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  • LWN.net Covers GeekPAC

    This was an article published on LWN, written by Lisa Hoover. A very nice compendium of who we are and what we’re about:

    Link to article.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-13

    • @mjasay @bryce you guys are scaring me 🙁 I guess I still have a few years to go yet #
    • hey this phelps guy isn’t bad 🙂 #
    • Ugh… USA down to 10 men to Nigeria… and now down a goal. #olympics #
    • halftime USA 0 : 1 NGR Orozco for US gets tossed in 4th minute for an elbow, and it’s all downhill from there. #olympics #
    • aaarrrrggg… holden misses the open net. still Nigeria 1-0 53rd minute #olympics #
    • Football is a cruel sport. USA crashes out of the first round of the olympics losing 2-1 to NGR #
    • US were 1min away from advancing when they inexplicably fouled the Dutch who converted the free kick. fscking dutch #olympics #
    • @jclingan guilty as charged 🙂 #
    • @hunleyd woah, now you’ve got me curious 😉 #
    • @DaveTaylor US really should have done better. Honestly, they looked better than the rest of group B. Too many mental lapses and naive play #
    • @DaveTaylor being a US soccer fan is very much akin to rooting for the Cubs. you know you’re gonna lose, and coming close just hurts more #
    • @lisah mmmm… cupcakes! #
    • So… did anyone die from the VMware bug? Hey @ragavan I’m talking to you 🙂 #
    • @timoreilly subprime was the worst of both worlds. As was the CA energy “deregulation” debacle. just regulated enough to prevent competition #
    • @TheInfovore yeah, exactly. it was a cruel fate for the USA this time around. On the plus side, I think we filled some nice holes for 2010 #
    • @guyma bah, I’ve been here all along. where have you been? 😉 #
    • @jrep so what do you do with all those silly exchange calendar requests? it’s the only reason I use evolution. #
    • just lost my zappos virginity. not sure how I feel about that. #
    • every now and then, I peruse crackmonkey.org and pigdog.org to remind myself what the internet used to be. #
    • @daveofdoom bah, just use kopete already 😉 #
    • @NetDiva oh, now I feel much better… er something #
    • @kucharo oh baby… just when you thought it was safe #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-12

    • rt @timoreilly “Andy Oram: Developing an improved online environment for educating computer users http://tinyurl.com/6kxahh ” #
    • @sogrady yes, although it’s been too long to tell you exactly how #
    • cool, LWN will cover GeekPAC. Have you shown your support yet? http://tinyurl.com/5lz8as #
    • @jclingan LOL… I feel your pain. that’s exactly what I’m doing now 🙁 #
    • weird. Evolution mail client has actually been more stable than GMail. Huh. #
    • rt @CollabNet “CollabNet SVN 1.5.1 for Windows now available, in all its awesome glory: http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/ ” #
    • @joshmccormack really? the search bar is one of the few things I actually like about it #
    • @lisah LOL… I always assume the interviewer knows but asks anyway because readers/listeners/viewers might not 🙂 #
    • bug fix packs for CollabNet Subversion 1.5.1 on RedHat – x86_64: http://is.gd/1oTG and x86_32: http://is.gd/CuF #
    • Do you believe in govt. transparency? Disclosure of campaign contribs? Support senate bill 223: http://is.gd/1oXq #geekpac #
    • @jrep *sigh* sad but true #
    • @brianaker that really does seem to be the future – clouds as surplus resource during usage spikes. That’s how @CollabNet uses it 🙂 #
    • @rachelchalmers re: writing headlines as if they were a tweet – what a great idea! #
    • @timoreilly that’s @puppermasterd to you 🙂 #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-11

    • @MikeTRose I just wish I could experience NBC’s Silverlight-powered website for myself *grumble* #
    • #olympics beautiful sequence from Arg vs. Aus today: http://tinyurl.com/5f8qe2 #
    • special thanks go out to @lisah @irabinovitch and @billpollock for supporting GeekPAC! #
    • via /. New Yorker article on “the tragedy of the anti-commons” http://tinyurl.com/6pfnto #
    • @Silona hey, where can I see info on your tracker protocol? I’d like to circulate that around here #
    • doh… got my first google apps failure for the day. now I know what everyone was talking about #
    • So… why do we trust Apple? http://tinyurl.com/58qqne #
    • @jzemlin since I had to name-drop you to get in the LF party, I figure I should at least follow you on twitter 🙂 #
    • @jzb 🙂 an oblique reference to the open sourcies who happily purchase iPr0ns #

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  • PublicKnowledge: Benefits of iPhone App Store tainted by 1984-like Control

    – or –

    Do We Really Like the Taste of Apple’s Remote-Kill KoolAid?

    Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. Clearly, having an easy way for mobile users to download apps is a good way to spur development and make money. According to Apple, over the past month the App Store has sold $30 million in iPhone and iPod touch apps. Of those sales, Apple should take in about $9 million, as it keeps about 30% of each app sold. While some application developers have complained about the revenue split, when one considers the costs associated with hosting the applications, cost of money changing hands, and general maintenance of the store, 30% is not unreasonable. What is increasingly unreasonable is the way Apple is controlling the App Store, both to the detriment of developers and consumers. read more

  • PublicKnowledge: Benefits of iPhone App Store tainted by 1984-like Control

    – or –

    Do We Really Like the Taste of Apple’s Remote-Kill KoolAid?

    Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. Clearly, having an easy way for mobile users to download apps is a good way to spur development and make money. According to Apple, over the past month the App Store has sold $30 million in iPhone and iPod touch apps. Of those sales, Apple should take in about $9 million, as it keeps about 30% of each app sold. While some application developers have complained about the revenue split, when one considers the costs associated with hosting the applications, cost of money changing hands, and general maintenance of the store, 30% is not unreasonable. What is increasingly unreasonable is the way Apple is controlling the App Store, both to the detriment of developers and consumers.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-10

    • listening to jackie sing ‘theres a dinosaur knocking at my door, and hewants to have shabbat with me’ #
    • woke up this morning just in time to see team usa squander lead to dutch. scheisse. usa still first in group. #olympics #
    • team USA will have to make do w/o Bradley or Adu vs. Nigeria: http://tinyurl.com/5m7ync #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-09

    • @montag and you work there because… ? #
    • watching opening ceremonies. is it time for soccer yet? #
    • cathy laughing at me because I didn’t know some swimmer dude named phelps. #
    • Way to go nbcolympics.com – way to lock out users from your web site. Asshats. #
    • @laurencooney yeah, I got the drooling look from Cathy and figured that was all I really needed to know 😉 #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-08

    • @tam911 anybody who quotes cibo matto is cool by me 😉 #
    • Here’s where I respond to @dmarti and his ill-fated slam on GeekPAC: http://tinyurl.com/2z56qh/41423 #
    • @CollabNet_Jenny welcome! I’ll be retweeting your stuff often 🙂 #
    • @toronado good to see you on twitter. now could you get rid of your asshole bartenders? #
    • wow, what a great post by Andy O.: http://tinyurl.com/5p33s6 #
    • @linuxlibrarian 🙂 I very much <3 @dmarti – even if he dislikes http://www.geek-pac.org but he’s wrong on this one 🙂 #
    • @montag well… how much time does it take to learn how to type “select * from blah”? #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-07

    • @DaveTaylor tried vimeo? and what about google video? #
    • at the ubucon http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubucon/SanFrancisco #
    • at ubucon watching @ripcitylyman #
    • #ubucon andrew fife talking about the ubuntu installfest for schools. #
    • @yasumoto thanks 🙂 #
    • #ubucon @einfeldt discussing the digital tipping point #
    • #ubucon “they saved $20K on brick machines by ‘open sourcing’ the brick machines” #
    • #ubucon listening to dr. sameer verma talk about ltsp on ubuntu at the sfsu lab #
    • @rossturk lol! that’s because you’re not at #ubucon 😉 #
    • @rossturk there are many many stories about how linuxworld dropped the ball. I can share #
    • @rossturk that’s only part of the story #
    • @rossturk linux is mainstream but linuxworld didn’t have to get boring. macs are mainstream, is macworld boring? #
    • #ubucon all about deki and dekiscript. thanks @mindtouch 🙂 #
    • and that’s a wrap. who’s up for beer? #
    • @storming @rossturk you guys still around? #

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