Our elections coordinator Nigel Jones has set up the balloting for the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCo. On every ballot are fantastic individuals who are willing to give extra time and energy to Fedora to try to improve the project for their fellow contributors. Good luck to everyone on the …
The drink of astronauts, not the “Alias” bad guy.
I just realized that I’d made a mistake on the FUDCon page in our location at MIT. Our classrooms are not going to be located in the Sloan Building, but rather in the Tang Center, building E51. Sorry for the mix-up — and the FUDCon wiki page has been fixed …
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: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00000.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00003.html https://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, …
Nominations still open.
In a little under a week, the combined Fedora elections will be held for the Board and other groups as well such as FESCo. Nominations are open through Wednesday, 3 December. You can visit the main elections page, which links to the group specific pages where you can nominate yourself …
PCI modem recommendation?
Dear Lazyweb, I need a PCI fax/modem for my office Frankenbox. This one at Newegg has at least one review that says it works but if you can confirm or recommend another — preferably something supported by an in-kernel driver — I’d appreciate it.
And about that turkey…
Since I’m in the mood for tip-giving… I hope everyone in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving however you chose to celebrate it. We had my mom and stepdad over for a nice family dinner with all the requisites, including a lot of home-made goodies from my wonderful wife (fresh …
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 …
Back in play.
The Red Hat corporate help desk kindly sent me a new laptop for temporary use until I get the replacement for my XPS M1330 from Dell. The loaner was a 32-bit machine, and my old drive was 64-bit, so rather than bother with a hard disk transplant, which would mean …
Followed by a lot of wind sprints.
Just a heads up: I will probably be out of pocket most of the next few days. For those of you who didn’t know, Thursday is a US holiday, and Friday is a paid holiday at Red Hat where I work. Combine that with a weekend, family, good food, and …
How about that desktop?
I figured while I’m in a super-bloggy mood today I’d add this tidbit. Someone asked me a question about what might be missing from distributions like Fedora that would help it reach more users. This question isn’t new and I’ve given the subject a lot of thought over the last …