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

MOTÖRing up, part 4.

I just published the latest in my video series on getting your Behringer MOTÖR keyboard working well with Pro Tools as a recording controller. If you’re not familiar with the series, check out this earlier post for a link to the first YouTube video, and then go from there. This …

MOTÖRing up.

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I wrote something on the blog. It seems like social networking has taken all that content into its tornadic funnel. I just wanted to note that I’ve been working on a YouTube playlist that helps you use a Behringer MOTÖR 49 or …

Holiday Break 2017.

My work with the Fedora Engineering team has been a whirlwind this year. Of course, with lots going on in the releases and infrastructure, between modularity, continuous integration, Atomic, and more, there has been plenty for everyone to do. With both new and departing folks on our team there’s also …

Holiday break 2015.

The upcoming holiday break seems like a good time to break my silence on the blog. I haven’t had much time for writing of my own lately. I’ve been using most of that time writing and editing for the Fedora Magazine. That’s been quite rewarding, and our readership there keeps …

Writing to be read.

Here’s my point (TL;DR*): Write to be read.** Where do I get off? As you read this, don’t forget: I’m speaking from experience as a bad writer of email! I’ve made every mistake I point out here, and most of them countless times over. I have lots of room to improve as a writer. But in the same …

CVE-2014-6271 updates on Fedora.

IMPORTANT: Refer to this update for revised instructions. What is CVE-2014-6271? CVE-2014-6271 is a GNU bash vulnerability that permits specially-crafted environment variables to inject shell commands. This is a fairly serious issue. If you don’t want to wait out the hours until stable updates are issued to fix your Fedora …

Flock Day 2.

Here’s a summary of today’s activity at Flock 2014 where I participated or attended. I also have a blog entry reporting what I did on Day 1 of the conference. Up at 7:00am (relatively late) to meet Fedorans for breakfast before going to the venue. I attended Stephen Gallagher’s talk …