I’m in ur interwebz postin ur docs.In a whirlwind of activity tonight, I:
The sad part is most of this is a fairly tedious manual process, so this took the better part of the evening. I long for the day when our CMS will make this process look clunky and ridiculous. Or rather, more so. |
Happiness is…Celebrating another birthday for the one you love, including:
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If only it worked for Monroe.As a late entrant into the PC world, my first “real” system at home was a Dell Pentium Pro 200MHz, at the time a top of the line monster that set me back about $3K. It was a great system, though, and I had my first dual-boot system on it, which I believe was Red Hat Linux 4.2. Eventually I upgraded that system to a whopping 96 MB of RAM for some real powerhouse performance. (Lock your knees if it helps keep you upright.) When I replaced it with a homebrew Athlon system in 2001, it became my home server, “Marilyn” on the new network. I used that PPro up until last summer, when a disk crash gave me the opportunity to migrate “Marilyn” to a used Pentium-II 266 MHz, a gift from a friend. The original hardware is still back in my HVAC closet and works fine, although it’s not running now. I also took the opportunity to put in a software RAID configuration for a little peace of mind. Today I realized I had an Athlon T-bird 1100 system — this one given to me by my father, who had received a brand-spanking-new system as a gift — sitting around gathering dust. Mostly it was unused because the hard disk was going bad. Today I transplanted “Marilyn’s” disks, now running Fedora Core 5, into that system, and voila! Instant upgrade. I’ll probably be moving it to CentOS 5 shortly. Another reminder of the benefits of Linux — making good use of hardware that otherwise would be sitting in a landfill somewhere. I received some much newer hardware from a friend recently, and will probably deed my homebrew Athlon 1.4GHz to a worthy cause, like my perpetually strapped sister in law. |
We’re golden.From the IRC buffer of #fedora-devel, looks like Fedora 7 will be in General Availability on 31 May. To all those who repeatedly tested and fed back bugs and information, a hearty and heartfelt thank you. I’m sure the actual release engineering folks will have more to say about this shortly; stay tuned. |
So much for free time.I’ve put a release candidate for the F7 Installation Guide on my wiki page, along with instructions on how to read it and how to file bugs for problems. Patches to the DocBook XML happily accepted, of course. You don’t need to check out any CVS or do anything other than pull the tarball and read it using yelp, which is installed on the vast majority of Fedora systems. I’d love it if the Anaconda team took a look at this, although I’m sure they’re very busy stomping last minute bugs. Have at it! |
Embrace and extend.Got Mac hack skillz? Please, for goodness’ sake, help put together an OS X Mugshot client so we can grab some mindshare from the most visibly social part of the computing community! |
More on being a heel.A while ago, I wrote a bit about tracking down a sham “charity” that was soliciting donations for support-worthy causes like disabled firefighters and homeless veterans. I was contacted a few months back by a reporter about my dealings with this charity, but somehow with the vagaries of time differences, email, and schedule conflicts, we never connected up. You can read his article here if you’re interested. It’s short and has some guidelines for checking that your charitable giving is having a maximum impact. |
Right, NOW you can drool.The most coveted piece of hardware seen at the Red Hat Summit:
These showed up at the semi-exclusive, Office Space-themed RHCT/RHCE cocktail reception on Wednesday night before the IBM beach party. The table centerpieces also included ancient-vintage HP LaserJet printers complete with baseball bats. (I was a little disappointed we weren’t encouraged to beat them up to the strains of gansta rap.) All the red Swinglines disappeared promptly at the conclusion of the festivities, go figure! |
I’ll take two, with a side of pumpkin seeds.Seems like Rebound, the debut solo album by Justin Currie — who formerly fronted the criminally and terminally underappreciated Del Amitri — may see daylight around October 9. “Until then, I’d been living on my knees.” (And countless spins of the old records.) |
It’s a two-fisted love story.Shadowman has some great things to say about Dell and Ubuntu. Read it and map this to the buzz about the online desktop. |
