I receive occasional queries for good open source project management and scheduling tools. As you probably know by now, our scheduling tool of choice for Fedora is TaskJuggler. TaskJuggler provides a great benefit to Fedora in its flexibility as a… Continue Reading →
Some of my recent posts have covered technology and human interaction. I was pleasantly surprised to find the Public Isolation Project going on here in Portland through a post in Newspaper to New Media. It was fascinating and fun to follow each day…. Continue Reading →
It seems to have become an acceptable practice for some people to disappear every time they get a new text message. We’re sharing the same physical space with the intent of connecting personally, but we aren’t. And if we are,… Continue Reading →
I believe one competitive advantage of the future will be the ability to focus, concentrate, and get things done–the ability to overcome the notion that we can effectively multitask and context switch while doing quality work and having meaningful interactions…. Continue Reading →
Last week, as part of the Fedora 14 Bugzilla Housekeeping process, all open Fedora 12 bugs were closed. Fedora 12 is now officially end-of-life (EOL). This means that no new bugs are accepted for Fedora 12, and updates, including security fixes, will… Continue Reading →
A few months back The New York Times ran a series of articles about our immersion in technology. They were really interesting if not a little convicting and ironic to find them via Twitter. Set aside ten minutes and read… Continue Reading →
One of my goals for the year is to blog at least once each week. Behind that goal is also the desire to become a better writer. I try to make it the first part of my day by getting… Continue Reading →
I attended WordCamp Portland 2010, a conference about blogging and WordPress. There were two sessions tracks and an unconference track. At a couple of the session times, none of the track offerings looked interesting, but I picked one anyway. Without… Continue Reading →
Updated 2011-04-09: Click on the schedule above to navigate to the actual schedule. As of today, Fedora 15 is scheduled to GA on 2011-05-24. It’s official. Yesterday, FESCo approved the Fedora 15 schedule with a release date of May 10,… Continue Reading →
Well, we did it! We released Fedora 14 on schedule after one adjustment for the Fedora 14 Alpha. Want to know how? All the gory details are on the Fedora 14 retrospective page. Think we can make Fedora 15 even… Continue Reading →
The October 2010 issue of Wired Magazine had and interesting article titled Where Ideas Come From. These excerpts struck me in particular: KELLY: The musician Brian Eno invented a wonderful word to describe this phenomenon: scenius. We normally think of… Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I announced that we are looking for someone new to take on the Fedora Program Manager role. Have no fear TK009, I have definite plans to keep blogging. With a perfect record so far in 2010,… Continue Reading →
Last year I lived through a mortgage refinance nightmare. Through an incredibly frustrating experience with a mortgage broker that “had the best rates,” funding their deals with the “lowest rate provider” who has a reputation for the worst customer service… Continue Reading →
If you use kerberos for authentication and you’ve recently moved to Fedora 14, you may encounter this error while requesting a ticket with kinit: kinit: KDC has no support for encryption type while getting initial credentials The bug report suggests… Continue Reading →
It has been quite a journey and we’re almost to the finish line. After shipping the Fedora 14 Alpha a week late because of too many big changes at the last-minute, we released the Fedora 14 Beta on time. We’re… Continue Reading →
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