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March 6th, 2010

Best ‘climate sceptic’ put down ever…

Yes, it’s not big, it’s clever, but it *is* very funny.
From the Guardian’s comment section:
MikeCawood wrote: ‘”Global warming” is simply a device used by Labour as a scam to screw more taxes out of the British population. Outside of that it doesn’t exist.’
lierbag: Ignore your detractors Mike. Unlike us, they just don’t realise that with [...]

February 28th, 2010

wow

so at 9:45am today I was lining up to get into a restaurant in downtown.
by 11:30am I was with a bunch of 20 people in the mezzanine of the Hyatt hotel, with 500 other people going completely nuts.
around 3pm, the entire hotel just went insane, and by 4pm we were all out on robson & [...]

February 7th, 2010

It’s bad to be king

Wow, it’s gotta suck to be President Obama right now. You’ve got the conservatives blasting you for your evil schemes to turn the health of poor innocent Americans over to shadowy gub’mint Death Panels (as opposed to, y’know, shadowy insurance company Death Panels), while the geeks excoriate you for your dastardly plans to stop wasting [...]

November 6th, 2009

QOTD

(wwoods) lunch: a clear, flammable liquid, garnished with olives

August 17th, 2009

Poulsbo update: kernel 2.6.30 support

Kernel 2.6.30 went into updates-testing for Fedora 11 today, so I decided to test the Poulsbo stuff with it. Not at all surprisingly, the module doesn’t build out of the box with 2.6.30, it hits two failures. One of them I fixed myself, for the other I am eternally grateful to the wonderful Chuck Ebbert [...]

May 6th, 2009

Virtualization Test Day tomorrow!

Tomorrow – Thursday May 7th – will be a Test Day for virtualization for Fedora 11. As always, it’ll be held in #fedora-qa on Freenode IRC.
We’d really like to get as many people as possible out to help test. What’s up for testing are the virtualization technologies Fedora has done a lot of work with: [...]

April 6th, 2009

More techno-fiddling

So today was another day of poking at my shiny stuff. I re-flashed my phone with the awesome Titan Reloaded ROM, which is a tweaked and optimized Windows Mobile 6.1 build with the HTC TouchFlo interface that showed up in later models. I also upgraded the radio firmware and installed WmWifiRouter, which makes a Windows [...]

April 1st, 2009

Radeon test day follow-up, Power management test day tomorrow

So the Radeon test day is happening now and has been a great success – many testers present and useful bugs filed. Dave Airlie was online earlier and should be online again in a couple of hours, so we’re still rocking, but thanks to everyone who’s come out so far! Also a big thanks to [...]

March 31st, 2009

Testing the Fedora 11 Installation Guide

Every release, the dedicated volunteers in the Documentation team produce the Fedora Installation Guide, an exhaustive and detailed guide to installing Fedora. For Fedora 11, they have asked us in the QA team to co-ordinate ‘testing’ of the Installation Guide. By doing installations following the instructions in the Installation Guide, we can find issues in [...]

January 4th, 2009

Activity, and Blackberry tethering article

Well, today was the first day of the NFL playoffs and also the semi-final round of the hockey world juniors, but I still managed to get quite a bit of stuff done!
I just finished up writing an article on tethering a Blackberry on Linux (using it as a modem, to get an Internet connection). This [...]