Monthly Archives: July 2009

New GPG key

July 25, 2009

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256,SHA1 I’ve updated my GPG key because of the issue described at http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/48. The new key is available from key servers and the fingerprint can be found here: http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GPG/Fingerprint In due course I will revoke the old key as superseded, but that won’t happen for a while yet. In accordance [...]

Open Source Virtualisation in education

July 23, 2009

On Monday I gave a talk at the Open Source Schools Unconference about our experiences at work using the Xen virtualisation system. The talk was a shortened version of a case study for the Excellence Gateway, which has now been published. You can read it here. It includes a photo of me trying not to [...]

Remembering Richard

July 23, 2009

Free Software advocate Richard Rothwell died last week. I knew Richard through his work in the Free Software community. Richard was one of those people who I seemed to see at every conference I went to. AFFSAC, FLOSSIE, FOSDEM, you name it, he was there. It is ironic that I heard of his death at [...]

Transmission Cake Protocol

July 23, 2009

On Tuesday I was invited to the tenth birthday party for MQTT, which is, as I understand it, a messaging protocol. Ubuntu UK Podcast regular correspondent and creator of the tweeting house, Andy Stanford-Clark asked me to come along, have a sandwich and take some photos. That’s close enough to a commission in my book. [...]

Podcoder – consistently tag and encode your podcast

July 22, 2009

Before the first episode of the Ubuntu podcast from the UK LoCo team was released, back in April last year, I knocked out a bash script to ensure we had consistent filenames and tags for the files we produce, right from the start. I named this script “podcoder” (short for podcast encoder, funnily enough) and [...]