In case there was still a doubt.
Yes, Fredericksburg, Virginia, has more than its share of nerds. Go FredLUG!
Notes from a Monday.
Personal tidbits from today… Mom is back in the hospital again. She’s suddenly got a lot of pain again and can’t bear to walk or be upright. The orthopedic surgeon is not sure what the problem is, but thinks it might be a nerve pinched in the new hardware in …
Plugging away.
Reminder: The FUDCon wiki page is ready for sign-ups. We have hotel information ready for you as well, including a link to the hotel web site where you can use a special code for our discount rate. If you need an extra day on either side (or both), the hotel …
Fedora Classroom this weekend.
If you haven’t stopped by yet, you should look at IRC Freenode’s #fedora-classroom. There’s a schedule of sessions on the wiki for today and tomorrow. I’m doing a session in just a few minutes on getting involved. Right now the indomitable (and fast-healing) Jon Stanley is giving a session on …
Rappin’ ’bout mappin’.
Apparently I’m a little apostrophe-happy — it must be the giddiness of having Richard Weait from OpenStreetMap here at our little FredLUG meeting tonight! Richard just started his presentation, so I’m going to post this really quick-like — just because I’m so excited about our first guest speaker ever. Woohoo!
Release notes status.
The Docs team is continuing to work on getting the latest content into the Fedora Release Notes for our final release in a few weeks. Now that we have done our big XML conversion, requests for changes in the release notes need to be filed in Bugzilla. Why? Because it …
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. …
Opening terminal from desktop.
Clint, the nautilus-open-terminal package may be (sadly?) one of my proudest achievements in doing something technical in Fedora. I’ve maintained that package since Fedora Core 5, when GNOME removed the terminal opening function from the default Desktop quick menu. I actually agreed with the change — if the average user …
The sound of one large gal warbling.
Everyone in the USA, regardless of personal political persuasion, should acknowledge this is a historic day. Sen. McCain just made an incredibly gracious, dignified, and honestly moving concession speech acknowledging the moment and importance of the election of our first President of color. Now I’m waiting for the victory speech …
Grab bag of goodies.
Preview Release. First, the goodiest of the goodies: Fedora 10 Preview Release is out today. Grab a torrent and start seeding the love! (Don’t forget to add vga=0x317 or the like to your GRUB to see the hot new Plymouth feature at work.) Update: Jeremy tells me that this is …