Not a bit wiser, unfortunately.
/me takes the rest of the night off to enjoy a small birthday celebration at home. And yes, I am trawling for birthday good wishes, thanks for asking!
Jeffty is five.
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 …
Special visitation rights.
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 …
Der letzte Teil der Geschichte ist ausgezeichnet.
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 …
Der erste Tag war ausgezeichnet.
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 …
F9 goes gold.
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 …
Another step forward.
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 …
Die Rundfahrt war ausgezeichnet.
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 …
Der Flug war ausgezeichnet.
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 …
“Look kids, it’s the ring strabe.”
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. …