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From the Changelog

I previously documented my first, and thus far only, patch I submitted to Fedora. It was trivial; I’m not up for any awards or anything. But it was a good feeling, and I hope I can contribute some more substantive … Continue reading

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When an Upgrade alone does not Suffice

Well, then, you change themes, put up a new header, delete plugins that you’ve forgotten what-the-heck they do, rearrange widgets, and just have a blog gardening afternoon. The theme is the (now) default WordPress Theme, twentyten. Header graphics credit, as … Continue reading

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I Have Nothing to Say, Therefore I Upgrade

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Snowbound and Upgraded

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, … Continue reading

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A Patch in Time

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Upgrade x2, 2 Days Late

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, … Continue reading

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At Marco’s Booth

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 … Continue reading

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One Photo, Multiple Uses

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 … Continue reading

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