We left the munchkin with my sister on Saturday, and gleefully tore rubber to see Kill Bill Vol. 1, thankfully at our local THX screen in glorious digital sound. And wow, it certainly wasn’t wasted on this glorious tour-de-force. Director Quentin Tarantino shows that he still has everything it takes, …
There’s a tremendously helpful post on the fedora-list mailing list concerning the whole point behind the Fedora Project, its goals, and a pretty thorough explanation of its vision and philosophy for the future. Check it out here. Thanks to Mike Harris, you da man. Don’t forget to check out my …
Note to self: Cancel plans to teach cows “Stop, Drop and Roll” technique.
This morning I had an experience with one of those “training sessions” that makes me feel like I’m in high school again. Now in some ways, feeling like that’s not a bad thing, especially when it’s Saturday night and I’m on stage (or home with the wife and the munchkin’s …
Please, everyone, think of the kittens.
If you tend to mirror the latest and greatest changes from rawhide and don’t have the benefit of an rsync mirror near you, this script might come in handy. It parses out a directory of .rpm files and eliminates duplicate files based on the build times of the RPM’s. I …
I am a big fan of the LyX document processing system, especially for writing academic papers and DocBook stuff for conversion to HTML, PDF, man, ASCII text, and so forth. You can download an old RPM here (don’t forget to pick up that latex-xft-fonts package too). For people running the …
Red Hat Linux Tip o’ the Day: You just burned a set of CD’s for the latest version of our favorite distro (RHL/Fedora) and you want to check whether they’re OK. Why wait until install time to check the MD5 values? Use the code from the anaconda-runtime package to do …
In a move designed to show their stalwart commitment to the open source community, Red Hat has folded their Red Hat Linux product into the new, rejuvenated Fedora Project. If you are looking for improvements in the Linux product space, get involved today! I’m going to try and work on …
Certainly everyone has been reading about Hurricane Isabel, and we of course were slightly affected as well. Our power was restored yesterday evening, just a little while before I arrived home from London. Despite losing a bunch of grocery items to the power outage, everything here is relatively peaceful. We …