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

Back at work today after feeling a little better yesterday. I made it to band rehearsal and we had a pretty good run-through for Saturday’s show at the Frederick Festival. Leah and I are also playing Sunday morning at the Herndon Festival. Look for us on the “Cafe Stage.” I …

Likely, no. Possible? Well… maybe… We can always hope, right? I’ve been sick as a dog since Saturday. Just thinking about this, though, made my head feel a little less congested and my limbs ache a little less.

Fascinating development with Leah — she has met up with Okorie Johnson, a cellist formerly with (among others, I guess) Jennifer Daniels, and played with him last Saturday. They along with J. Tom, our guitarist opened up for The Brindley Brothers at their club Jammin’ Java in Vienna. Hopefully I’ll …

I’ve made up a few RPM packages that will help you get your Red Hat Linux 9 box subscribed to the updates already (or soon to be) available at FedoraLegacy.org. The rhnlib and rhn-applet packages are simply stock recompilations of the most updated ones available on Fedora Core 1. The …

Having spent a good portion of yesterday hacking on my central home server (which provides print queueing for everyone else at home), I can now say that if you want a modern printer, you can’t go wrong with an HP printer. I threw away several hours trying to get an …

Returned last night from Red Hat HQ in Raleigh, NC, after taking the RH300 to update my certification status. This morning I received my score in the mail, 100% on all categories! In all honesty, if I hadn’t done that well I would have been embarrassed, since (1) it was …

If you do any kind of post-mortems on volumes with lost data, or hacked systems, you might want to check out Sleuthkit. If you use Fedora Core (as I do), you might want to check out my SRPMS (source RPMs) for both sleuthkit and autopsy. (Due to the fact that …

If you like cats, you should definitely not watch this. And you might not want to buy a Ford anytime soon, either… not that, given the overall quality of their cars, you were probably hurrying out to do just that anyway. Note to the clueless: The Ford Ka is a …

For Mothers Day I got Eleya a Cingular GSM cell phone. We have started referring to it as the Zoolander phone because it seems impossibly tiny. The actual model is a Samsung s307, and it has all the latest geegaws such as cool ringtones and background wallpapers, Web browsing, SMS …