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Like several other Red Hatters this week, I’m traveling to Brno in the Czech Republic to attend DevConf.cz 2015. DevConf is a fantastic open source conference that focuses on new technology upstream in dozens of important projects. It’s a great place to find out what’s coming next, and what’s already …
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 …
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 …
I had some spare time this morning and a few people had reached out to me about my bass collection, so enter my 2013 Nexus 7 and YouTube, et voila!
After I cleaned up and ate a light breakfast at the hotel, I strolled back to the university building for the second day of the 2013 DevConf.cz event. In case you didn’t see them, here are my reports on part 1 and part 2 of the first day. One thing …
Yup, 0.1.9 has finally made it out the door. Here’s the tarball and the git repo. There are also updated packages coming shortly in Fedora 17, 18, and Rawhide. If you want to help test those to get them out sooner, look here for the package for your Fedora release. …
For a while I’ve been using the GNOME Evolution address book with Mutt, my favorite email client. I use a script called mutt-eds-query, which consults the default evolution-data-server (EDS) address book to find contacts whose name or email address match a substring. I have a couple thousand contacts still stored …
Why has it been so hard to update my blog lately? Probably because my free time has dropped again recently, what with the band getting back together. I’m back to playing with my friends Steve and Rich, for the first time — not counting two spurious shows in 2010 — …
Yesterday was a hackfest/workshop day at FUDCon Blacksburg. I spent a little time listening in on secondary arch work going on around Fedora. It sounds like there is a lot of effort going into keeping secondary arches rolling really smoothly through Fedora 17 and beyond. There were some folks from …
According to a robocall we received yesterday, our school system has just found out they can automate the process of calling a sizable chunk (if not all) of the schoolchildren’s parents in the county to alert us about “important news.” And the chirpy message from our county superintendent of schools …
