AdamW on Linux and more

Well, something like this could always do with more publicity. EDIT: the link doesn’t seem to work right for at least me and one other reader, but it’s definitely the right link: I think there’s something wrong on Noirin’s end, sorry about that. If it doesn’t work for you – if it takes you to [...]

So, I took my name back out of the Board hat . Sorry if that disappoints anyone. I talked to a few people about it, some who thought it was a good idea and some who thought it wasn’t the best way to move forward; so now at least one other person up for election [...]

So I’ve given up on getting OpenID login working again; the straight-up WordPress OpenID plugin has never worked for me (currently if I enable it it’s in a state where it’ll send you out to your OpenID provider, then when you complete that side it sends you straight back to my login page, un-logged-in) and [...]

I couldn’t help but smile when I saw Mark Shuttleworth’s latest blog post. In particular, this line near the end: “In general, this will all be fine – actually *great* – for folks who have good open source drivers for their graphics hardware.” To be clear – I think this is great. Wayland’s a neat [...]

Craig Ferguson’s been on fire lately. Last night, on noticing that it was National Vegan Day, he had the audience nicely trained for a call-and-response bit… “What do we want?” “Vegetables!” “When do we want them?” “All the &^%ing time!” Tonight, on Christine O’Donnell: “In a pre-taped concession speech, she said ‘I’m melting! I’m melting!’”

I’ve been thinking about this for the last week or two, and I’ve decided to run for the Fedora Board elections. I felt a bit reluctant to do this since I’m a Red Hat employee and I’d like to see more non-RHers on the Board and other committees, but in the end I decided it [...]