Shnap.Part of the time I’ve been goofing around, but the system is back up and working nominally at this point, so I’m calling it done. There’s always little things to deal with as they come up, but that shouldn’t be a problem. Eleya’s PDA is even syncing again properly! I am starting to play with Avahi a little now that I have another FC5 host. It’s wicked cool, and lets you share files between computers using the Apple Zeroconf protocol. No muss, no fuss, just turn on file sharing and drop things into your Public folder. It even allows media sharing if you’re into that kind of thing. Sweet! |
So far so good.Well, the weblog is back up, so obviously things are going OK so far. MySQL 5.0 has had no hitches; I ran the recommended update commands as shown in the MySQL documentation, and all the messages looked nominal. I’m restoring user home directories right now. |
Surgery commences.Today I am upgrading our workstation downstairs to Fedora Core 5, and things are going swimmingly so far. I am (finally) migrating that system to use LVM, since I foresee buying some new storage for it sooner or later. Of course I took backups of everything first, but it’s always scary when you see the “Formatting /home…” message. More progress reports later; I suppose I’ll be dumping all these blog entries asynchronously since the workstation carries the MySQL server that provides them. |
Quick pick.I just got a hold of a link to a cool blog full of OpenOffice.org tips. Since I use Linux for all my everyday computing needs, this site might really come in handy! Coming soon to a blogroll near… uh, me. |
Eye of the beholder.Hey Bastien, I bought one of these for my wife, so it wouldn’t be fair to guess here, I suppose. But you’ll be happy you have one, once you get hot oil involved. snicker |
The power of cute compels you.Tonight we’re having a birthday party for Evie, and we finally got smart and set it up at a restaurant instead of having the house overrun with munchkins. Here’s a picture of the beautiful birthday girl! I can’t believe she’s going to be five already. It’s just unthinkable.
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You gotta fight.Eleya and I bundled the kids up early this evening to head out to a St. Patrick’s Day party hosted by some friends in town, and we all had a super-fantastic time. There was a babysitter on the premises (in the basement) to watch over the little ones while the adults gathered upstairs. It wasn’t like there was much of a barrier for the all-ages crowd, since there were many games of tag and showing off of various “found” treasures migrating upstairs at any given moment. But everyone enjoyed it, nonetheless, and all the kids, including ours, were on the whole as well-behaved as one could hope. It’s rare these days that we get out among that many adults at one time on a Saturday night. Less rare for me, assuming I’m gigging regularly, but that hasn’t been the case of late. We had a wonderful time catching up with my friend Chris and his new wife. That sounds weird, as if she were a car or something. But any chance to sit down with them and just talk about how life is going is a real treat. Note to self: Must make more time for trips to Richmond area to see them during 2006, especially after they come up for air, when their new baby arrives in summer! |
Release Notes II: rereleased!Addendum to my earlier post: Also coming in the FC5 final Release Notes is the “ru” locale translation, courtesy of Andrew Martynov, who burst through the finish line in time for the respin. We also have another contender for the “coming soon” Web-based release notes, the “pa” locale, courtesy of Amanpreet Singh Brar. Thanks again to these community members, Fedora will be able to reach even more people around the world. |
Have no instrument, will travel anyway.A road trip without a gig schedule or an axe? Unthinkable! Well, not really… I’ll be coming to FUDCon Boston 2006, with no time for playing around. I should arrive on Wednesday with enough time to get to LinuxWorld, and in particular Jack’s Fedora 5 BoF session that evening. Thursday I’ll be hitting a conference presentation or two, as well as some of the vendor booths… including, hopefully, the Fedora booth. I’m not sure who’s going to be there, or at the Red Hat area, but I would love to get a chance to shake hands with whoever’s going to be there. I’m under the impression a few community luminaries will be around, so hopefully I won’t make too much of an ass out of myself. Reminder to me: Cut down on beer consumption at FUDPub for best results as far as that goes. |
Livin’ on the edge.I’ve installed Rawhide, the bleeding-edge software that becomes Fedora Core every six to nine months, on my ThinkPad, which is my main workhorse computer. So far so good; it looks and works great. Fedora Core 5 will be released next week, and it looks to be one of our best yet. I proudly made a few personal contributions to the platform as part of my work with the Fedora Project, including:
The next few months are going to be very interesting indeed! |
