Merry Christmas! The weather outside is… well, if not frightful, maybe just off-putting, but we had a nice morning anyway. Got a haul of nice clothes, the collected Bone, aftershave from the kids (don’t laugh, I asked for it — literally), and a business card folio. We presented the kids …
I finally figured out the KDE documentation procedure, which means I can get FDP work packaged for both GNOME and KDE. This was very important to me because I didn’t want to help perpetuate the perception that hard-core Fedorans don’t like KDE. I googled far and wide and found only …
Christmas music playing in the office today, and I have only one thing to say: Die, Mannheim Steamroller, DIE.
Linux super-artist and Red Hatter Diana Fong has created a bitchin new desktop invocation of the Fedora logo. Check it out! UPDATE: Helped contribute some images to the tour page.
Greg writes an interesting bit about the discrepancy between telco and cable regulation and what it means — or at least what Lawrence Lessig thinks it means — to the future of information flow and open content on the Internet. The same spirit of innovation that fueled the Internet revolution …
Today I am taking the whole family down to Charlottesville for a Christmas supper party with some close friends. I normally love driving down Route 20 through Montpelier and Barboursville, but today I am looking forward to it even more. Because today I have a new companion for the drive, …
As my former colleague Dave found out, it was a very messy morning indeed. Not three cars ahead of me, going over a bridge that forms an overpass over the train route near our house, some bozo decided that there was really no reason to exercise any caution due to …
I heard this word today on the news and actually want no part of it. But the rest of the report was interesting in that it said that Iraqis are investing in real estate (as opposed to gold), and that refugees are returning, overall, in droves, which hardly seem like …
Here’s an interesting account of a Linux lover’s experiment in giving out freedom. I really enjoyed reading about the innovative way he chose to do this. What’s very sad are the many comments from other Linux geeks which completely missed the point of the article. Seriously, folks, you need to …
Does anyone still harbor doubts about the utility and economy of free software? If so, here is confirmation from within the usually silent halls of Google. (And keep in mind the story is somewhat old, written by an ex-Googler.)