Linucon Starts Today in Austin

Posted on September 30, 2005

Linucon, the combination Linux and Science Fiction Expo, kicks off today at 3:00 PM in the Austin, TX Ambassador Hotel. Eric S. Raymond and John Quarterman will be speaking, and, if that’s not enough, we’ll be making batches ice cream using Liquid Nitrogen. See the schedule for a full list of talks, events, and times.

Weird Internet Explorer Bugs with the Linucon Website

Posted on September 28, 2005

I found the three bugs with the Linucon Wordpress site this morning. First, some JavaScript countdown code wasn’t really working correctly on IE (it worked fine on Firefox). So, I ported it to PHP. Then, some comment form textarea was borking my column width on all the commentable pages. For some reason, Internet Explorer thought it a good idea to expand the column width when textarea cols was set to 100%. I fixed that by enforcing a static cols value for the textarea. Then, the biggest problem of all was that Internet Explorer < = 5.0 was causing navigation problems on undefined JavaScript mouseover that inadvertently got copied into my wordpress theme..

Linucon 2004

Posted on October 11, 2004

I managed to go to Linucon this weekend with the mighty Bumper. There’s a gallery of pictures from the event here. In case you wondered, these folks are attempting to make ice cream with LN2 (Liquid Nitrogen).