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.
The Fedora Documentation Project uses “beats” — small, manageable subject matter areas — to organize and separate the Release Notes for each release of Fedora. We keep these beats on the wiki, and the entire community is able to contribute to them. We edit them for accuracy and readability, and …
Today I am over at my sister’s trying in vain to use Microsoft’s “Easy File Transfer” (*snort*) to move her files from an older XP system to her newer Vista. (I tried to talk them into trying Linux but the kids have games, husband a proprietary app, yadda yadda.) This …
Today I managed to get some substantial work done around my “Daddy Day Care” duty: Published some new versions of the Translation Quick Start Guide for the L10n folks Edited a new README for Fedora Live images Imported said README into Docs CVS and set it up for our build …
Even hardcore Windows developers agree: GConf beats the Windows registry, hands-down.
My better half has flown the coop, as it were, for Tennessee through Friday night, so I am home taking care of the kids. I’ve already familiarized myself with the contents of our knife block and the location of incendiary materials, so I should be able to tell if any …