NYC Grassroots Media Conference

The NYC Grassroots Media Alliance has announced the date for the next conference: Sunday, March 2 - be sure to mark your calendars.

OpenID for content

Every day we post content on web sites run by people that we trust, or know a little, or don’t know at all, or in many cases explicitly don’t trust, or really, just about every variation within these categories of trust.

Optimizing a drupal site in a hurry

To help boost performance on the http://wsf2008.net site Ben asked me to research APC and memcache.

Riseup and Texas MEP on Social Networking

Riseup and Texas MEP put together a workshop on social network from a critical perspective.

Setting Bell Beeps in SILC

In the best tradition of “quick write it down before I forget it again” I am blogging about how to enable two people running silc to send each other a beep.

SMTP Problems, old and new

I received 100 back scatter messages in my inbox today. As someone who receives mail for dozens of system email messages (like root@ and www-data@), this number is higher than usual, but not something so odd that it concerns me.

The Internet in 2008 without high speed access

Working on tech support in Guatemala City in October 2008 for the Social Forum of the Americas is having a profound impact on my assumptions.

The state of linux on the desktop

In 2001 I was certain that the linux desktop revolution was just around the corner.

The wonders of ps2pdf

I really don’t like printing. Most things I print just end up in the recycle bin or lost.

Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) and bcm43xx wireless cards on Dell Vostro 1000

UPDATE: I spoke too soon! I’m leaving this full post for reference purposes, however, before trying to implement it - please seem comment below about how it didn’t work after all.