http://www.happyassassin.net Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:50:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So here's some quick news. We have the first blocker review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta tomorrow, at 16:00 UTC - 11am EST, 8am PST. That's in #fedora-bugzappers on Freenode IRC. As always, the more people the better, come along and share your wisdom! Especially if you have any potential ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/03/11/blocker-review-meeting-tomorrow-awesome-new-testing-tool-fedora-easy-karma/ It's Test Day time again! This Thursday, 2010-03-11, is webcam Test Day. It's really pretty simple: if you have a webcam we want you to boot up a recent Fedora and check if it works. There's detailed instructions on the Wiki page but that's really what it boils down to ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/03/09/webcam-test-day-on-thursday-2010-03-11/ 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 ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/03/06/best-cliamte-sceptic-put-down-ever/ 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 ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/02/28/wow-2/ This is by far the most interesting blog post I've read this year. It also gives me a great urge to buy something - anything - made by Chumby. If the guy who runs the company is that on the ball, they must be making good stuff, I reckon... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/02/24/you-never-knew-how-much-you-didnt-know-about-the-flash-memory-market/ Okay, so here's the deal - what I know about snowboarding wouldn't fill the back of a postage stamp, but even I can tell when fifteen guys are working very very hard for a silver medal while the other would win the gold with his eyes closed and one leg ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/02/17/shaun-white-holy-crap/ It's Test Day time again! This Thursday, 2010-02-18, will be Color Management Test Day. There's some exciting new color management features in Fedora 13. That is to say, there are color management features in Fedora 13! We've never had any real color management in Fedora before, so this is great news ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/02/16/color-management-test-day-thursday-2010-02-18/ Thanks a lot to Jaap A. Haitsma for alerting me to WPTouch, a very neat plugin for WordPress which automatically presents a mobile-friendly appearance when it detects a mobile browser user agent (and you can customize the user agent list). So now when you visit this blog with a mobile ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/02/14/wptouch-mobile-view-plugin-for-wordpress/ So, this is insane: That's Spring. What's Spring? Well, it's a fairly neat open source RTS framework that started out as a Total Annihilation clone, but more to the point, it's a pretty complex 3D game. What's cool about the picture? Well, it's in the renderer info in the console (which ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/02/12/from-the-freaking-awesome-department-3d-support-on-nouveau/ It seems early as always, but we're just about to start up the Fedora 13 Testing Machine, which will roll on right up to the final release in May. The Alpha release is due early next month, and this week we start off by testing the first Alpha 'test compose', ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/02/10/test-events-coming-up-fedora-13-alpha-test-compose/