Good parts about taking the day off: Seeing family in the morning Leisurely breakfast Shorts The not so good: $1900 car repair bill (“But other than that, it’s in great shape!”) Trying to get software for new F7 box through clogged Internet tubes
In a whirlwind of activity tonight, I: Updated the release notes with the latest diffs from the wiki, by converting them to DocBook XML Published all the release notes from the ISO spins Published the US English release notes for the Web update (other translations and a package update to …
Celebrating another birthday for the one you love, including: Giving a well-chosen gift or two (or more). Fresh, locally-grown mango, cantaloupe, and strawberries in a lovely birthday fruit salad. Chinese take-out by request. Guinness chocolate cake, courtesy of Nigella Lawson. Hearing the kids sing “Happy Birthday,” quavering and off-key, even …
As a late entrant into the PC world, my first “real” system at home was a Dell Pentium Pro 200MHz, at the time a top of the line monster that set me back about $3K. It was a great system, though, and I had my first dual-boot system on it, …
From the IRC buffer of #fedora-devel, looks like Fedora 7 will be in General Availability on 31 May. To all those who repeatedly tested and fed back bugs and information, a hearty and heartfelt thank you. I’m sure the actual release engineering folks will have more to say about this …
I’ve put a release candidate for the F7 Installation Guide on my wiki page, along with instructions on how to read it and how to file bugs for problems. Patches to the DocBook XML happily accepted, of course. You don’t need to check out any CVS or do anything other …
Got Mac hack skillz? Please, for goodness’ sake, help put together an OS X Mugshot client so we can grab some mindshare from the most visibly social part of the computing community!
A while ago, I wrote a bit about tracking down a sham “charity” that was soliciting donations for support-worthy causes like disabled firefighters and homeless veterans. I was contacted a few months back by a reporter about my dealings with this charity, but somehow with the vagaries of time differences, …
The most coveted piece of hardware seen at the Red Hat Summit: These showed up at the semi-exclusive, Office Space-themed RHCT/RHCE cocktail reception on Wednesday night before the IBM beach party. The table centerpieces also included ancient-vintage HP LaserJet printers complete with baseball bats. (I was a little disappointed we …
Seems like Rebound, the debut solo album by Justin Currie — who formerly fronted the criminally and terminally underappreciated Del Amitri — may see daylight around October 9. “Until then, I’d been living on my knees.” (And countless spins of the old records.)