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

FUDCon lodging.

Having the North American FUDCon for F10 colocated with the Red Hat Summit in Boston has a number of great benefits that go along with it — lots of enterprise, SMB, and individuals gathered in one place for open source content; plenty of space for workgroups to form around discussing …

Be true to your code.

As my good friend Karsten pointed out, the deadline to sign up as a Google Summer of Code mentor is fast approaching — 31 March to be exact. Ideas are super, but ideas need people power behind them to help guide and monitor the summer coders in their efforts. Please …

Capsules.

Rendition: Even great actors like Meryl Streep can’t save a hack, one-sided script with no room for the audience to mull over the moral and political questions it should have asked. Wishes it was In the Valley of Elah; waste of time. Margot at the Wedding: Superb character study piece, …

I’ll say it’s true.

I’ve got a new favorite… Archive Mounter. I had a collection of .iso files (CD and DVD images) on my Desktop for various purposes, and today I discovered a new feature in the Fedora 9 Beta, courtesy of GVFS. Right-click the file, choose Archive Mounter, and voila! The CD is …

Wenn man sich in Rom.

I am really looking forward to my trip to Berlin in May for LinuxTag 2008. I’ll get to meet a lot of the Fedora Ambassadors from Europe who make up such a thriving part of our community, to see Europe’s biggest .com-meets-.org Linux trade show, and (hopefully) to realize how …

Save some Summit dough.

For folks attending FUDCon Boston 2008 at the Red Hat Summit, I wanted to extend a tip: If you or your employer is springing for attendance at the actual Summit itself, and you attended a previous Summit, you’re eligible for a special alumni rate. Check your email from the last …