Fudcon Day 0
Thursday (Fudcon Blacksburg 2012 day 0) was a travel day for me. Had to get up at the unreasonable hour of 4:45 to catch the shuttle to the airport, then to my first flight to chicago. That went off...
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Fudcon day 1
Fudcon day 1 started with having to get up at 7:30am to get ready for the 9am starting time. Thats 5:30am my time, so that’s an excuse for me being groggy this morning. Had no problem getting to the...
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Saturday started off super early: Scheduled for a 8:30 start (although we didn’t actually start until 9am). We had some intro and then pitching of barcamp sessions. Lots of nice sounding sessions. Then...
View ArticleFudcon day 3
Day 3 started out over at Macbride hall again. Some of us Fedora Infrastructure folks got together to hash out any issues and projects we are concerned about in the coming weeks, months or year. We may...
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Post Fudcon todo’s
After seeing Christoph’s post fudcon 2012 todo list I thought that making a post fudcon TODO list was a great idea. Here’s mine (help welcomed!): Need to drop our staging git branch in puppet and merge...
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Please update your links: download.fedora.redhat.com -> dl.fedoraproject.org
A week or two back we got a bug report from someone that they were downloading Fedora from download.fedora.redhat.com via https and the ssl cert didn’t match up. Of course it wouldn’t, as...
View Articlerc.local in Fedora
A number of folks have asked about this in #fedora over the last few months, so I thought I would do a quick blog post about rc.local in the systemd world. /etc/rc.d/rc.local is no longer shipped, but...
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Has it really been a year?
I got a little email note from the Red Hat HR folks today congratulating me on my 1 year anniversary with Red Hat. It really has gone by so quickly, so much to do, so much to learn, so much to work on....
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Xfce 4.10pre1 in Fedora
Xfce 4.10 pre1 was released on 2012-04-01 (no joke! In the last week I have built and landed it in Fedora rawhide, including rebuilding all the plugins against the new libraries. The only application...
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Goodbye to a friend…
Yesterday I had to say goodbye to a long time friend. ;( Farewell Bitters. I’ll miss your mrows from the kitchen, your so very loud purring (missing these last few weeks), and your curled up calico...
View ArticleFedora 17 (prerelease) and updates-testing
If you have a Fedora 17 install and updated recently (since saturday), you may or may not have noticed that the updates-testing repo is now disabled. It’s enabled for testing during most of the...
View ArticleXfce 4.10 final in Fedora
Xfce 4.10 was released to the world 2012-04-28 and Fedora rawhide was updated in the days right after that. (Thanks Christoph!) Our Fedora 18 feature has been approved:...
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Merlin: 1998 – 2012
Yesterday, we finally had to make the decision to send Merlin on his way. It never gets any easier to make that decision, but once again, I think we made the right one at the right time. (At least I...
View Articlef17 distro-sync gotchas
As I noted recently ( Fedora 17 and updates-testing ) In the run up to Fedora 17 release, the updates-testing repo has been disabled. If you are wanting to use ‘yum distro-sync’ to sync your...
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Fedora Folks: remember to go vote!
Fedora Elections are open for votes until 2012-06-07 23:59UTC. The Fedora Board (electing 3 seats), FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) (electing 5 seats), and FAMSCo (Fedora Ambassadors...
View ArticleA short rant about ‘security questions’
It seems like many places are now setting up or making people use ‘security questions’. These are questions (and answers) that can be used to verify your identity in the event that your password is...
View ArticleAndroid device encryption
Last night I played around with the device encryption on my nexus 7. First of all, android uses dm_crypt, just like a Fedora install would. cryptsetup however is not used, android has it’s own...
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New Sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure
Folks who access fedoraproject.org resources may have noticed in the last week that things have become a bit faster. The reason for this is simple: We have a new sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure! I’d...
View ArticleFedorahosted changes: cgit and fedorahosted-announce list
Wanted to mention to everyone 2 changes related to fedorahosted.org. First of all, we switched over to cgit from gitweb-caching. This move was a bit rockier than I wished, as I didn’t have all the...
View ArticleFedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org
I’m happy to announce the general availability of our status.fedoraproject.org site. This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to check on the status of services provided by...
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