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How to get paid to write open source software

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Val Henson describes her career in open source

  1.  Linux system programmers are in short supply
  2.  If you are vaguely competent and get some experience you become employed for life
  3.  Not all Linux programmers are idealists.  Now days it is a for profit motivation.
  4.  her pay profile progressed very well. Started at 150,000 per year in 1999 and doubled after 10ish years.
  5.  Telecommuting seems to be the end of the evolutionary progression
  6.  She travels all over the world to visit other programmers. 
  7. She thinks San Diego has the best weather in the world.  ( she obviously has not considered South America in that calculation )
  8. What would Val do?  If you will not get fired then why not do it ? 
  9. She knows developers who never leave the house
  10. Hours are flexible
  11. its not a 9-5 job.  She does not know anyone who does not care.  Hard to make it on 40 hours per week.
  12. Side effect is you only end up dealing with positive motivated people
  13. Open source is an enabling technology – good way to think about how and why a company would hire a person to help with open source from their point of view
  14. You have to be able to admit you do not know something.  ( duh!)   Linuxchix
  15. There are some famously rude people in the Linux community
  16. Careful with email!
  17. Some people get into open source by working on patches but much better to get a framework such as a job that gets you in contact with other people doing open source.
  18. Should be able to fairly quickly get into a position where you can telecommute 

Val Henson on LinkedIn

Vals blog

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Mibbit Chat

Mibbit.com   No Java, no flash. With Mibbit, chatting online is easy, just choose your nickname and press go! No sign-up is required and you can use it from wherever you are with just a web browser.  Connect to IRC networks, IM, twitter, and more coming soon.  Mibbit has many customizable features which can help you make the most of your chat. You can change skins and use real-time language translation, image thumbnails, or even embed Youtube clips and exchange files with other Mibbit users. 

  • Google has made a translation API that they have rolled up into the chat function so you can have an inline translation while you chat with someone who speaks another language.
  • Google map API has been harnessed to provide a general location readout of where the person you are talking with is.
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Long Lost Timothy Treadwell Death Audio

Timothy Treadwell was killed when videotaping and interaction between him and a bear.  The mauling and consumption was off camera but the audio has recently been released.

The long lost Timothy Treadwell death audio is here:  Timothy-Treadwell-Death-Audio.mp3  — The salad tossing gone horribly wrong.

The tragic death of the Nick's Pansy Farm alumni and repressed flamer queen occurred in Alaska.  It was grizzly man.

Oh if only more flaming lefties could go get themselves eaten by bears! You environmentalists should all take this as an object lesson. If you really care about the polar bears reduce your carbon footprint by turn yourself into bear feces:  Treadwell told bear scientists he welcomed death by bear. He said it would be an honor to be killed, eaten and rendered bear scat. Had National Park Service rangers not killed the bear that ate him, he would have gotten his wish.   He would crawl on his hands and knees up to bears while chanting "I love you", or singing, or reading poetry.   How beautiful.  Munch.  King of the Bipolar Bear lovers.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Luka-Sem Resposta-Without Reply

Letras de Luka

Tire um pouco o peso                            Take a little the weight
Das minhas costas                                of my back
Falta pouco tempo                                  lack little time
Prá eu ir embora                                     For I to go leave
E eu nem sei se vou voltar…                 And I in the know if you going to return

Trilhe seu caminho                                Track your road
Faça suas apostas                                 Make your bets
Mas não me deixe aqui                          But do not leave me here
Sozinha sem respostas                        Alone without replies
Que eu nem sei                                      That I in the know
Onde encontrar…                                    Where to find

Eu sou apenas                                       I am only
Uma criança indefesa                           A child indefensible
Você parece                                            You appear
Uma caixinha de surpresas                To be a boxette of surprises
Se for assim meu bem                         If for thus to be my good ( honey good)
Adeus!…                                                   God

Não tô te pedindo prá ficar                   Not going to ask you to stay
E não vou te encher                               And not going to fill you
De promessas                                       of promises
Eu te quero bem                                     I want you well
Mas no amor eu tenho pressa…         But in love I have press ( need / pressure )

Vá se acostumando                              Going to accustomate you
Com a minha ausência                        With my absence
Faça logo as pazes                               Make your peace soon
Com a sua consciência                       With your conscience
E veja se você errou…                           And see your erred

Trilhe seu caminho                               Track your road
Faça suas apostas                               Make your bets
Mas não me deixe aqui                        But not me leave here
Buscando as respostas                      Searching the responses
Que você nunca encontrou…               That you never encountered

Eu sou apenas                                       I am only
Uma criança indefesa                           A child indefensible
Você parece                                            You appear
Uma caixinha de surpresas                A boxette of surprises
Se for assim meu bem                         If were thus my good
Adeus!…                                                   God

Não tô te pedindo prá ficar                   Not going to ask you to stay
E não vou te encher                               and not going to fill you
De promessas                                       of promises
Eu te quero bem                                     I want you well
Mas no amor eu tenho pressa            But in the love I am pressed 

Eu sou apenas                      
Uma criança indefesa, ahan!
Você parece
Uma caixinha de surpresas
Se for assim meu bem
Adeus!…

Não tô te pedindo prá ficar
E não vou te encher
De promessas
Eu te quero bem
Mas no amor eu tenho pressa…(2x)
Eu te quero bem
Mas no amor eu tenho pressa…

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Ubuntu Network Setup

Back bedroom server with fixed IP setup

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This was the static IP setup for my noisy server in the spare bedroom.

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0f:1f:e2:12:e4  
          inet addr:192.168.1.104  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fee2:12e4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1964 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1753 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2323224 (2.2 MB)  TX bytes:238407 (232.8 KB)
          Interrupt:16

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1050 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1050 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:52500 (51.2 KB)  TX bytes:52500 (51.2 KB)

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

My theory on how ground pounder car audio systems originated

Have you ever noticed a really strong base ground pounding car stereo?  Here in Arizona we have alot of mexicans and they love these things.   My theory is that the original pounder car audio systems were set up as a way to set of car alarms.  By doing this the car break in thieves could weed out the alarmed cars and do break ins on the unalarmed cars.  After a while stupid white boys started copying.  Its in the same vein as to why crotch dragging pants started for shop lifting.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago