Cinematical reviews a portrait of one of the only writers to come out of the science fiction genre who will matter in a hundred years — Harlan Ellison, in a biopic called Dreams With Sharp Teeth. Go HE! I met Harlan once at a book-signing and, determined not to raise …
FUDCon attendees in Boston will get a special surprise on Thursday, June 19th at 4:00pm, when Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst makes an appearance at FUDCon to talk about Fedora, its relationship with Red Hat, and his personal experiences with the distribution and as a Linux aficionado. Like many of …
LinuxTag, the rest of the story. By Thursday the conference is heading into full swing. We’re starting to notice that a lot of people are coming by our booth not just because they want to pick up free distros, but because they are interested in getting involved. A group of …
Why are all these posts named the same thing? Because “ausgezeichnet” is my favorite word in German. That and “gemuetlichkeit.” After an extremely late night with the Ambassadors, Max and I get up with far too little sleep. Some strong coffee in the hotel breakfast room helps quite a bit …
No, we’re not re-releasing. But sometime in the last few hours, Fedora 9 shipped its 100,000th BitTorrent download! That’s in addition to over 235,000 direct downloads we’ve seen through the web proxy logs. Over a third of a million digital copies of Fedora 9 media out in a little over …
Quite some time ago, most of the people who run all the giant Fedora website steampunk machinery decided that it was high time we migrate to a wiki that better suits our needs. After some requirement gathering and research, MediaWiki became the clear winner for us for a number of …
My Tuesday in Berlin. This is the long blog post that precedes the next really long blog post about my Wednesday in Berlin. ? Setting the dogs a-barkin’. After a fairly decent night’s sleep, I got up at 0700 to search out some Fruehstueck (breakfast). There was a cozy shop …
These posts may be a little behind realtime… this covers my Sunday/Monday journey. Leg the First. I manage not to forget anything vitally important, like my passport, or my wallet, or how to negotiate Sunday afternoon on the I-495 Beltway. (I don’t travel around up in “true” Northern Virginia as …
The last time I used my German language skills regularly was about twenty years ago in college. I was good enough at it to read “die unendliche Geschichte” in the original German in high school, and only had to take a single semester in college to fulfill my graduation requirements. …
Luke Macken, Fedora hacker extraordinaire, made an interesting suggestion to me the other day: How about having lightning talks like at PyCon 2008? I think it’s a great idea. We could hold a number of talks in five-minute slots for some length of time on Thursday night, after the hackfest …