One of the gifts I gave Eleya for Christmas was a DVD of the superb ultra-low budget indie film Primer, a film we saw a couple years ago which made a very strong impact. Made by Texan engineer-turned-auteur Shane Carruth, who also starred, edited, scored, and so on, it’s a …
Courtesy of the inimitable Karsten Wade, and in response to Allen’s post, I’d like to add It’s All Text! to the list of good Firefox extensions. Karsten and I use this to call Emacs for doing editing of wiki pages — so important when you have a twitchy touchpad.
I knew that when we ordered a G1G1 XO laptop for my daughter, it would either hit it big, or go down in smoke and flames. As I’m sure the OLPC folks could have guessed, it’s an ENORMOUS smash. Evie hasn’t spent more than a few minutes away from it …
What’s with the aristocratic bent of recent titles here? There may be something subconscious going on there that will make sense to me later, but I’m afraid to look too deeply into it right now. This post is about a film that changed my life when I saw it. I …
Matthew Szulik steps down as CEO of Red Hat. I’ve met Mr. Szulik a few times, but he really doesn’t know me from Adam. However, I will never forget the opening remarks he made at the 2006 Red Hat Summit in Nashville, Tennessee. He talked about his kids — his …
On Tuesday night before going to bed, I started to thaw my Dell XPS M1330 laptop from hibernation, and hard powered it off to abort. Perhaps an ill-advised move, I agree. (The beatings have finally ceased.) The Dell BIOS (I assume) “helpfully” took this opportunity to survey my disk and …
Max posted to fedora-devel-announce that we might swap days on the FUDCon schedule, splitting the hackfest days — Friday and Sunday — with the BarCamp day on Saturday. This potentially could turn out to be a great routine arrangement for FUDCon. since now the Saturday sessions can benefit from being …
The FDSCo elections are now open! Voting continues for the three open seats until — if memory serves — 23:59 UTC, December 24th. Our nominees are a great group, so no matter the results, the holidays will be a cheerful time for the Docs project. The FAmSCo elections should commence …
To second what Jayson Rowe said, CentOS really does fill a gap. As a person who works on Fedora almost exclusively in his spare time, CentOS is the perfect way for me to experience performance equivalent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux — albeit without the support options — and take …
According to our schedule, the Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (FDSCo) nominations are open. We have three seats up for election this cycle. Vigorous work is underway for more documentation for Fedora 8/9, and we want to see strong community leadership driving the development of these docs. A recent influx of …