Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>Humor</span>

Odds and ends, no. 55.

Mike Bonnet has a very useful script for downloading koji scratch builds here. The meetbot will congenially let you chair someone who’s not in a meeting — i.e. the wrong IRC nick. This can be embarrassing when that person takes over chair duties, and not only doesn’t know that action …

Revenge of balloon-head.

FUDCon news. Another sign that one shouldn’t spend a lot of time emailing large groups of people while on decongestants: //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00000.html //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00003.html //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00004.html Long and short is, though, that FUDCon F11 is in full swing, and coming up January 9-11 in Boston. All the important details are on the wiki, …

Back in play, No. 2.

Well, one migration just wasn’t enough for me this weekend apparently. My friend (and ace author/Asterisk guru extraordinaire) Jared gave me a new mobo that I could transplant into my desktop system, which had been running an old AthlonXP 1800+ on an Asus mobo. The new one is a Gigabyte …

This is what happens, Larry, when you don’t have a good Hallmark card stored up somewhere.

I wanted to take a moment to let everybody know about the splendiferousness of somebody very special. Why here? Because at least 71.9% of all the awesome stuff this person does makes it possible for me to do my job as FPL and be a software freedom advocate every day. …

The curse of four eyes.

Last week my daughter, who’s seven, went for a regular eye check up. As a result, yesterday we went to order her first pair of prescription eyeglasses. Two, actually — we assume she’ll lose one, since she doesn’t have to wear them for reading. The optometrist told my wife, “Oh, …