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On IDs

When programming software that cooperates with software running on behalf of other users, other sessions or other computers it is often necessary to work with unique identifiers. These can be bound

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On the Brokenness of File Locking

It's amazing how far Linux has come without providing for proper file locking that works and is usable from userspace. A little overview why file locking is still in a very sad state: To begin with,

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Addendum on the Brokenness of File Locking

I forgot to mention another central problem in my blog story about file locking on Linux (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking): Different machines have access to different features of the same

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Interview With Yours Truly

Here's a podcast interview with yours truly (http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/ogg/160) where I speak a little about PulseAudio and systemd. Seek to 64:43 for my lovely impetuous voice. There's also an

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Beating a Dead Horse

I guess it's a bit beating a dead horse, but I had a good laugh today when I learned (http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/services/gnome-census/) that I alone contributed more to GNOME than the

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Dear Canonical,

#ignore yes Today I came across this blog post of your design team (http://design.canonical.com/2010/08/ubuntu-needs-a-new-sound-theme/). In context of the recent criticism you had to endure

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Dear Lazy Web,

does anybody know how to decode those Lenovo ThinkPad model IDs? I am interested in the T410s. For example, there's the model NUK3AGE, and there's NUHFXGE, and there's NUHYXGE. Some web sites claim

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systemd for Administrators, Part 1

As many of you know, systemd (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd) is the new Fedora init system, starting with F14, and it is also on its way to being adopted in a number of other

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systemd Status Update

It has been a while since my original announcement of systemd (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html). Here's a little status update, on what happened since then. For simplicity's sake I'll

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Video Interview With Yours Truly

Google just published a video interview with yours truly (http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/09/interviews-from-guadec-part-3.html). Watch it! Oh, and Vincent, I even put on a red shirt for

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systemd for Administrators, Part II

Here's the second installment of my ongoing series about systemd for administrators (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html). Which Service Owns Which Processes? On most Linux

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FOSS.in CFP Deadline Approaching!

I just submitted my paper[1] for FOSS.in 2010 in Bangalore/India. Don't forget to submit yours! The CFP closes on 10th of October. That's this Sunday! Hurry up, before it is too late! FOSS.in is

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Off to LPC 2010, Boston

Later this week the Linux Plumbers Conference 2010 (http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/) will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge. Together with Mark Brown I'll be running the conference

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Linux Plumbers Conference/Gnome Summit Recap

Last week LPC (http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/) and GS (http://live.gnome.org/Boston2010) 2010 took place in Cambridge, MA. Like the last years, LPC showed again that -- at least for me -- it

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27C3 Fudfest

I really wonder why on earth the 27C3 accepted a nonsensical paper like this (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4017.en.html) into their programme. So .. stupid. You read half the

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systemd for Administrators, Part IV

Here's the fourth installment of my ongoing series (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html) about systemd (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-2.html) for

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FOSDEM Interview with Yours Truly

The FOSDEM organizers just published a brief interview with yours truly (http://fosdem.org/2011/interview/lennart-poettering) regarding the presentation about systemd

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LCA Talk on Video

I won't spare you the video of my talk about systemd (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd) at linux.conf.au 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/) in Brisbane, Australia last week: Hmm, seems