins of c, why learn c, hello
  world, compiling with gcc on linux

• one hour syntax of c(1000-1050)
• exercise(1100-1150): small (100 line) program in c, contents TBD.
• 1200-1300: lunch break
• pointers and dynamic memory allocations(1300-1350)
• structures, ADT(Abstract Data Types) and OOP in c(1400-1450)
• exercise(1500-1600): write a program that will use dynamic memory,
  adt, oop (menu driven user interaction? interactive game?)

• different aspects of c(1600-1650) c the standard, cross platform
  c, c as portable assembler, c as an interface to the operating system,
  libraries, posix, kernel.

Stuff I won’t be talking about: general programming, debugging,
profiling, optimizing, macros, kernel hacking =)

Having just registered to OLS 2004. Happy happy joy joy!

fiasco, the colocated server that handles all email for mulix.org, appears to be having some qmail problems. I suspect Shachar’s anti-virus installation, as qmail complains about ‘temporary problems after the DATA stage’, which is exactly the point I’d expect the anti-virus to kick in.

I took a look at the server and restarted clamav and qmail, but that didn’t work. We have a pretty complicated setup and I’m afraid to mess it up worse than it is right now, so I guess it’ll wait until Shachar gets back 😦

[edit: should’ve thought of it earlier… you can always reach me at muli(at)il.ibm.com]

So, we’re going to OLS 2004. Current plans are spend a few days in Boston first (Thursday July 15th to Tuesday July 20th?), head over to Ottawa on Tuesday the 20th, meet gby and Limor there, hack^H^H^H^Hparty like mad at OLS, and then I split and head for Tucson on Sunday the 25th. Spend a week in Tucson meeting my Arizonian colleagues and conceivably even working, and then head back to .il just in time for August Penguins 2004. Sounds good to me!

Got the word at work today; OLS 2004, here I come!

[more tomorrow, too tired to tyhpe coherently right now]

It’s the end of the vacation. Back to the slave grind tomorrow. For some odd reason, I’m looking forward to it – I’m all vacationed out.