Hey, everyone – I don’t often post stuff like this, as it’s so hard to know where to draw the line, but I had to make an exception in this case. It’s become widely known in the last week or so that Ken Starks, of Blog of HeliOS fame, is suffering from an aggressive throat [...]
Oh, hello. Long time no blog. But I wanted to throw one slightly random note out there: you should probably be reading The Verge if you aren’t already. It’s more or less a gadget-y tech news site in the style of Engadget; it was founded by a bunch of ex-Engadgeters who didn’t appreciate AOL’s plans [...]
Now, not to blow my own horn – I don’t need to, because I’m awesome – but I’m often approached by awestruck fans at conferences and my various public appearances, asking me how I can possibly achieve so much QA work in so little time. Of course, I usually don’t tell them my secret. I [...]
A propos of nothing in particular, I just wanted to echo Jono in giving it up to LibreOffice. Ever since the fork everyone involved with LO has done fantastic work on both the coding and community building side; I’d say they’re a great model for how such a large F/OSS project should work. The substantial [...]
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…