AdamW on Linux and more

So what does it make sense to do the week after FUDCon, with Fedora 17 Alpha impending? Why, work on fixing random annoying bugs, of course! That’s pretty much what I’ve done this week. For some reason – I can’t even remember what the reason was any more – I decided to finally nail down [...]

(This is part 3 of my FUDCon odyssey, which I’m trying to split into smaller chunks as per Adam Young’s suggestion. Part 1 is my Day 1 summary. Part 2 is a post on the topic of the talk I gave on the barcamp day.) One of the most fun bits of FUDCon is always [...]

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 [...]

Welp, I’m here at FUDCon Blacksburg. I meant to blog about it ahead of time, but never quite got around to it. It’s a slightly odd organization this year, very hackfest-heavy, with the keynote and barcamp stuff happening only on Day 2. So far I’m feeling fairly useless, as I can’t contribute much to any [...]

Ah, the car crash world that is the ebook industry strikes once more. Most of the Flashman books showed up as ebooks just recently, and I’m off on vacation on Wednesday, so I figured I’d buy the ones I hadn’t read – perfect spot of light holiday reading. First I look in the native epub [...]

I apologize for not updating this blog for a bit – there’s always one more thing that needs doing! However, just because I’ve been quiet doesn’t mean Fedora QA has been inactive – far from it. We managed to crawl across the Fedora 16 finishing line back in November, and we all took a few [...]

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, [...]

I decided to make the F17 jump early here Chez AdamW, and just for laughs, I hereby present the following Stupid Fedora Trick: That’s Neverball, running inside GNOME Shell, running in a Fedora 17 VM, on a Fedora 17 host. Unstable enough for ya?! Impressively, it’s just about playable, though the graphics are bit messed [...]

listening to the end of Dancing with the Stars before Castle came on: “The impressive part [of tomorrow's show]…Andrea Bocelli and Flo Rida!” *blink blink*

EDIT: A previous version of this post listed the release as 2011-11-10, it’s actually 2011-11-08, my error! We did not delay two days or anything. So we just got done signing off on the Fedora 16 release. It’ll be going out according to the (post-Beta) schedule, on 2011-11-08. Mark your calendars! It’ll be a fun [...]