When Max writes about metrics, it’s important to remember that he’s not picking on Ubuntu. We firmly believe that Linux success is roughly proportional forward and backward with Fedora success; my personal feeling is that when Linux does better, any hand-waving and blustering to thte contrary by people with prior …
Things accomplished: Car brakes, fixed. Frustration at apparent Emacs bug, achieved. Technical book review, caught up. Suggestion for DocBook ? PDF, made. ATK bug masquerading as Emacs bug, found. Fedora LiveCD for friend, delivered. Family outing to pizza joint to celebrate daughter’s reading achievements, completed. Freezer door insert, replaced. Work …
Those folks unlucky enough to keep me in their bookmarks and RSS readers will be happy to know I will not make a foolish, half-hearted, and unbearably sophomoric attempt to blog the Oscars again this year. Please, enjoy the starlets in slinky dresses and overwrought dance numbers. Go Marty!
I was a little surprised to read about the lengths to which people will go to be jerks to virtual strangers. I’ve tried both OpenBSD and Gentoo and didn’t find either to my liking. But hey, to each his own. I’m happy to see both these free software projects succeeding …
ESR announced his own obsolescence this week on fedora-devel-list, and I’m sure by the time I post this blog entry, the weight of all the bits wasted on hand-wringing and arguing over his self-important announcement will have collapsed to form a virtual neutron star. I for one found it funny, …
We’re the only ones left and we’re flat on our backsTaking the rest of the day off… Yes, it’s a wonderful day to get some work done at home. I got up at a pretty reasonable time, exercised, then picked up some coffee (thank you O SuperWife!), got my email …
Home from work today, since the ice coating all the roads caused our office to stay closed. I finished shoveling the driveway and the sidewalk of all the heavy, wet snow and ice, and now the wind is a blustery, battering background noise throughout the house. But the cockles of …
For a while now in the Docs Project, we’ve used the concept of “beats” to separate the voluminous release notes into easily wrangled chunks. “Beat” is a term that originated in both journalism and law enforcement — and has since been used in other fields as well. A newspaperman would …
Somehow in the last few days, my Liferea program ate the OPML file that lists all the feeds it aggregates. I think I have a backup, but the disk is at my office. So with some quick thinking, some useful little Fedora utilities, and a modicum of organizational sense, I …