Jef Spaleta prepared new builds of Istanbul, the GNOME screencast recorder, that feature a fix for a long-standing pernicious GStreamer problem. Most Fedora maintainers wouldn’t carry this sort of fix as a patch because it’s pure silliness (basically “ignore this error”), but upstream GNOME is living with it for now …
Problems (and the wailing, and the lashings) continue with the new WRT54GL router. I’m now using the current Tomato 1.19 firmware, which is totally swank but unfortunately hasn’t fixed the problems. The router seems to be offering DHCP addresses on the WLAN, but neither my laptop nor any other box …
Most enjoyable movie night in a long while tonight, watching Stardust with Supawife. Romance, action, magic, drama, and comedy, with the extra one-two punch of Michelle Pfeiffer looking her best (and worst), and DeNiro doing La Cage. In all honesty, I haven’t seen something quite like this since I saw …
Things looking generally up today. For whatever reason, my new WRT54GL is now working fine. Dinner plans with friends fell through, so as nice as that would have been, I now have some extra hours for some bits and pieces I needed to work on. Also, turns out this crazy …
Bumpy ride. To continue today’s epic streak of bad luck: My softphone gave out on me right before I was supposed to speak on an agenda item at a meeting this afternoon. My landline was in use by the wife, and when she got off, the conference system wouldn’t let …
A few weeks after the release of Fedora 9, it will be once again time for Fedora Project Board elections. This time around, as you may have heard, we have shifted our composition to five elected seats out of nine, instead of the previous four. Are you someone who thinks …
A banner day thus far — only wasted two hours this morning getting my wireless setup back to something resembling “working.” Last night I tried replacing my old D-Link AP with a new WRT54GL, in the hopes that I could later flash that unit to something from OpenWrt or DD-WRT. …
Note: This is a bastardization (and cleanup) of a post I made yesterday to the fedora-marketing-list. I think it’s actually very applicable to EVERYONE in the Fedora project, especially if you deal with users. It is *absolutely vital* that all of us be on the same page for how to …
Congratulations to the first Fedora L10n Steering Committee (FLSCo). It’s nice to see so many hard-working translators, whose names I’ve seen many times in various source code commits email, stepping up to lead Fedora’s Localization efforts. These folks really do prove our reputation of meritocracy — they put their money …