In deference to Adam Young, I’m going to try and write a series of broken-down posts on FUDCon, rather than one or two giant mish-mash-y summaries. So, this one’s about the presentation I gave, titled ‘Cloud 0.1′, with a subtitle I haven’t quite nailed down yet, but which is something like ‘Why Not to Spend [...]
So for months I’ve used http://www.google.com/maps/m to get a mostly-usable Google Maps interface for my N900. This seems to have been the standard way to do it for N9 users as well. (Ovi Maps is useless: its public transit routing is awful and it just doesn’t have the ‘interesting places’ database that Google Maps has, [...]
Reading this neat guide to writing git commit messages, a random thought occurred to me which I hadn’t actually seen written down anywhere before… I wonder how many guides to getting started in open source (whatever) include the single most important instruction I’ve ever come across, which applies to just about any action you can [...]
I’m generally happier working on projects which are small and sort of grassroots-y and generally held together with duct tape, which is why if you ask anyone who works with me at RH they’ll tell you I recoil instinctively whenever anyone asks me anything about RHEL (which I’ve still never actually run). But this is [...]
I’d just like to say a huge thanks to HP and the folks at Canonical who work on Simple Scan – at long last, HP fixed up the ADF support for my 1212nf multifunction printer in hplip, and Simple Scan has completely awesome multiple document scanning / saving capabilities. So I can just load up [...]
If you ever find yourself looking at the four or five spam mails you get daily and wondering if SpamAssassin actually does anything any more, try rebooting your mail server and forgetting to start the SA service. When you wake up the next morning to 56 spam mails, you’ll have your answer…
When I first heard that Steve Jobs was dead, I shrugged and carried on working. I never met him or interacted with him in any way, and he had little impact on my life; it’s sad that he’s dead, in the general way that it’s sad when anyone dies, but I have no context for [...]
A bittersweet afternoon: I just completed migration of my mail server from Mandriva 2010.1 to Fedora 15. MDV 2010 is out of support now, I don’t trust MDV 2011. I could’ve gone with Mageia, but it just seemed simpler to stick to Fedora for everything. So now all of my personal machines and servers are [...]
Just a quick note that I’ve updated the SSL cert for happyassassin.net. It’s still self-signed and hence you’ll have to allow an override if you want to use https to connect to the site for some reason, but at least it’s not expired any more, and has a ‘correct’ CN, so if you’re using Convergence, [...]
Just a quick reminder that it’s still Graphics Test Week here at Fedora QA towers – thanks to everyone who came along to nouveau Test Day yesterday! Today is Radeon Test Day, and tomorrow will be Intel graphics Test Day. More details in this post.
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