Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>Fedora</span>

Another great add-on.

Courtesy of the inimitable Karsten Wade, and in response to Allen’s post, I’d like to add It’s All Text! to the list of good Firefox extensions. Karsten and I use this to call Emacs for doing editing of wiki pages — so important when you have a twitchy touchpad.

Santa strikes gold.

I knew that when we ordered a G1G1 XO laptop for my daughter, it would either hit it big, or go down in smoke and flames. As I’m sure the OLPC folks could have guessed, it’s an ENORMOUS smash. Evie hasn’t spent more than a few minutes away from it …

Picking up the pieces.

On Tuesday night before going to bed, I started to thaw my Dell XPS M1330 laptop from hibernation, and hard powered it off to abort. Perhaps an ill-advised move, I agree. (The beatings have finally ceased.) The Dell BIOS (I assume) “helpfully” took this opportunity to survey my disk and …

A good flip-flop.

Max posted to fedora-devel-announce that we might swap days on the FUDCon schedule, splitting the hackfest days — Friday and Sunday — with the BarCamp day on Saturday. This potentially could turn out to be a great routine arrangement for FUDCon. since now the Saturday sessions can benefit from being …

FDSCo nominations underway.

According to our schedule, the Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (FDSCo) nominations are open. We have three seats up for election this cycle. Vigorous work is underway for more documentation for Fedora 8/9, and we want to see strong community leadership driving the development of these docs. A recent influx of …