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

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, …

Throwing it all away.

Thanks to several intrepid Fedorans who lined up bugs for me for the Installation Guide, including Marvelous Mike McGrath and Jason Taylor! I fixed all of them on the plane as I flew to the Left Coast Monday evening. I had no time to devote to FOSS this weekend at …

Weekend reprobate.

This weekend I am in recording sessions, doing preproduction work with Laura, Arch, and Rich. Things are going very well so far — We tracked rhythm section work for four tunes, “Helicopter’s Rope,” “Roads,” “Keep Talking,” and “Our History.” Tomorrow will be spent putting down vocals, some guitars, and fitting …