Archive for the 'Personal' Category

May 16th, 2013

Quote of the day

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.

May 1st, 2013

500 mile emails

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.

April 27th, 2013

LinuxFest Northwest, etc

I’m writing from LinuxFest Northwest once more – right now I’m watching Jesse Keating present on git. The conference is really buzzing so far this year; I’ve been spending most of my time manning the Fedora booth, and the swag is disappearing like crazy and we’ve had people stacked three deep at times. It’s always [...]

April 22nd, 2013

Fedora 19 Graphics Test Week kicks off tomorrow!

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 [...]

April 14th, 2013

Fedora 19 happenings

Thought I’d write an on-topic blog post, for a change! Sadly, we had our first Fedora 19 delay last week. I actually was trying pretty hard to get this to be the first release where we didn’t slip at all, but alas, this was not to be. The good news is this is nothing like [...]

April 6th, 2013

Read this. Now.

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.

April 5th, 2013

Why “we”?

From the Department of Random Pontification: What is it with the cancer of “we” which has spread through so-called ‘serious’ journalism in recent years? It really irks me. It’s prevalent in the mainstream online and print media, and in most ‘serious’ media sites in various niches – entertainment, technology, whatever. People who write opinion pieces [...]

April 3rd, 2013

Printing Test Day tomorrow!

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 [...]

March 29th, 2013

Hate of the day: search engines that ignore short queries

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…

March 26th, 2013

Hardware refresh: NAS and server machine

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 [...]