Technically, they are in the Kirkland office.  Sign up and get notified of upcoming talks.  I attended one by Vint Cerf that was very elucidating.

I had previously used ext2fsd, but that was quite a pain to set up.  This has a nice installer and lets you map your Linux drive right to a drive letter in Windows because it is a full kernel-mode file system driver (Installable File System driver).  It supports read/write too.  Doesn’t support any security on the drive so caveat emptor.

Heard a snippet of this great song by Holly Near that I heard on a podcast.  You can get the song on her website for free.

gears

Seems as if many devices don’t like Linux’s USB device autosuspend feature.  Many will stop functioning and will need to be disconnected and reconnected to function again.  I’ve got a multi-card reader that will hang and get these errors.  It was a problem on my old computer and is still plaguing me on my new one.  Glad to see that it’s going to be fixed.  Newer kernels >= 2.6.22 have a feature that lets you turn autosuspend off without having to recompile the kernel:

The rumours are true.  Google is officially both on the Eastside and Westside now.  Now they could make me an offer I couldn’t refuse…  I wouldn’t prefer to work in Kirkland but even Fremont would be a jaunt more than Downtown.

These are pretty amazing and tragic to look at.  I hope Seattle gets going on replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct that I travel on every day to work…

This is so cool.

Just suffered through some lame apache module syntax changes on Ubuntu after upgrading to 7.0.4.  This is why I don’t skip major versions…

The FBI is becoming clever with technology – and the local bureau at that.  Very nice work.