As many around me have probably noted, I've been extremely busy with my new job and get-togethers with friends/family over the past week or so; and I've thus not had much time recently to devote to Fedora hacking. There have been prior times too where I've just up and vanished from the 'Net for several days at a time ( Read more... )

I just briefly explained the etymology of the 言 (words, to say), 時 (time, hour), 間 (interval), 本 (book), and 森 (forest) Kanji to a visiting neighbor...in Spanish ( Read more... )

Hmm. I had been tweaking my mail server's junk filter recently and inadvertently made it too strict, it seems. Unfortunately I have it set to auto-delete anything older than a few days and only rarely do I check it for false positives ( Read more... )

Ya acabo de ver la película «Big Buck Bunny», y ¡me gustó tanto ( Read more... )

We just came back from an El Torito restaurant nearby, where I took my dad out for Father's Day, and I cannot help but to think, "What the heck is up with El Torito's chefs?"

My dad and I both had to get our orders switched twice because the dishes they gave us were too spicy, even though we had explicitly told our waiter that we did not want any ( Read more... )

File dialogs do not automatically update to reflect new drives, such as inserted USB thumbdrives and similar. Fail, Microsoft. Epically.

So, we finally got a couple of digital converter boxes for our TVs, with intent to get a big-screen HD setup in our living room, and that means getting cable soon too. (Sweet!) Even without that cable, the digital picture is so much nicer quality. Sure, there's the second or two of pause when changing channels to buffer, but the superb (SD only, ( Read more... )

My secondary hard drive - which I was using for backups (queue the irony) and general storage - died on me over the past couple of days. Unfortunately, that was also the drive on which I kept my Virt Manager images. So until I get a replacement, I'm afraid I'll be unable to triage any F-9/rawhide bugs (since my machine is running F-8 ( Read more... )

Tim: I win, it seems! ~_^

According to the great grep and wc utilities, my CS final project consists of 600 lines of comments and 964 lines of 80x86 assembler source. (Including nearly 300 blank lines! I guess I am a bit of a whitespace fanatic, but it makes the code so much more readable ( Read more... )

I recently noticed this little gem post on Planet GNOME.

This is outstanding news. Congratulations to the WebKit developers on their hard work and continued accomplishments!