Binary Badass

The other day, I was thinking to myself about how nice it would be if I could install a couple of packages onto my WRT54G router running Tomato so that I could have my IM client be perpetually active. Then I thought that it is just a router and that I shouldn’t be concerning myself with running stuff like that on it. I also thought to myself how interesting low-power computing really is. All I really wanted the box to be able to do was to keep a persistent screen session running and to have a few small applications running on it. I have several older computers lieing around that I wouldn’t exactly call “low power” and being that I am a little bit sensitive as to what my electrical bill is and try to trim it wherever possible, I was contemplating the purchase of an Asus EEE PC desktop to use for that. Then I remembered that I had something similar albeit slightly antiquated; a PowerPC-based Mac Mini.
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Like most people in the open source community, I want to try to give back something to the community; be it in the form of a code refactoring that greatly simplifies or modularizes something to just learning more about how things work. In my quest to learn more about programming and computer science in general, I’ve been intrigued with the use of the goto construct in the Linux kernel and open source software in general.
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Every year, my friends and I pack up and head to Columbus, Ohio for the annual Ohio Linuxfest Linux and Open Source Convention. This year was no exception. Note: This article has a very broad overview of the entire event. Details will be posted in future articles on here. Without further ado, onward readers! (continue reading…)