On August 14, 2005 we had the annual Linux Picnic, Picn*x14, at the Sunnyvale Baylands Park.
Category: Open Source
Come see me speak at the BayLISA Meeting on April 21, 2005
I will be giving a presentation on Regular Expressions at BayLISA in Cupertino on April 21. Come out and see it! Here are the details: Whether running a simple grep command or writing a big Perl program, a thorough understanding of regular expressions is an essential skill for any system administrator. The talk will describe the history, syntax, and best practices for regular expressions; how a well-written regular expression can dramatically improve the speed of pattern matching; and give tips for using regular expressions in Perl programs.
Linux Holiday Dinner 2004
Last Wednesday night, December 15, 2004, was our first ever (hopefully annual) Linux Holiday Dinner which I organized. It was held by Silicon Valley Linux Users’ Group (where I was recently elected Vice President) and Peninsula Linux Users’ Group (of which I am the founder and President).
Linux Picnic 2004: Picn*x 13
On August 7, 2004 we had the annual Linux Picnic, Picn*x13, at the Sunnyvale Baylands Park. Here are my pictures from the event:
How Linux Changed the World
On August 25, 1991, the world changed. A college student in Finland by the name of Linus (LEE-noos) Torvalds announced his latest project, a new operating system for the 386 PC that uses the Minix filesystem and various GNU utilities. He named it Linux (LIN-ucks).