That’s the longest break I’ve ever taken from blogging: 36 days without a post. At first I was just too busy for a week. Then as time went on, I had more and more things I was thinking about blogging — the pile of ideas kept getting bigger. Finally the …
With only two days left until Fedora 14 release, I went ahead and upgraded the behemoth in my home office, a Dell XPS 730x workstation, to the new “Laughlin” release. Once again I used preupgrade to do the bulk of the work. Because there’s not an official preupgrade update out …
Just got a ASUS EeePC 701SD which I picked up from Mark Clanton, after he told me at UTOSC 2009 that he was selling it. Sure, it’s not the newest, latest, greatest netbook out there, but it was a plum price and I don’t have any sort of netbook currently. …
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 …
A few months ago I discovered a neat trick you can play in Anaconda, the Fedora installer, and thought I would spend time writing it up and passing it on. Imagine you have a USB hard disk with the release tree available. It doesn’t matter what release, but let’s assume …
I’ve just discovered the hamster-applet package in Fedora 11, and I think I’ve found another great productivity tool. Courtesy of Project Hamster, it’s a time tracking tool that doesn’t try to be more clever than I am, and instead stays out of my way while I work. It gives me …
According to this posting to the fedora-test-list by Liam, there’s going to be some installation testing for the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha candidate next week, on Wednesday July 29. This is a chance to shake out some of the new features in the Anaconda installation application that have come in …
Regarding an earlier post, I made some changes to my NetworkManager dispatcher script. The problem with the original was that it reset defer_transports when any interface went down, without regard for redundancy. Since I use my laptop in my home office, it’s often plugged into a wired network. When I …
Update to my last post about email setup… As a remote worker, I travel frequently, and often work away from my home office. My workhorse computer is my laptop, which has most of my important data. Unfortunately, I’m not always near a working open wifi, and that happens frequently in …
I don’t usually take a lot of time on my blog to write about apps, but as I was doing some administrative cleanup this morning, I realized I needed to give some props. I’ve been using the mail reader Mutt for about a year now, coupled with the offlineimap utility, …
