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Why developers suck as admins

November 20 2009

So Fedora 12 allows regular users to install packages as long as a) the user is logged in on the console, and b) they are signed and from a trusted repository.I think it's great that we can enable this functionality, and I'd even argue that it should be on by… read more

Ohio LinuxFest 2009

September 22 2009

So I'm trying to prepare for the 7-hour commute to OLF on Thursday and Friday's class. It should be fun, as always...If anyone reading this is within driving distance (which, in my mind, includes most people in the eastern half of the US), I highly recommend making the trip. And… read more

Note for amavisd-new users

August 10 2009

I just pushed amavisd-new 2.6.4 to rawhide. The major new change in this version is the introduction of a script called amavisd-snmp-subagent. To quote the release notes...- newly supplied with the package is a program amavisd-snmp-subagent, acting as a SNMP AgentX, exporting amavisd statistical counters database (snmp.db) as well as… read more

Hey, spot!

July 17 2009

After reading spot's post, I wanted to try out chromium. Shortly after installing it, I realized that name resolution stopped working.The problem? Installing chromium.i586 pulled in nss-mdns.i586 on my x86_64 system. I installed nss-mdns.x86_64 and the problem went away.Whee!Want to use chromium on x86_64? Do this:cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo <<END[chromium]name=Chromium Test… read more

Can a phone change your life?

July 08 2009

To answer my own question, probably not. I did however get a Palm Pre when they came out (just over a month ago), and so far I like it. I was replacing a craptastic LG flip phone, so my smartphone expectations were rather low.Here's what I like:Real web browser! (Usable… read more

I don't know what I would do without Google and bugzilla.

June 20 2009

Eric Sandeen is my new favorite person.I'm finally watching a Fedora 11-based custom live CD boot... read more

Shiny

May 02 2009

I love this effect.I highly recommend perusing the gallery. Kara has some great stuff (although I think this is the only Fedora-related photo, and it was a happy accident). read more

ldapsync

April 30 2009

Very slowly catching up...A few years ago, I wrote a script that I called ldapsync that compares and synchronizes two LDAP servers. The options are designed to mirror the ones used by OpenLDAP's tools.Usage: ldapsync [options] Options: --simpleauth -x Use simple authentication (default) --binddn -D Secify the Distinguished Name to… read more

Help!

February 19 2009

My life has apparently hit a point where finding 5 minutes for anything is next to impossible. I seem to need to be in no less than 4 places at any given time. My contributions to Fedora are suffering as a result.I really, really hope this is a temporary(-ish) situation,… read more

I, for one, welcome our Google overlords

December 12 2008

After battling (or running away screaming from) various open-source CMS solutions, going through a few iterations of rolling my own, and putting up with a really, really, crappy "temporary" (only 4 years!) site, the store's web site is now hosted by Blogger. Discuss.PS: Oddly enough, Google Sites sucks a bit.… read more

When will the fun ever stop?

December 12 2008

I think the drama with my desktop system is almost at an end. Let's see if I can remember what all went wrong...My new hard drives (Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA drives) apparently run crazy hot. My old case kept them too close together and/or without sufficient airflow.Obviously this meant I… read more

I'm not dead (yet)

October 04 2008

So the month of September was consumed by work. If I've been less than responsive lately, blame the 12+ hours/day, 7 days/week lately. (Whee!) And to top it all off, since I've been trying to slack off a little this week (working, say, only 10 hours/day), I finally had some… read more

SELinux

August 22 2008

For the record, I've always been of the opinion that SELinux was a great idea, and it would be incredibly useful. I personally think there are just too many moving parts on the average server (much less desktop) to properly define everything processes on the system are allowed to do.Over… read more

YAPC::NA 2008 round-up

June 24 2008

On the first day of YAPC, I gave a talk titled Perl on Fedora.(Google Docs lost a little formatting in translation, but I've cleaned that up, and I think the results look substantially better than what I actually presented.)It was the first talk I've given at a conference. I thought… read more

Success!

June 21 2008

$ rpm -q rakudo parrotrakudo-0.6.3-1.fc9.x86_64parrot-0.6.3-1.fc9.x86_64$ perl6 -e '"Hello".say;'Hello$ perl6 -vThis is Rakudo Perl 6, revision 0 built on parrot 0.6.3for x86_64-linux-thread-multi.Copyright 2006-2008, The Perl Foundation. read more