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I first started speaking about rPath Linux and their Conary package management tool a little over a year ago.  But, I just want to get it down in writing that I think this is the future of linux packaging and indeed distribution management in general.  They took traditional package management (think rpm w/ yum or [...]

Sure, I have plenty of things to talk about, but I might as well start with the most interesting topic. It also happens to be the one topic that I can’t get out of my head. I just figured I’d warn you that this post is going to get more and more boring [...]

Seth Nickel wrote about some of the 3D-accelerated desktop work that is going on at Red Hat in his blog. He referst to one of the effects as ‘wobbly windows’. There are some videos on his site that will help to get the point across. I compiled all of the necessary packages [...]

I updated the version of Wordpress that I use to manage this site. The update process went fairly smoothly. There were a few bumps in the road because I had customized the look of my site a whole bunch, but it was fairly trivial to fix and only took around 10 minutes. [...]

My Mom got back from here business trip today. She was in Orlando for the last few days. I drove my father and brother to pick her up from the airport. On the way my day laid into my brother pretty bad. He got on his case about helping around the [...]

Yeah, so I can no longer disillusion myself. Either I’m gonna start contributing code to Gnome or I’m gonna start poking my eyes out. I’ve been living on the fringe here for a little too long. Plus, if I want to go to Guadec, which I do, then I want to actually [...]

“Do you know, know how it feels, when you go from spending nights with someone to absolutely nothing at all?” — Silent Majority - Cross Crowded Rooms
Yeah - so these last few days haven’t been very easy. Jamie and I split up Monday night. It’s permanent this time. And while it [...]

An article describing Bill Gates’ most recent visit to Asia further convinces me that Microsoft still doesn’t understand how Open Source Software works. Well, either they don’t get it or they do get it but think that everyone else hasn’t gotten it yet, which of course many of us have. There are just [...]