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

Presentation yen.

How to make a bad presentation, from the front lines of the RHGUD conference: Fill your slide deck with words. The more, the better. The smaller, the better. Avoid negative space. Use color schemes that make your words hard to read, or better yet, invisible in some places. Giving your …

Commonalities.

Both Tim Waugh and I are apparently big Justin Currie fans. My copy of his new solo album just showed up and HOLY HELL is it good. I was glad to see a bunch of the Dels play bit parts here and there, and Justin dedicates the record to longtime …

Honest assessment.

I wanted to jot myself some notes about last night’s gig, and a good way to stay honest about it is to do it here. Song by song breakdown: Helicopter’s Rope – I think I missed one note when Arch was coming out of his solo, but caught up fine …

Laptop mode, check.

I’m using my hawt new Dell XPS M1330 and have been a direct beneficiary of the equally hawt F8. The iwl3945 module which cost me about 60%+ in performance at F7 release time is now providing peak performance in Rawhide (pre-F8). Media keys all work great, including volume, track control, …