Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
The food chain that eats its own tail. To Chris’ post on bacteria-devouring virii, I say why not? After all, we already have oil-eating bacteria. What puzzles me is, why can’t we just eliminate the middleman and pass the savings on to you? Revisionism on revisions. I hate CVS. I …
I am a stickler for keeping my fingers off CDs and DVDs. The idea of coating the plastic surface of all that digital media goodness with my yucky finger oils and dead skin cells just turns my stomach. I’m always neurotically careful to hold them by the edges; it’s a …
Fedora Core 4 is released today! Join the torrent if you have some spare bandwidth, and remember to leave it open to help others.
Among the other thoughtful gifts I received, Eleya bought me a small amount of stock in Red Hat. Although the stock price has dropped somewhat from last year, most of the analysts rate it at hold or buy, and the outlook over the last six months has been pretty positive. …
This morning I have 147 emails incoming from Gmail. (They’re not finished loading yet.) That’s double what I usually get overnight, even subscribed to several of the mailing lists. Have the spam hucksters found a better bazooka? I am dreading the end of the send/receive cycle. Of course, it could …
Data Recovery After the catastrophe, I was able to recover most of my important information. I would classify as “important” the following things: * Taxes (backed up) * Digital pictures of the kids * Web site data Unfortunately, “most” in this case means all of the top two categories, and …
Overnight on the fedora-devel-list, from a hapless non-native English speaker: Hi, Our country, Nicaragua, recently changed from a fixed CST time to a CDT time. The patch seems to be ready here: [URL deleted] Is posible to see a patch for FC3 and include it in the next FC4 release? …
Karsten finished editing the Style chapter for the Documentation Guide last night. After a quick once-over to correct a few inconsistencies â??- Iâ??m sure there are other bugs in there to stomp out -â?? itâ??s going up to the web server. The next major project Iâ??m going to tackle is …
Finally, someone’s combined the two greatest things in the world: Open source and beer. Zymurgists, take heed!
I did a huge amount of work this weekend for the Docs Project: Outlined the next-gen Documentation Guide; Outlined part of a new hands-on example tutorial section; Read oodles of archived messages and bugs in Bugzilla to gather dangling inputs for the Guide and our other process docs; and Even …