Today was the first day of LugRadio Live USA 2008. I flew up to San Francisco with my friend Al. We have had a good time, but are exausted. We stayed up pretty late last night.

I heard some really good talks today. Some that stuck out were Startup Storage by Val Henson, Linux Laptops by Matt Garrett, and MySQL by Stewart Smith. I am looking forward to my talk tomorrow. The audiences have been really interactive. That seems to increase the overall energy of the talks.

I stole this from a different site [ blog.gobanquet.com ]. The site is down, but thanks to google cache I could access it. I am posting it here so that others can find it once it is no longer available via google.

Need to access your Mac from your Linux desktop? While Apple Remote Desktop software might be compatible with VNC, anyone who’s tried to use a regular VNC client will know it doesn’t work. Here’s how to fix it.

First, the Mac:

• Open Finder and click System Preferences
• Under Internet & Network, open Sharing
• Enable Apple Remote Desktop. Then Access Privileges
• Enable VNC viewers may Control the screen with password, and then pop in a password.

Then on Ubuntu:

• Click System → Administration → Synaptic Package Manager
• Install the tsclient and xtightvncviewer packages
• Uninstall the xvnc4viewer package (for Ubuntu 7.10) or the xvncviewer package (Ubuntu 7.06).This is the important part – Apple Remote Desktop isn’t compatible with regular VNC. Uninstalling it makes Ubuntu prefer the alternative Tight VNC version (which uses a compression that works with Apple Remote Desktop).
• Click Applications → Internet → Terminal Server Client
• Under Computer type the IP address of the Mac, select VNC as the protocol and click Connect.
• If all goes well, a window will pop up in the top left of your screen asking for a password, and you’ll be connected to your Mac.

Registration for LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now open at
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register, and tickets for the two-day
spectacular cost only $10 for the full weekend, including full access
to all talks, the exhibition, evening events, and a free bag o'swag
for visitors. Pre-registrations also enjoy additional benefits at the
show and the first 50 registrations will receive a free copy of Postal
2: Share The Pain (subject to age verification), thanks to Running
With Scissors. All pre-registrations will also be entered into a
raffle to win prizes by a variety of vendors.

LugRadio Live USA 2008, the 'rock-conference' from the team behind the
popular LugRadio podcast (http://www.lugradio.org), brings the
successful and unique formula of the UK LugRadio Live events to The
Metreon in San Francisco on the 12th and 13th April 2008. The event is
supported extensively by Google and also supported by Dice.

LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings together over 30 speakers across three
stages, 30+ exhibitors, a range of BOF sessions, debate panels,
lightbulb talk sessions, demos and much more, all wrapped up in the
unique event that the UK incarnation has become known for, combining
an incredibly loose, social, inclusive, and amusing atmosphere - if
you are new to LugRadio Live, it is nothing you will have seen before.

Confirmed speakers for the event include:

 * Miguel de Icaza (Mono / Novell / Co-Founder Of GNOME)
 * Ian Murdoch (OpenSolaris / Founder Of Debian)
 * Robert Love (GNOME / Google)
 * Aza Raskin (Mozilla / Humanized)
 * Benjamin Mako Hill (Ubuntu / Debian / FSF)
 * John Buckman (Magnatune)
 * Val Henson (Kernel / VAH consulting)
 * Christopher Blizzard (Mozilla / GNOME)
 * Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
 * David Schleef (GStreamer)
 * Matthew Garrett (Power Management / Kernel)
 * Danese Cooper (Intel / OSI)
 * Aaron Bockover (Banshee / Novell)
 * Liana Holmberg (Second Life / Linden Lab)
 * Emma Jane Hogbin (Hick Tech)
 * Joe Zonker Brockmeier (OpenSuSE / Novell)
 * Kristen Accardi (Kernel)
 * David Lefty Schlesinger
 * Joe Born (Neuros)
 * Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL)
 * Stewart Smith (MySQL)
 * Dan Kegal (Wine)
 * Ben Collins (Ubuntu / Kernel)
 * Jason Kridner (Texas Instruments)
 * Jeremy Allison (Samba / Google)
 * Christian Hammond (VMWare)
 * Ian McKeller (Songbird)
 * Alison Randall (Parrot / Perl / OSCON)
 * David Huffman (LVM)
 * Brian Will (Pigeon)
 * Belinda Lopez (Ubuntu)
 * Ilan Rabanovich (SoCal Linux Expo)
 * Eddy Mulyono (Packaging)
 * Matthew Walster (Demo Scene)

The show will also see a large number of exhibitors, which will be
announced in the coming weeks, with plenty to see and do. In addition
to this, the LugRadio team will be recording a live performance of
their cult-hit podcast, which has over 20,000 listeners, in front of
the LugRadio Live USA 2008 audience - like the UK event, this is
always quite a spectacle, and excellent fun for all involved.

More information about LugRadio Live USA 2008 can be found at
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/

Here are my notes regarding compiling openssl on solaris. This stems from needing SSL support for lighttpd. OpenSSL will compile "out of the box" but the AES encryption is buggy. This causes the firefox web browser to post an error because it uses AES for SSL authentication. So I tracked the problem back to my compile of OpenSSL. There is a bug in the Solaris cc compiler that causes problems with AES encryption. You must alter the Makefile once you have run config.