Defensive Belligerence

Quick reminder for folks that we’re having a Central Ohio Fedora 9 Release party tomorrow (Thursday) night at 7pm. For more details, click here.

Following the rest of shell history meme’s on Planet Fedora:

[bpepple@nixon Desktop]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
144 make
105 ps
95 su
92 kill
87 svn
77 exit
74 cd
56 ls
51 gst-inspect
29 rpm

Hmm, little different results than I would have expected, but makes sense since I was hacking on a nautilus extension that uses gstreamer over the weekend.

Noticed this while reading this week’s Fedora Board meeting recap:

Majority board vote in favor of patching out all other ”for sale” non-free plugins leaving the freely available mp3 codec

Geez, it’s no wonder Fedora gets a rep for not being user-friendly.

Quick reminder for folks that we’re having a Central Ohio Fedora 8 Release party tomorrow (Thursday) night at 7pm. For more details, click here

What

This will be a social event to meet other Fedora users and people curious about Fedora from the state of Ohio, and check out the cool features of the new Fedora 8 release (due out on November 8, 2007). It will also serve as an opportunity for people to find out what Fedora and free software in general is all about and ask questions of people already involved in the community.

When

Thursday, November 15th 2007, 7:00 PM.

Where

Community Room at the Bexley Cup O’ Joe

Organizers

BrianPepple, JeffreyTadlock, and Joe Connelly.

The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election is over, and the members for the 2007/2008 FESCo are (in alphabetical order):

1. Christopher Aillon
2. Josh Boyer
3. Tom Callaway
4. Kevin Fenzi
5. Dennis Gilmore
6. Christian Iseli
7. Jeremy Katz
8. Jesse Keating
9. Bill Nottingham
10. Brian Pepple
11. Jason Tibbitts
12. Warren Togami
13. David Woodhouse

The first meeting for the new FESCo will be July 26, at 17:00 UTC in the #fedora-meeting IRC channel.

Voting is now open for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee elections. All 13 seats are up for election. The candidates are (in alphabetical order):

1. Christopher Aillon
2. James Bowes
3. Josh Boyer
4. Tom Callaway
5. Kevin Fenzi
6. Dennis Gilmore
7. Christian Iseli
8. Jeremy Katz
9. Jesse Keating
10. Bill Nottingham
11. Brian Pepple
12. John Poelstra
13. Jason Tibbitts
14. Warren Togami
15. David Woodhouse

For details and some future plans of these fine people see:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Nominations

Anyone who has signed the Fedora CLA, and has an addition account (like ambassadors, art, cvs*, fedorabugs, l10n-commits, web, etc.) in the Fedora Account System is eligible to vote.

Voting will end at July 22 23:59:59 UTC.

To vote, please go to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/

If you have any questions or problems with voting, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Just heading out the door on my way to the airport. Hope to see everyone at FUDCon!

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Earlier this week I received my iAudio U2 that I ordered off of Amazon.com. I’ve been looking for a while for a portable music player that played nicely with Linux, and also handled Ogg Vorbis files, since most of my music collection is in this format. The U2 meets both of these criteria, and also is real small to boot. Sweet. The only downside I’ve experienced so far with it is a limitation of 50 folders to sort music. This isn’t that big of an issue for me since I went with the 1 GB model.

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Boy, been awhile since I posted anything here.

The Evens
Saw The Evens on Monday night at the Chop Chop Gallery. It was a pretty cool show, and a lot more intimate setting than the last time I saw Ian play. I’m guessing there were probably 70 or so people max.

For those interested, it looks like someone posted a couple of videos from the show to YouTube:

• Evens - Mt. Pleasant
• Evens - You Won’t Feel A Thing

Cryptonomicon
Finally got around to finishing Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It was as good as everyone has said it was, but I have a hell of a time actually sitting down and reading a fictional book anymore. It must have taken me over two months to get through it.

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