Archive for the 'Red Hat' Category

May 21st, 2013

Anaconda Test Day Tuesday, and debugging

Sorry (again) for the late notice, but Tuesday 2013-05-21 – tomorrow or today, depending – is Anaconda Test Day! Yeah, in a way it’s anaconda test day every day in Fedoraland, as we focus a lot of our day-to-day testing on the installer. But the folks running this Test Day have come up with some [...]

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 9th, 2013

Installer memory usage in F19 Beta TC3

So I had a few spare cycles this morning and thought I’d look at the memory usage of the installer in F19 Beta TC3. The awesome Chris Lumens made this much easier back in 2011 by adding memory use logging functionality to anaconda. He wrote up his findings at the time – based on a [...]

May 6th, 2013

ABRT and SSSD Test Days this week

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 [...]

May 3rd, 2013

A Day In The Life Of A Firmware Engineer

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 [...]

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.