The O/S that keeps me free (as in speech and beer)
This blog post will skip the descriptive narrative, and behave in a little more cut and dried fashion. It’s late and I am out of steam after a tremendous day here at UTOSC 2009. Up early this morning, got breakfast, caught a ride with Doran “fozzmoo” Barton, and then managed …
Today I drove up to Washington after lunch to catch a plane to Utah for UTOSC 2009. The drive was pretty uneventful, and only about a quarter mile of stopped traffic near the Prince William Parkway and then a brief pause north of Woodbridge — it was practically paradise as …
This next couple of months will find me gone practically more often than not. My upcoming schedule looks like this for now: Today until Sunday, Oct. 11: SLC, Utah for UTOSC 2009 Monday, Oct. 12 – Wednesday, Oct. 14: Raleigh, NC for meetings at Red Hat (with Community Architecture team, …
Mike Bonnet has a very useful script for downloading koji scratch builds here. The meetbot will congenially let you chair someone who’s not in a meeting — i.e. the wrong IRC nick. This can be embarrassing when that person takes over chair duties, and not only doesn’t know that action …
Because we’re trying to stomp out a handful of nasty bugs — some of which appear to be thoroughly smooshed, and some of which we’re still attacking with the Rolled Up Newspaper of Free Code Wrangling — the Fedora 12 Beta will be pushed back one week. We expect right …
No, this blog isn’t about my new gym routine, although I have lost a few pounds already (not that you can tell). Nope, it’s about making way in our budget for FUDCon Toronto 2009 so that we can subsidize additional travel for community members. Originally we planned to get some …
Greg, So it was written, so shall it be done. I contacted both of Virginia’s Senators, Mark Warner and Jim Webb, to show my support for the Open College Textbook Act of 2009. It did, indeed, take under five minutes to exercise some of my power as a voting constituent …
Just so no one gets too surprised, I see that our Desktop team has subtly altered the notifications in F12/Rawhide. Notification bubbles now look like this: These bubbles drop the gray theme with a color bar used in previous releases for the more prevalent “none more black” found in Ubuntu …
Very cool — the Hamster applet, which I use to track my time, is featured in the GNOME 2.28 release notes. I really enjoy using this application to keep count of my hours and the way I spend my time during the work day. Thanks to its flexibility for noting …
A couple tidbits related to the FUDCon Toronto 2009 event happening in a few months, of particular interest for travelers coming from outside Canada: Check with your mobile phone provider ahead of time, to check your coverage. Nothing sucks more than coming back from an event to find a huge …