When strawberries get to be the size of cantaloupes, you know, there might be something going on with that.

STACKS

Good:
Pancake Stacks
Marshall Stacks
Stacks of Blocks
Stacks of Twenties

Bad:
Enterprise Software Stacks
Smoke Stacks
Stacks of Bills

from the Tom-Tom installation screen:

Are you from the US or from Canada?

Yes.

I’m in the market for a GPS and was looking over the usual Tom Tom vs Garmin Stuff.

It turns out the decision making on brands is pretty easy. Tom Tom’s run Linux and Garmin has “MSN Direct” or something on some of their units. Wow, that was easy.

(And yes, I won’t buy a GM car now because of MS Sync… not that I would anyway. Didn’t there used to be jokes about having to “reboot” cars? I know that’s just the entertainment OS but that is some scary stuff!)

Not baaad, I like what ewe have done.

GWB will happy to know I am doing my part to stimulate the German economy with his tax credit funding.

Random power chords have never sounded so good.

You can see a mention of Cobbler in this post by Red Hat’s CIO.

Cobbler has a lot of interesting ways it can be going, and I am thankful to be inundated with patches from others at this point helping it go there. It’s going to be getting a lot better at low-level datacenter rollout tasks, from recent patches to support BIND, OMAPI, and so forth… and I may venture into the system imaging territory (finding good OSS projects to integrate) and doing a bit more about installing that other OS as well. It’s growing up, and I need to clone myself.

The past focus has been around supporting very large install bases — authn, authz, multiple servers, etc — in a sense, a depth first dive into “enterpriseyness”, without all the complexity. The future is really about breadth-first feature add and fleshing out all the nice stuff, while also making it easy to understand and deploy all the nice stuff without it feeling like a front panel full of DIP switches. There are a lot of corner cases in datacenter rollouts and we want to cover all the things you’re going to want and make that all easy to understand (which is reason for me to go explore Publican in a bit and do some more writing). So, please share what you are doing with it, if you are using it already, and all of the clever little hacks you’ve figured out.

If anyone is interested in doing stuff around the system imaging area (or even helping Windows rollouts), please do ping me. We have a huge list of ideas to expand upon. Some where in this, I also need to steal some more time for Func again — I’m looking forward to the GSOC guys piling on as well. It’s a good time to join up with either project and start following them if you haven’t already.

I earned my RHCE Friday. (verification URL).

Today was “take your camera to work” day at Red Hat.

As usual I didn’t take many pictures of people, so here’s a picture of zeus’s frog.

Func welcomes two students to the Google Summer of Code program — Krzysztof Adamski and Denis Kurov.

I’m very excited about this, and a huge thanks goes out to Google for making this program possible.