AdamW on Linux and more

I always think it’s fun when you can catch those nearly-there-but-just-not-quite-right ideas which always look so funny ten years down the line, right when they actually happen. Motorola’s Lapdock is an absolutely textbook example of the genre. You can kind of see how they got there from here, after all. “Man,” they thought, “it’s a [...]

It’s Test Day time again tomorrow (2011-10-13)! This week’s Test Day is a bit of a special interest one: it’s mostly going to be interesting to Fedora packagers. We’ll be testing the Fedora Packager for Eclipse plugin, an extensive plugin for the Eclipse IDE which turns Eclipse into an ideal environment for maintaining Fedora packages: [...]

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…

I really, really wish I’d known about the ‘mapchars’ option to mount.cifs before I rsynced my entire music collection to a CIFS share (when I switched from storing it on my HTPC to storing it on a NAS box). Turns out every track with a question mark in its name went missing during that process, [...]

So we had this little Beta release today, you may have heard about it. Go grab the Beta, have fun – but be warned, it’s a fairly Beta-y beta. It’s fine for a Beta, but it’s not like some other recent Betas which have been near production quality. Do read the common bugs page, and [...]

Well, this is messy. Mozilla managed to release Firefox 7.0 with a large bug which means that any add-on for which an update is pending when you install the Firefox 7 update will apparently disappear after the update. We managed to release the update to Fedora 15, thanks to positive feedback, even though I tried [...]

A bittersweet afternoon: I just completed migration of my mail server from Mandriva 2010.1 to Fedora 15. MDV 2010 is out of support now, I don’t trust MDV 2011. I could’ve gone with Mageia, but it just seemed simpler to stick to Fedora for everything. So now all of my personal machines and servers are [...]

So it’s been a long hard slog – see this mini-essay for some details – but we finally have second release candidate for the Fedora 16 Beta. (Yes, you read that right, a release candidate for a Beta: this is not mass-market stuff). If you want to help us ensure the Beta release goes out [...]