Why I use a laptop as my full time machine
For uncountable years now I have been using a laptop as my main machine to get my work done. I thought I would share a few reasons why this has always worked well for me. Not being tied to a desk is...
View ArticleFun with android, hardware blobs and cyanogenmod
I have had a samsung galaxy S3 phone for a while now. The very first thing I did when I got it was unlock it and upgrade the OS on it to cyanogenmod. Aside from avoiding all my carriers junk apps that...
View Articleyoga 2 pro: a year later
I mentioned that I use my laptop as my main machine, so I thought I would share a few observations on it. I got a lenovo yoga 2 pro a bit over a year ago now. There were a few hiccups at first, but...
View ArticleI’m a twit!
I’ve resisted making a twitter account for a long long time, mostly because I didn’t want another thing to follow and there wasn’t a compelling reason to create an account. Recently I read an interview...
View ArticleRSS pet peeves
I read/skim/follow a bunch of rss feeds. It’s a handy way to follow something without the overhead of joining a mailing list or the like. That said there’s some feeds that do things that are downright...
View ArticleDogs need blood too
For the last few years our dogs have been blood donors at our local animal hospital/blood bank. Yesterday was the last donation for our older hound Burner. He is going to turn 9 before his next...
View ArticleFun with linux firmware
From wikipedia: firmware: the combination of persistent memory and program code and data stored in it. Fedora ships firmware as long as it meets some critera:...
View ArticleFun with Linux firmware part 2
I did a bit more playing around with running Fedora with no firmware. Josh Boyer pointed out that the microcode_ctl package also had firmware in it. This is the ‘errata’ for cpus that fixes various...
View ArticleFedora Builders Updated
I spent some of last week and this week getting all the Fedora koji builders updated/re-installed. There’s quite a stable of them these days: 2 bkernel servers for building only kernel, grub2, pesign,...
View Articledefault? what’s default?
I’ve seen a fair number of folks recently asking questions like: “Is $foo installed by default in Fedora?” or “How much space does a default Fedora install take?” or “If I do a default install of...
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