March 2008 archive
Martin Sexton
Power of example
My mama said it and I heard
She says one ounce of action
Beats a ton of words.
-- Martin Sexton, "Hallelujah"
Richard Stallman
[...] I didn’t write a whole free operating system, either. I wrote some pieces and invited other people to join me by writing other pieces. So I set an example. I said, “I’m [...]
by Scott Carpenter on 30 March 2008 at 9:01 pm
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More fun with Python and regular expressions. Following up on a previous post, I wanted to share a little test regex function I wrote in Python to help me as I work through the regular expression book.
I'm mostly working at the interactive prompt and had been running commands from Python re (the regex module) [...]
by Scott Carpenter on 29 March 2008 at 10:34 am
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The other night, sort of kind of on a whim, but not really, I upgraded my main machine from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10. There were some problems, but in the end, not very serious. No need for panic.
I'd upgraded my laptop when 7.10 was released, and that went fine. The plan for my [...]
by Scott Carpenter on 27 March 2008 at 10:38 pm
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I don't want to go all 7 Habits of Highly Effective People on you, but I'll say this: I think it's good to have goals and to work towards your goals.
I like this quote, which I've seen attributed to Zig Ziglar:
"Most people fail to reach their goals not because their plans are too simple or [...]
by Scott Carpenter on 23 March 2008 at 10:33 pm
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And I'm back from the FSF meeting at M.I.T. in Cambridge. The trip went well, I enjoyed myself, and will have more to say later.
One of the highlights was meeting Richard Stallman in person. I think he is a great man, and history will recognize him as a hugely important and influential person. [...]
by Scott Carpenter on 17 March 2008 at 9:00 pm
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tagged: boston, fsf, richard stallman
"Travellin' and livin' off the web..."
I have a GPG key, freshly created a couple of days ago. GPG is the GNU Privacy Guard, also known as GnuPG, used for encryption and digital signatures.
Many people include helpful comments about GPG encryption on a page with their public key and fingerprint. Instead of making similar remarks (which [...]
by Scott Carpenter on 9 March 2008 at 10:25 am
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tagged: community, crypto, gpg, keysigning, web of trust
Well, Cambridge, actually. The Free Software Foundation is holding its Annual Associate Member Meeting at MIT on Saturday, March 15. (You can become a member and go also!) ;-)
I started mulling over the idea of attending last month. It occurred to me I might be able to get a deal on a flight with my [...]
by Scott Carpenter on 2 March 2008 at 8:03 pm
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