The O/S that keeps me free (as in speech and beer)
Yup, a new release of PulseCaster is finally out with some real improvements. Iffy design? You betcha. Ugly code? Don’t even get me started. Pernicious bugs lurking? Bring it on. But I’m still happy, and you know why? Working VU meters. That’s right, it took me forever to find the …
One of the fundamental principles I think our community expects from Fedora is that we default to open wherever possible. In other words, unless carrying out a process in an open and transparent way would be impossible (legal reasons, for example), we should do it. And by and large, we …
Back in November I posted about seeing Fedora being used at Pixar in the production of Toy Story 3. Last night TS3 picked up the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Congrats to director Lee Unkrich the Pixar guys — my family and I loved the movie and it’s …
With a title like that, I could go two ways with this blog post, right? One way would be to encourage people to do stuff that’s good for the Earth, like recycling and so forth. There are probably lots of people who could do that better than me. Instead, this …
Here’s a smattering of stuff I’ve been doing in the Fedora Project lately. Although I don’t get to spend as much time on Fedora in my new job, I’ve been putting aside some off hours and a portion of Friday (or as I like to call it, my “no meetings …
Now that’s a nice way to go on Valentine’s Day! I love my wife a lot more, of course, but I’m also proud to say that I love free software. My most sincere thanks to all the people in Fedora and the free software community who work hard every day …
This tip is a short one, but it applies to a lot of people in the Fedora Project, since we all share responsibilities for writing stuff on the Fedora wiki. I often see instructions or guidance on the wiki where the writer wants to provide a link. Often those instructions …
For some reason this week I feel like blogging about some of my time-saving tools. I’m certainly not a superstar when it comes to eliminating wasted time. But when I was FPL I had to figure out ways to be more effective so I could spend more time on the …
I’ve been using GNU Emacs ever since I started working with the Fedora documentation team years ago. I wouldn’t call myself a power user by any means, but it handles my modest needs very well. Other people may have different preferences, which is fine. (Holy wars to /dev/null please.) In …
It looks like my honorable associate Joe Brockmeier has also discovered the beauty of the offlineimap utility, which is one of my favorite productivity tools as well. If you’ve been reading my blog for some time, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of using offlineimap in cahoots with the …
