There are basically two major mailing lists in Fedora-land that primarily concern Board activities: the fedora-advisory-board (FAB) list and the fedora-board-list. The former is the place where the vast majority of discussion about high-level topics occurs. This list is open to everyone and is often used as a source of …
I got back from Raleigh last night, and promptly fell into bed exhausted. It was a low-sleep night Thursday thanks to a cocktail party thrown by the lovely Alex Maier. I enjoyed seeing all of you awesome Fedora and Red Hat folks who came to have a drink with the …
My daughter Evie, who will turn 7 in March, has a few favorite activities on her OLPC XO. Out of all of them, the one that tickles me most is that she loves wardriving. You heard me right. She will generally haul her XO anywhere she’s allowed, including in the …
Orientation at Red Hat started today. I had a great time meeting a bunch of new faces — in many cases, people I might not see again for a long while, if ever, since they are all going to different parts of the company. I was the one employee starting …
Normally I’m really good at meeting deadlines by a good margin. However, with all the excitement going on ’round these here parts with leaving the old job and getting the house ready for sale, time has been short recently. Nevertheless, I got my conference talk submitted this morning for OSCON …
Today marked the end of this stage of my career, as I left public service. Yesterday, friends threw me a going-away luncheon where I told them, among other things, this (the best recollection I have of what I said): It took a very special job offer from a very special …
The problem with my (otherwise totally rocking) Dell XPS M1330 I previously blogged about here, and earlier here, where the Dell MediaDirect application restored itself over the first several gigs of my hard disk, wiping out part of my LVM physical volume, is solved. To prevent the Dell MediaDirect from …
Christopher Negus has turned out yet another very useful book, Fedora Linux Toolbox, which concentrates on command line skills. I met Chris a couple FUDCons ago, in awe of his reputation as an authorial powerhouse. Turns out he’s also one heckuva guy and a real Friend of Fedora, even though …
Dell’s MediaDirect killed my hard disk today, in the sense that “killed” means “overwrote a big swath of space including part of the LVM PV.” AGAIN. I can definitely say at this point that it has something to do with booting a Live image off the optical drive. The last …
Aside to aspell: When one opens up talks with a second party, it’s a dialogue. That is, in fact, a correct spelling in US English, and the abomination dialog is reserved for computery people who don’t have time for niceties like spelling, and typing two extra letters.