Well, the weblog is back up, so obviously things are going OK so far. MySQL 5.0 has had no hitches; I ran the recommended update commands as shown in the MySQL documentation, and all the messages looked nominal. I’m restoring user home directories right now.
Today I am upgrading our workstation downstairs to Fedora Core 5, and things are going swimmingly so far. I am (finally) migrating that system to use LVM, since I foresee buying some new storage for it sooner or later. Of course I took backups of everything first, but it’s always …
I just got a hold of a link to a cool blog full of OpenOffice.org tips. Since I use Linux for all my everyday computing needs, this site might really come in handy! Coming soon to a blogroll near… uh, me.
Hey Bastien, I bought one of these for my wife, so it wouldn’t be fair to guess here, I suppose. But you’ll be happy you have one, once you get hot oil involved. *snicker*
Tonight we’re having a birthday party for Evie, and we finally got smart and set it up at a restaurant instead of having the house overrun with munchkins. Here’s a picture of the beautiful birthday girl! I can’t believe she’s going to be five already. It’s just unthinkable.
Eleya and I bundled the kids up early this evening to head out to a St. Patrick’s Day party hosted by some friends in town, and we all had a super-fantastic time. There was a babysitter on the premises (in the basement) to watch over the little ones while the …
Addendum to my earlier post: Also coming in the FC5 final Release Notes is the “ru” locale translation, courtesy of Andrew Martynov, who burst through the finish line in time for the respin. We also have another contender for the “coming soon” Web-based release notes, the “pa” locale, courtesy of …
A road trip without a gig schedule or an axe? Unthinkable! Well, not really… I’ll be coming to FUDCon Boston 2006, with no time for playing around. I should arrive on Wednesday with enough time to get to LinuxWorld, and in particular Jack’s Fedora 5 BoF session that evening. Thursday …
I’ve installed Rawhide, the bleeding-edge software that becomes Fedora Core every six to nine months, on my ThinkPad, which is my main workhorse computer. So far so good; it looks and works great. Fedora Core 5 will be released next week, and it looks to be one of our best …
<cross what=”fingers”>Just in time for the ISO spin</cross>, the Fedora Core 5 Release Notes should be ready in the following tangy fruit flavors: en_US it (courtesy Francesco Tombolini) pt_BR (courtesy Hugo Cisneiros) zh_CN (courtesy Yuan Yijun) (I apologize if I left out a name; these were the ones on the …