(for yesterday)
Sub-edited and laid out the entire Mandriva Brasil interview article (three pages) for Inside
Posted Kiosk testing announcement to Club forums
Filed http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21957 on omnibook kernel module missing from stock kernel
finally found someone who may be able to add a link to the new HCL on the old hardware page! allelulia, etc.
sent proposal on improving Club [...]
Edit Mandriva Brasil interview
Yet more Kiosk testing, and further discussion about the Community problem
install MNF2 in vmware to see if there’s any way to make the upgrades process smoother, at walt’s request - seems not, until romain gets Online fixed for it
discussions with Walt and Tarus Balog of OpenNMS about availability of various enterprise Java [...]
Work with Warly to resolve problem with mirroring of updates
Work with Nic to resolve Club HTTPS certificate problem
Talk to Walt about corporate customers, Inside articles, update problems for MNF / Corporate
Received interview responses for Inside from Mandriva Brasil guys, proofread and edited into interview format, will cut for length tomorrow
Further testing on Kiosk, some proposals [...]
For yesterday:
More Kiosk testing - barfs spectacularly on 2006 Xmas edition right now, must fix that
Publish newsletter #118 on Club
Yet more Kiosk testing (still some bugs here and there…)
First draft of Kiosk section of Inside article on One / Kiosk: http://cookerspot.tuxfamily.org/wikka.php?wakka=OneKiosk
Various correspondence (reporting signature errors on Club site, planning removal of mozilla-firefox-1.5 package from Club Software, further discussion on 2007 blocker bugs list)
Translated Club article on new training course offer to English
Further Kiosk testing - Online wizard is not popping up any more, –auto-select is taking care of the missing package upgrades; much better
Follow up on various Club issues, talking with dbarth about a better ‘release critical bugs’ list for 2007
still playing with Inside drafts, italics are [...]
I just found my ideal future vision in a Modest Mouse song:
“It’s been agreed the whole world stinks so no-one’s taking showers any more”
Bliss!
Had a satisfying day yesterday - finally beat my tennis nemesis (now the record’s a mere 1-23…) and got the gold times for the first eight tests in the Gran Turismo 4 A license. Fun!
Today we saw Thank You For Smoking - excellent movie, very funny, though left some rather worrying ethical questions unanswered (and, [...]
Sunday:
second draft of newsletter with added story on TUX Magazine distro roundup
Monday:
third draft of newsletter with added story on newsforge SoS article
new drafts of Inside pages 2 & 3 following marketing dept. suggestions
further Kiosk testing: some improvements to KDE bundle
two PRs for proofreading, one full of hideous EU civil service verbiage, chopped it all out
new [...]