A few of the goals I set for myself in 2010 were around making the Fedora release processes better known and understood. I’ve made it a personal challenge–I plan to have a pile of URLs and email archive links to… Continue Reading →
One of my favorite, must-have Firefox plug-ins is It’s All Text. Not only does it make writing long entries in web forms pleasant, it can also save your bacon. Just today I wrote a long email in Gmail using It’s… Continue Reading →
I’ve been running very minimal server installs under KVM to experiment with different web services. As a result I rely on /etc/init.d/network to handle networking. After cloning a guest in virt-manager on Fedora 12, networking does not work on the… Continue Reading →
This quote struck me from an interesting article called World Wide Mush by Jaron Lanier in the Wall Street Journal: Here’s one problem with digital collectivism: We shouldn’t want the whole world to take on the quality of having been… Continue Reading →
Studies have shown that written goals have a higher chance of being met. I have found this to be true and am being more deliberate about setting them for 2010. I like the idea of setting goals better than I… Continue Reading →
When was the last time something on Fedora Planet made you cry? I mean really weep. It hadn’t happened to me until I read Russell’s post. Russell, my heart and prayers are with you and your wife. I particularly appreciated… Continue Reading →
I’ve been banging the drum about the Fedora Board resolving its discussion about the target audience for Fedora’s primary distribution. Ultimately it is a bigger conversation about the strategic direction of the Fedora distribution and what it wants to be… Continue Reading →
As we start into 2010 and development of Fedora 13, it seemed like a good time to reflect on the the first half of my term as a Fedora board member. I would be interested to see other board members… Continue Reading →
At a recent project management class at Portland State University, Tonia McConnell–a great instructor I’ve worked with in other classes–asked me how my meetings were going. Since my first class with Tonia I’ve used Gobby more deliberately in a lot… Continue Reading →
The Fedora Project’s in person events are great for picking up new applications and tips from other people. I love it when little surprises come along that make the desktop experience more pleasant. Discovering Terminator was the last time this… Continue Reading →
Ten months ago (March 2009) I got a new work notebook to replace a broken and out of warranty Thinkpad T41. After going back and forth between the Lenovo Thinkpad x61s and the Dell XPS M1330 I decided on the… Continue Reading →
I am a consumer of Fedora Updates–updated software shipped for supported Fedora releases. I greatly appreciate the work so many package (software) maintainers do in Fedora to make these updates available. I confess to rarely, if ever, being able to… Continue Reading →
Yesterday all open Fedora 10 bugs were closed. Fedora 10 is officially end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer maintained. No more updates will be shipped for it. This ends the Fedora 12 Bugzilla Housekeeping process. Thanks to everyone who helped… Continue Reading →
At the suggestion of design diva Máirín Duffy, I’ve been reading Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown. I’m not that far into the book, but a lot of it resonates with me. Particularly… Continue Reading →
FUDCon Toronto 2009 is over and I’m on the way home. I Attended some good barcamp sessions: Cloud Computing + Fedora and Amazon EC2 Fedora, Zikula and Fedora Insight Can’t we all just get along? – Sysadmin & Developer Panel… Continue Reading →
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