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

Tomorrow night (yes, another Sunday), you can catch me backing up ace songstress Leah Morgan, at IOTA Club & Cafe in Arlington. We will be debuting a couple of new original tunes. That’s right, this is one act not content to rest on its laurels. We are hopelessly devoted to …

Even if you’re a strict vegetarian, this should turn your stomach more than a plate of London broil.

We left the munchkin with my sister on Saturday, and gleefully tore rubber to see Kill Bill Vol. 1, thankfully at our local THX screen in glorious digital sound. And wow, it certainly wasn’t wasted on this glorious tour-de-force. Director Quentin Tarantino shows that he still has everything it takes, …

There’s a tremendously helpful post on the fedora-list mailing list concerning the whole point behind the Fedora Project, its goals, and a pretty thorough explanation of its vision and philosophy for the future. Check it out here. Thanks to Mike Harris, you da man. Don’t forget to check out my …

This morning I had an experience with one of those “training sessions” that makes me feel like I’m in high school again. Now in some ways, feeling like that’s not a bad thing, especially when it’s Saturday night and I’m on stage (or home with the wife and the munchkin’s …

If you tend to mirror the latest and greatest changes from rawhide and don’t have the benefit of an rsync mirror near you, this script might come in handy. It parses out a directory of .rpm files and eliminates duplicate files based on the build times of the RPM’s. I …

I am a big fan of the LyX document processing system, especially for writing academic papers and DocBook stuff for conversion to HTML, PDF, man, ASCII text, and so forth. You can download an old RPM here (don’t forget to pick up that latex-xft-fonts package too). For people running the …

Red Hat Linux Tip o’ the Day: You just burned a set of CD’s for the latest version of our favorite distro (RHL/Fedora) and you want to check whether they’re OK. Why wait until install time to check the MD5 values? Use the code from the anaconda-runtime package to do …