Definition of a good host: Someone who sits on the couch with you at night when you’re visiting town, and lets you be antisocial and work. ? This week I’m down in Raleigh at Red Hat HQ working on the marketing, messages, and mayhem (mama mia, I love alliteration) for …
I’m heading out on the road, this time down to Red Hat HQ in Raleigh. I’ll be working with our marketing and community architecture folks on some Fedora 9 release related stuff. It’s all the same to you, dear invisible friends, because my disembodied voice will be seen in all …
If you camp on the various announcement lists, you’ve undoubtedly seen this post. Yes, unfortunately we had to slip the release just a bit — two weeks, to be exact, putting our new target at May 13th. This is for a few very good reasons, among which are having a …
(I was going to send this as email, but when the title occurred to me, how could I resist posting?) In reference to Dan Williams’ latest post on the latest NetworkManager improvements: I just wanted to let you know this blog post is superb, and you are MY NEW HERO. …
Today I’m hitting the road, first heading to Red Hat’s Tysons Corner office — basically as a jumping-off point for my next destination tonight, the UMLUG (University of Maryland Linux Users Group) in College Park, MD. It should be an interesting talk — I’ve deliberately not gone overboard creating slides …
While setting up for a new MUA, Mutt, I managed to bork part of my configuration, so most of the mail I sent today never got to its intended victims recipients. There may be a bit of a flood, and of course now those screeds will be late as well. …
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson This jumped out at me today and made me think about Fedora, its contributors, and a conversation I had with Karsten earlier today about a …
This is why, no matter how much a bunch of geeks might want to see a naked mockup of Angelina Jolie, Beowulf is just… wrong.
I saw Michael Tiemann’s blog entry and it took me about a half a second to pitch in a donation to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008. The people working on libre art are the same people who give freely of their time and energy to make everything you use in …
$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 125 sudo 110 ls 104 less 68 cd 60 make 49 rpm 38 sed 35 gpg 33 cvs 25 emacs Probably due to a bunch of package messing about.