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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
BBC journalists do have moments of magnificence that very few can ever hope to match… “The sight of two men pushing a partially-dressed, pale, stiff body on an office chair raised the suspicions of a passing policeman.” Well…you *hope* it would. You really, really do.
My rebuilding-really-old-stuff binge is continuing. I got stuck for about three days on Skencil, a fairly old but still moderately used drawing app. After lots of frustration, lots of grepping, lots of exceedingly ugly perl substitution commands and several patches judiciously stolen^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed from other distros, we now have a Skencil package that builds on 2007.0, [...]
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