I love the idea of obby/gobby — I just can’t stand the editor. I’d much rather use my beloved Emacs, or even gEdit. But it looks like things are coming together for a more sophisticated D-Bus solution. Once there are network bits tied in, you could use Vim and I …
I could spend a lot of this blog talking about how incredibly insane it is for our government to be spending another $700B bailing out the greedy, the stupid, and the clueless. I could rail equally against both sides of the aisle for acting as if this wasn’t the exact …
I got my results from yesterday’s RHCE exam, and I passed, so I’m now RHCE recertified for RHEL 5! I aced the troubleshooting section, which was cool, but I had hoped to do the same with the installation and configuration section and didn’t quite manage that. I suppose it would …
Fedora release engineering team leader Jesse Keating has proposed that we slip next week’s Fedora 10 Beta by two days, to Thursday, September 25. This is due to a power outage happening in the Red Hat Raleigh office over the weekend. Check out his post on fedora-devel-list and feel free …
Well, this post from Mitchell Baker was good to see as a follow on to yesterday’s post from Spot, especially considering it’s what we would have preferred all along. The MPL is a perfectly useful and trustworthy license for binaries and source code, and we’re glad Mozilla is putting more …
There’s a new feature coming in Fedora 10 that is going to be very apparent to users trying the F10 Beta as their first introduction to the release. Plymouth uses X modesetting to drop the aging rhgb graphical boot engine in favor of a sleeker, faster system. However, the feature …
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With regard to my friend Greg, who is now in the same town as me for a few days, and whom I might see later this week: Me: “Greg’s great.” My dining companion: “But a little full of himself.” Me: “Well, maybe, but if you were him, wouldn’t you be …
My wife alerted me last night to a terrible loss to the literary world — writer David Foster Wallace was found dead Friday night of an apparent suicide. DFW was already at 46 a giant of American literature and, even though he tended to the self-absorbed, his writing was passionate …
I think Joe Brockmeier and I tend to have a lot in common on the subject of comporting oneself, as his recent ZDNet blog entry shows. In that entry, Joe looks at this subject from the practical point of view: How will an employer view your flamefests? But the larger …