AdamW on Linux and more

jwb: so let me get this straight. you’re using an unreleased kernel with a btrfs and ceph combination? atb9090_: thinking about it jwb: think harder.

This week in Test Days: we’ll be testing ABRT on Tuesday 2013-05-07 and SSSD improvements and Active Directory integration on Thursday 2013-05-09! ABRT is the Fedora tool for catching and reporting crashes. If you’ve been running Fedora 19, or you’ve updated with updates-testing in Fedora 18 in the last few days, you may have noticed [...]

11am: Arrive at work, check out crack pipe from inventory 11:05am – noon: Read online forums, cackle at victims; crack pipe Noon – 1pm: Read latest standards documents; write code that is in technical compliance but to any sane observer appears screamingly inept, baroque, buggy, unusable and downright dangerous 1pm – 2pm: Lunch with friend [...]

Thanks to Daniel Siegel for the link to this one. I have come across some truly crazy bugs in my time – buy me a beer at a conference and I’ll tell you about them – but I don’t think anything tops Trey Harris’ Case of the 500 Mile Email. That’s amazing.

Yup, it’s that time again – one of the bigger weeks of the Test Day cycle, as Graphics Test Week lands once more. Tomorrow, Tuesday 2013-04-23, is Intel graphics Test Day. Wednesday 2013-04-24 will be Nouveau Test Day. And Thursday 2013-04-25 will be Radeon Test Day. As always, we’ll be looking to test out the [...]

The Meme Hustler is the best thing I’ve read all year, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. It’s a hatchet job on Tim O’Reilly, basically, but it’s a really good one, and it winds up being much more profound than that. Really, just go read it right now.

As we work towards releasing the Fedora 19 Alpha (due in a couple of weeks), the Fedora 19 Test Days continue apace. Next up, tomorrow – 2013-04-04 – is printing Test Day. The goal is to check that the printing stack and user-facing tools are all in good working order for Fedora 19. Printing is [...]

OK, then, Mr. Smarty-Pants Forum Search, how do you suggest I search for ‘S3′? It’s not the length of my search query, it’s what you do with it that counts…

As the last post hinted, it’s been hardware refresh time here at HA Towers lately. I usually check on my hardware around this time of year, and this year I kinda remembered that my server box was getting a bit old. I see that I blogged about the last upgrade too, so that was nearly [...]

Like, I suspect, many of you, I’ve done some pretty wacky stuff in my years of building my own systems, but today’s has to be near the top of the list: Yes, it’s the string-mounted SSD. In not-entirely-unrelated news, you may want to think twice before buying a Jonsbo V3+ case (AKA ‘DiyPC’ if you’re [...]