Bart and I had a conversation on IRC today where we wondered how we could get more training to new Fedora contributors. He brought up the idea of a Training SIG and then we discussed (and played around with) moodle, which is a complete Web-based courseware system. When combined with …
Whenever one is helping someone with a Linux problem, one cannot overstate the importance of checking the “easy” things first. What we think of as “easy” is very rarely so for the Linux beginner, and it’s also vital to never hold an oversight against him or her. We had a …
Note to would-be blog stylists out there: Do not hard code font sizes in pixels. Especially tiny ones. Case in point: Witness the discrepancy between the normal font size (in the dialog’s list box at top) and the blog post text at the bottom (12px according to the CSS, yikes!). …
Sorry I don’t have time to look up links. Google is your friend; use it. ? Fedora. Got a release notes package put together, only to find out that I broke something stupid that I had originally done right and then subsequently “fixed,” in the way that you might fix …
I’ve put a draft of the Fedora 8 Installation Guide up at my FedoraPeople pages. Please do not link to it, since it is a draft and might evaporate at any time. There is an easy link for bug-filing on my page as well. And yes, the library came in …
If you want to see the hopped-up, adrenalin-junkie, exploitation-cinema version of a whiny UF journalism student, check out Kurt Russell crying like a little girl at the end of Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino’s contribution to this year’s Grindhouse. Even with 20 or so minutes restored to a film that originally …
The Release Notes beats have a great many holes — too many for comfort at this point, as we need to ship them to the L10N project for translation work pronto. A too-high number of our beat writers appear to have disappeared from view, and that leaves the rest of …
Question for LiveJournal users, especially those on Planet Fedora — why can’t I use my OpenID to write a comment on your blogs?
Till Maas, not only for some useful Makefile hacking (demonstrating the “Just Do It” FOSS principle), but also for his help filing some Docs Project bugs that badly need stomping. Good work Till!
Evie’s first school newsletter came home this week, and printed in it was a twisted, cloying wreck of verse that reminded me: Most of you who write poetry, shouldn’t.