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Month: August, 2008

czech republic, here i come

Hm, I thought I’d finished making my fall travel plans. Guess not…
SUSE Labs 2008 conference, presenting a version of my PCI slots talk

Thu, Sep 4, 2008 DENVER, CO (DEN) – MUNICH, GFR (MUC)
Fri, Sep 5, 2008 MUNICH, GFR (MUC) – PRAGUE, CZECH (PRG)

The return flight home on Sept. [...]

want

Ordinary Decent Criminal move
Zero X

china racism

China’s international profile is somewhere in the upper stratosphere these days, what with the Olympics (acute) and the changing face of the global economy (chronic). The increased exposure is a double-edged sword, of course. Greater outside awareness can bring unwanted scrutiny in addition to the hoped-for enhanced respect.
And that’s all fine and good; nothing is [...]

sneaky pci_dev refcounts

Normal friends and family, just skip this post. Trust me.
Recently, while doing some PCI slot symlink work, I noticed that we weren’t calling pci_release_dev() after taking a card offline (via sysfs). Well, at least not the first time, due to a leaked refcount in pci_get_dev_by_id(). gregkh fixed it, so that’s good, but I had a [...]

fall travel plans

what goes in Reno…

Thu, Sep 11, 2008 Denver, CO (DEN) – Reno, NV (RNO)

Kernel Summit/Linux Plumber’s Conf

Sun, Sep 14, 2008 Reno, NV (RNO) – Portland, OR (PDX)

Falconer + G-unit’s wedding

Thu, Sep 25, 2008 Denver, CO (DEN) – Chicago, IL (ORD)

Becca in Madison

Thu, Oct 30, 2008 [...]

mmm…crema

Speed Racer psp
crema art, Seattle, WA

Broken Bridges
What Doesn’t Kill You movie download
I miss Seattle. *sniff*

i'm a plumber!

My talk for the 1st ever Linux Plumber’s Conf was accepted: Physical PCI slots: A little bit goes a long way.
Looking at the rest of the speakers schedule, I’m pretty excited by the lineup. These should be some great talks. The only bummer is that some of the talks I’m interested in overlap, but I’m [...]

i threw my fire to win this

the boss, up close

And it was totally worth it.

the place of honor
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