Monthly Archives: July 2013

Line buffering (and talking computers and irc meetings)

When I was a kid, I wanted computers to talk to me (and vice versa). Why, decades later, am I still squinting at the screen during hour-long irc meetings? Basta! So the last two weeks I’ve been listening to our … Continue reading

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Creating and using containers – without privilege

Today I posted a (working but mainly POC) patchset against lxc which allows me to create and start ubuntu-cloud containers – completely as an unprivileged user. For more details see the introductory email to the patchset at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1374246151-7069-9-git-send-email-serge.hallyn%40ubuntu.com&forum_name=lxc-devel Glossing over … Continue reading

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RSS

When I saw the news that Google reader was going away, my first thought, like a lot of other people, was “woohoo, it’s going to be fun writing a new way to follow RSS.” This past weekend I looked at … Continue reading

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