Don't say I never gave you nothing.

I've had time to review more of the FUDCon 11 videos, specifically the KVM, Moksha, and Desktop videos. The KVM and Moksha videos pretty much only had me saying "neat", not that I thought they were boring, just that I saw nothing to comment further on; I think both are great ideas and I'm sure that both are only at the very beginning of their ( Read more... )

Every second is a new year; a chance for new opportunities and new successes.

And just so that this post doesn't become completely touchy-feely, here you go.

Whew! I finally got Python 2.6 into Rawhide. I'd like to thank the following people for their invaluable help:

• Jesse Keating
• Toshio Kuratomi
• Alex Lancaster
• Panu Matilainen
• Rex Dieter

Fedora 10 on the XO

blah blah normal Fedora 10 on the XO on a USB drive. Here's how:

1. Find a machine that can boot USB devices and that you can install Fedora with.
2. Get a drive big enough. In my case it's a 40GB.
3. Install Fedora 10 i386 normally, with these options:
• Separate /boot as the first primary partition
• Install grub to /sdX1, not the MBR

Yes, I'm a lazy git, but here it is.

jdahlin has officially fired the PyGTK salvo for Python 3000, so I took the liberty of updating the package to beta 2. Enjoy.

Version 0.1 of fas-planet is now available. It needs the patches from FAS tickets 57 and 59 in order to work. Feel free to tear up the code and tell me what's wrong. I know I'm missing a lot of i18n, and the error-handling is sub-par, but I think I got most of it right.

And for the non-techies, here's an action shot:


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You're absolutely right Alex; it sucks. It sucks, it sucks, it sucks. Now, having said that, it is better (for some people, at least) than the scheme we had before, which is to say... no scheme at all.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that what we had was an antischeme. Sure, all you had to do was send your feed and hackergotchi URLs to someone ( Read more... )

Get it while it's hot!

Blah blah packaging bugs blah blah.