A bit of penguin humour for you this evening...

Thanks go to Sam for sharing this gem...

Searching the web for some info on automated network management, Google found this gem for me on bash.org...

http://bash.org/?870497

Every two weeks, for the past 4 years, the award winning LugRadio team put out a podcast talking about the latest linux / oss news and having very colourful discussions about their very polarised views on all things linux.

They have even had live weekend events, which, at the time I wished I was able to attend, and am now very sad that I didn't.

Guys, the OSS community is going to miss you.

More info here and here.

... but not just any baseball cap, an Ubuntu one!

This comment on Linux.com makes a really valid point, and it's an extension of what I touched on before with respect to Linux marketing, and foolish acronyms.

But, what to do? What indeed.

We need to find a way to encourage more people to adopt the open source way of life.
I think Quinn and I have found the solution. What follows is a exerpt of the transcript of a conversation we had earlier today...

3:51 PM Quinn: fiddlesticks! a friend at work is about to cave in and reformat his (ubuntu) laptop to put windows back on.
intervention time! what do i say?
3:52 PM me: I have already failed to prevent this with Angie's laptop
She must now use it for work
It must have offie
office
Bye bye Ubuntu
I was gutted
Quinn: these people have no stomach for the war that must be fought.
me: Reason for divorce? Irreconcilable differences? :-p
3:53 PM Quinn: he needs more hdd space. for his pr0n collection probably.
me: That is exactly the problem. There are not enough extremists in the world, and the ones that exist prefer to blow themselves up for Islam
3:55 PM Quinn: dammit. if only we could convince them to blow themselves up for linux instead.
i bet uncle bill would change his tune pretty quick after a few suicide bombers ran through the offices at redmond
hmm. what a disturbing turn this conversation has taken.
3:56 PM me: They could shout "For Software Freedom!" just before detonating