AdamW on Linux and more

This is entirely unrelated to Linux or Red Hat or Fedora in any way, just so’s you know. There’s three web comics I read religiously – Penny Arcade, 8-bit Theater, and xkcd. PA seems to have a sort of one-site anti-GameStop campaign going. The comics in this campaign are frequently hilarious – the latest is [...]

This is a big one, folks! The Intel graphics driver is one of the most important in a distribution, as many many people use Intel-based graphics hardware. There are extensive changes coming to the intel driver in Fedora 11 – see the feature page for some details. Tomorrow – apologies for the short notice – [...]

I just noticed the super-awesome PulseAudio guys (Lennart and Colin and others) guys have set up profile switching for PulseAudio. The credit for this one seems to go to Colin – that’s his post on the topic. I ran pavucontrol just now and noticed the tab has showed up, for Fedora Rawhide users anyway. As [...]

I just saw the Dutch baseball team (yes, Dutch readers, you have one!) beat the Dominican Republic (stacked with MLB all-stars) for the second time in a week. That’s so ridiculously improbable I don’t know where to start. Good on ‘em. Great team play, amazing pitching.

I’m currently doing less work than usual, as I’m on an experimental remote learning RHCE training course for four hours a day. It’s quite interesting, actually. We touched on kernel modules today, briefly, and I noticed that when looking through the output of ‘modinfo’, the instructor skipped straight over all those icky ‘alias’ lines. This [...]

So, we’ve got a bit of a hard sell: this week’s test day is on the thrilling-sounding topic of…block devices. Please, try and stay awake! This is more important than it sounds . Block devices are, to a basic approximation, what your Fedora install goes onto – your hard disk, or RAID array, or LVM [...]

Harald Hoyer, the main developer working on improved boot speed for Fedora, posted a great follow-up explaining how the results received from the test day helped to identify areas for improvement – it’s a great way to see how testing helps the developers. Thanks again to everyone who came out!

Had another of those “oh, dear, what WERE they thinking?” moments the other day. Walking back into my building I noticed a car parked up outside (probably a visitor as I’d never seen it before, I would’ve remembered…). Typical Vancouver ricer car – TRD (Toyota Racing Development) decals, bucket seats, custom muffler, all that stuff. [...]