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getting the blog back together
Sheesh… it’s been not quite 2 years since I last posted here. I’ve migrated my old wordpress blog over to this new shiny wordpress-mu one. I expect you will see pictures of dogs and other around the...
View ArticleFedora IRC Classes coming up next week
Just thought I would shout out that we have at least 3 Fedora IRC Classroom Classes coming up next week: Date and Time (UTC) Class topic and Instructor 2010-01-06 — 1500 UTC Packaging Sugar...
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Nash in the snow
I recently got a Motorola Droid phone. I am loving it so far. Here’s a pic from the phone camera on today’s dog walk of Nash, posted from the phone. Hopefully this will make it easy to take and share...
View ArticleFedora Source checking
I’ve just finished another run of my sourcecheck script against all the Fedora devel packages. What is that you might ask? It’s a pretty basic shell script that does: Operates over a full Fedora CVS...
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There is no spoon
spoonfeeding: noun 1. feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon 2. teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought I’ve been accused of this in the #fedora channel, so I...
View Articleebook review: First Light Chronicles: Omnibus by Randolph Lalonde
As I mentioned I have taken to reading ebooks (usually in epub format) recently on my phone. The most recent one is First Light Chronicles: Omnibus. This is a hard sci-fi space book, that’s really 3...
View ArticleFedora Source checking (REDUX)
Sadly the source check script I ran last week was going against old data and thus not very helpful. ;( What happened was that I had a devel.tgz checkout in my sourcecheck directory, and did a wget to...
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Xfce SIG happenings
As Christoph mentioned we are trying to open things up more and get more people involved in the Xfce SIG. Toward that end we have created a new mailing list: here as well as trying to figure out a good...
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fedora-release-rawhide coming to a rawhide near you soon
It looks like I might have been able to convince enough of the right people and soon the rawhide repository file ( /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo ) will be moving to a subpackage of the...
View Article#fedora and spammers
Just a note to folks out there who help out in, or are helped out by the freenode #fedora channel: Due to a flood of unregistered spambots on the freenode network, we have had to make the #fedora...
View ArticleFedora’s social IRC room
Just thought I would point out for folks who haven’t heard of it that we have a social IRC channel available on freenode.net: #fedora-social. This channel can get rawkus at times, but can be a nice way...
View Articleyour fedora muse?
There has been lots of discussion on various lists recently about a overall “vision” or “goal” for Fedora. Sometimes that debate has been heated and not all that positive, so I thought I would ask a...
View Articlefun with irc clients
So, after having a pretty productive Fedora day yesterday (I cleaned up EPEL buildroot override tags/closed tickets, caught up on all my mailing lists and such, started in on some package reviews,...
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Wiki editing and cleanup fun
I finally got around today to editing the introduction to virtulization page on the Fedora wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_virtualization I had been pointing users to this for...
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some updates-testing anecdotes
Some folks have noted recently that none of their Fedora updates have ever gotten any karma (either positive or negative) in the updates system. The default settings have a requirement of +3 karma to...
View ArticleFedora nightly live composes
Just thought I would note a few things about the Fedora nightly live composes I have been doing for a while: They aren’t really ‘nightly’. I guess they should be ‘daily’. I start them composing as soon...
View ArticleNice talk
I know some folks pointed this out a while back, but I only now just got around to watching it. It’s 55min, but well worth it. See if you don’t recognize some types of people they mention from your...
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