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

Had a great gig with Leah on Saturday at Andy’s in Chestertown, MD. Our audience was fantastic and this is a wonderful venue for quality original music from around the region. I’m still a little exhausted since I started on a sleep deficit Saturday morning and never really caught up …

Woo-hoo! Tonight I set up a Subversion server. It is available for read-only access at svn://svn.frields.org. Eventually I will be migrating this to using Apache and mod_dav_svn, but that will come later. Too much recompiling and installing to do on my trusty RHL 9 server for this late at night. …

On a whim I bought Anthony Minghella’s film of Charles Frazier’s Civil War romantic epic Cold Mountain. After the first viewing I have to admit I was a bit nonplussed. As I thought back over the film, though, I realized my disappointment was due in large part to its steadfast …

It’s interesting to me that for you folks using Microsoft Windows, being able to “talk” to your office computer from home or on the road is a big deal. You buy all sorts of geegaws like “GoToMyPC” or “PCanywhere,” which gives you the ability to use your applications and documents …

I don’t care how much of a jerk Warren Lieberfarb may be. I’d still like to shake his hand. Because of him, I have a large library of my favorite films in an easily-totable format, which can accompany me on business trips (by plain, train or automobile) or play on …

I’ve decided to pursue the new Red Hat Certified Architect course track. I’m going to my first class at the end of July, and hopefully I’ll be able to complete the courses by next spring. Between work, family, and the band, I can’t go away too often, so I have …

I had a really great Fathers Day yesterday. My wife (and purportedly the kids) got me a new DVD (The Right Stuff), a little book about things a father should teach his son, and a new wallet. We also had a great cookout on Saturday, when some friends came down …

Life imitating art imitating art? A new movie arrives with the incendiary and buzzworthy title The Hunting of the President that is purporting to give us “the real story” behind a supposed widespread right-wing conspiracy to pull off a coup d’etat to unseat former President Bill Clinton. Of course, with …