Posted February 6th, 2008 by Administrator
… to host my own blog..
Service has been resumed here:
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Thank you.
All posts and comments have been migrated, and since Wordpress.com offers much better spam filtering than I’ve been able to run on my own server comments have now been reenabled. The domain will continue to be available untill further notice but will […]
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Posted February 6th, 2008 by Administrator
I’ve been reading all the Fedora 9 Alpha announcement posts, and well done everyone, Fedora 9 is shaping up to be a massive innovation… if only it would install on my dmraid setup.
Regardless to the point, I found the following in Rahul’ post:
* FreeIPA, an integrated solution combining Linux, Fedora Directory Server, FreeRADIUS, MIT Kerberos, […]
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Posted February 5th, 2008 by David Nielsen
I always enjoy Matthews talks mainly because he seems to be exercising his own brand of passive-aggressive humour, his LCA talk Suspend to Disk - Why does it hurt so was no exception.. if anyone needs 30 mins of laughter I recommend hitting this, I found it to be even more amusing than watching DaveJ […]
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Posted February 4th, 2008 by David Nielsen
Alex orphaned Beagle.. with the words “anyone who uses this and has a bit of time would be a better maintainer than him” (paraphrasing).. So in a display of famous last words, I decided to pick it up. Dear lord that spec is hidious, I’ve begun the lenghty process of rewriting large parts of it […]
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Posted February 1st, 2008 by David Nielsen
I’m an avid Banshee fan so lately I’ve been working a bit on getting all the dependencies for the new banshee release working in Fedora and I’m happy to report it’s getting close.
The initial cleaned up SRPM here.
For the new banshee several new dependencies are requires:
ndesk-dbus(-glib) - already in Fedora
boo - already in Fedora
mono-zeroconf - […]
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Posted January 27th, 2008 by David Nielsen
Forbes reports the 25 fastest growing Tech companies, our friends at Red Hat comes in at 11th. Many congratulations to Red Hat on the fine result.
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Posted January 24th, 2008 by David Nielsen
I know I promised to do this as a Christmas present but I had some unforseen problems, regardless you GNOME do lovers, I updated the package to 0.3.0.1 and got the dependencies into both F7 and F8. So now you the tester can install this great tool by simply invoking “yum –enablerepo=updates-testing install gnome-do”. Please […]
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Posted January 16th, 2008 by David Nielsen
Bongo is where it’s at.. and soon it will be in Fedora as well, no kidding.
I’ve also been doing a bit of very mild cleaning up on the package wish list to remove requests which has already been added to our excellent repos.
Over the past few days I’ve helping Paul Johnson increase our collection of […]
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Posted January 14th, 2008 by David Nielsen
Ever since I got wireless networking at home I’ve been a part of the FON community, I don’t much mind people using my internet in a limited fashion as I think this is the best way to get good wireless coverage in and around my town. However today that ended, not because I suddenly dislike […]
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Posted January 14th, 2008 by David Nielsen
Andrew, I don’t know either, but I do know that I have not received even a rejection on my application for the job as evangelist. Regardless many congrats to the chosen one, I hope he or she will do a great job exposing the great contributions OpenSUSE and Novell are making to our common community.
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