Archive for May, 2009

May 12th, 2009

iBus Test Day on Thursday

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Will Woods lovingly caressing his Thinkpad’s fingerprint reader for the sixty seventh time today? No, it’s – another Test Day!
Yes, this Thursday – May 14th – will be a Test Day for iBus, the new default input method framework for Asian languages for Fedora 11. [...]

May 11th, 2009

that was the biggest pile of bullshit ever (and remember I’m a Mets fan who remembers the last two seasons all too well).
we played a fantastic game of hockey, scored five top class goals, comprehensively outplayed the hawks in every area of the game all night…and lost on a barrage of ridiculous bounces and terrible [...]

May 11th, 2009

Quotation of the day

From Stephen John Smoogen, on fedora-devel-list this morning:
“When dealing with anything with Oracle.. one has to look at where the money is. Oracle will say a lot of things but what they do will be what gets Larry Ellison another yacht.”

May 8th, 2009

Farewell

So farewell, 3D Realms – or, rather, Apogee, as I always thought of them…
The second oldest computer games I really remember playing are Commander Keen and Crystal Caves, two of the classic side-scrolling platform games Apogee brought out under the shareware model it more or less pioneered, giving away a third or so of the [...]

May 7th, 2009

Superstars? Pfah.

Crosby? Ovechkin? Pah.
Best goal of the playoffs – Rick Rypien to Darcy Hordichuck. believe it, foos!

May 6th, 2009

Virtualization Test Day tomorrow!

Tomorrow – Thursday May 7th – will be a Test Day for virtualization for Fedora 11. As always, it’ll be held in #fedora-qa on Freenode IRC.
We’d really like to get as many people as possible out to help test. What’s up for testing are the virtualization technologies Fedora has done a lot of work with: [...]

May 6th, 2009

The Fedora bug process

In a shockingly work-related post – this morning I got a bit inspired, and made extensive revisions to the Fedora bug process page.
Hopefully, nothing’s controversial, just a better documentation of the existing process. One significant thing it formalizes was discussed at the QA meeting this morning: what happens when a Rawhide bug gets fixed. It’s [...]

May 4th, 2009

Full of awesome: Google Maps mobile

If you follow my blog you may have detected I’m not a big fan of Google in some ways, but they do get some things incredibly, awesomely correct. (Like, of course, basic search, which is the big thing they got incredibly awesomely correct, and the main reason they’re now very rich).
One of these things is [...]

May 1st, 2009

Funny

Slashdot does give you a good laugh sometimes. There’s an interesting story there about music copyright infringement back at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. The story mentions that the publishers fought the infringement – which was basically unauthorized copies of sheet music being sent by mail – by asking the Post Office not to [...]