January 5, 2010 – 8:25 pm
Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB metric, or maybe two. The first is $DAYJOB TDS1, and the second would be $DAYJOB [...]
December 19, 2009 – 2:51 pm
I’ve inherited my Mom’s intolerance of clocks that aren’t right. I just now noticed that the timestamp on my last three posts is wrong; it’s the EDT, not EST, time.
So, I made a little adjustment to the time-stamping, after seeing this in WP settings for timezone:
Unfortunately, you have to manually update this for Daylight [...]
December 19, 2009 – 2:44 pm
I spent part of Snow Day today upgrading this old blog to WordPress 2.9.
I’ve never been able to get the automatic WP upgrade to work; it seems to download the upgrade, it says “Done” in the dashboard status bar, but then nothing happens. Perhaps I’m either impatient, do not understand the process, or both.
So, [...]
October 26, 2009 – 7:34 pm
I just got word that a patch I submitted will be included in Fedora 12.
OK, so the problem was a simple typo in system-config-kickstart, which caused it to crash when invoked with the –generate option. Something a junior high kid could fix. But that’s not the point.
I post this, not to blow my [...]
October 22, 2009 – 7:40 pm
Back from a post Constantine upgrade reboot. Network Manager applet problems … gone!
Sound playing problems persist; I could head to some Fedora Forum and bitch up a storm to the effect that “#@%!@ sound don’t work!”, but since I know little about the underpinnings, I’ll do the research, use Uncle Google, and if I get [...]
October 22, 2009 – 7:21 pm
Last Tuesday, Constantine, the Fedora 12 Beta, was released. I make it a point to upgrade sooner rather than later. And, thanks to Fedora’s preupgrade, followed by 1.1G of downloads, and what seemed to be interminable disk-thrashing, the upgrade finished, and /etc/redhat-release now reveals:
Fedora release 11.92 (Rawhide)
Thus far, Constantine has performed well. A few sound [...]
September 8, 2009 – 12:12 pm
One of the attractions at Red Hat Summit was Marco’s Booth, a place to interact with the people from Red Hat’s Global Support Services. It is called Marco’s Booth after Marco Bill-Peter, the head of GSS at Red Hat.
I dropped by the booth to relay my personal thanks for the services of our Red [...]
August 29, 2009 – 3:04 pm
I sent this photo to Dave several years back, as part of my initiation into the EGC Style Council.
The pic was taken by MLB, while she and I were en route to Martinsville for a NASCAR race. We always take the Skyline Drive, the Blue Ridge Parkway, or both on our way. We [...]
calibre, an e-book reader’s best companion, has been upgraded to v. 0.6.5.
In keeping with my history of tips and tricks for installing calibre on Fedora, I offer the following, based on the install I just completed. I’m running Fedora 11, and this worked for me.
I had to install
poppler-devel-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586poppler-qt4-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586poppler-qt4-devel-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
to get calibre to install and have [...]
As documented here, $DAYJOB is detracting from my blogging a bit. I pour most of my vim and vigor into the now required Daily Status Report. I arbitrarily added a couple of sections to my DSR; Observations, Mood, and Thought for the Day. These sections are used for unsolicited editorial comments, at least [...]
Cloudy46°Freal feel: 36°Fcurrent pressure: 30 inhumidity: 75%wind speed: 16 mph Nwind gusts: 20 mphsunrise: 7:19sunset: 19:18Forecast March 16, 2010day
Intermittent clouds57°Fwind speed: 11 mph Nwind gusts: 18 mphnight
Mostly clear33°Fwind speed: 4 mph NNWwind gusts: 7 mphForecast March 17, 2010day
Sunny64°Fwind speed: 4 mph NNWwind gusts: 9 mph
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