Archive for May, 2008

Highway to Dell, part five

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

(Continued from Highway to Dell, part four.) My wife upgraded the Dell Inspiron 1525 to Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") the other day and as far as I know, everything works fine after correcting the No Sound After Distribution Upgrade issue. I still haven't upgraded my Thinkpad T60p from Ubuntu 7.10 and ...

ThoughtWorks opens Swedish office in June

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

I can't help keeping an eye on ThoughtWorks so here comes a followup on I read that ThoughtWorks is looking at Sweden: According to Ola Bini's ThoughtWorks comes to Sweden and Marcus Ahnve's Joining ThoughtWorks, Starting Office in Stockholm they will be the ones manning the ThoughtWorks Swedish office that opens ...

Trying Twitter

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

See twitter.com/davideriksson.

Really cool consultancy opportunity at Novell

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Miguel wrote: We are looking for consultants to work on a six to nine month project at Novell to write a prototype for a Visual Studio addin in C# or C++ that will connect Visual Studio and its debugging infrastructure to a remote Linux machine running Mono and the Mono Debugger. This ...

Amazon Web Services used for ssh login attempts

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I get ssh login attempts almost daily, mostly from DSL, asian or eastern european IP addresses but this one caught my eye: Illegal users from these: 75.101.221.220 (ec2-75-101-221-220.compute-1.amazonaws.com): 210 times admin/password: 16 times test/password: 15 ...