As my strategies for avoiding writing the QA beat for FWN reach ever greater heights, today I finally set things up so I can receive mail at happyassassin.net; I used the rather neat No-IP Reflector service to get around my ISP’s port 25 block, so now my mail server is fully-fledged one at last, accepting [...]
Project Mojito, my long-term work goal, involves us making the Fedora QA process sufficiently well-oiled and automated that the squishy humans can spend all our time on the beach with mojitos. (Continuing to draw a paycheck in this glorious future is a somewhat tricky problem which I’ve yet to solve, but give me time!) Here’s [...]
My educational background doesn’t come into my ‘work’ (ish) life often, as my degree was in history. But today Larry Cafiero set me off with this blog post. In the end I wasted two hours researching the history of Facebook logos. You can find my fascinating dissertation in the comments. Anyone want to give me [...]
So, the weirdness first! For anyone who doesn’t keep in touch with gaming news, the background (that’s an early story, from before this was as solidly confirmed as it now is). Last month, it became apparent that unauthorized third parties have gained access to the Sony private key used to sign all Playstation 3 software. [...]
To celebrate the new year (and because someone poked me about it on IRC), I updated my video-experimental repo. F12 is out, F14 and Rawhide are in, and there are updated versions of mplayer-accelerated and gstreamer-vaapi (which still doesn’t work for me, for the record). There’s a newer vdpau-video available upstream, but it doesn’t build; [...]
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