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Rawhide: notes from the trail (2015-11-16)
There has been a lot of things going on in rawhide of late, so past due for another note from the trail. The python 3.5 rebuild has landed. The vast majority of it was done in a side tag by Peter...
View ArticleOn giving
Toward the end of the year, many folks thoughts turn to giving. Either giving a monetary donation, or time and energy. I think there’s a number of reasons for that: In the US at least tax deductible...
View ArticleRawhide: Notes from the trail (2015-12-23)
A short note from the trail for those folks riding along with rawhide this winter: Openqa ( https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/ is running on daily rawhide composes, letting everyone know when the...
View ArticleRawhide year in review
Looking back over 2015, I see I only managed 7 rawhide posts. Will see if I can do better for 2016. In any case, looking back at these posts and emails I have sent to mailing lists with rawhide topics...
View ArticleA vist to a Fedora datacenter
I just got back from a visit to the largest of the datacenters used by Fedora Infrastructure, and I thought I would share a bit about why we do such visits what what we do on them. We have a number of...
View ArticleA tale of that most hated hardware: printers
Ask any sysadmin what hardware they have to deal with is the worst and I think universally they will all tell you it’s printers. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest ones are:...
View ArticleRawhide: notes from the trail, 2016-02-21 edition
Once again I have been busy and haven’t gotten a notes from the trail out recently, time to correct that! Just a bit over two weeks ago we had a mass rebuild event in rawhide. This one was for gcc6...
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A Fedora Distribution download primer
With the fresh news of a compromise in the Linux Mint distribution images, I thought I would take a few minutes to explain how Fedora handles image downloads and what you can do as an end user to make...
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encrypt all the things: blogs
So, with ssl certificates pretty easily available these days from letsencrypt.org it’s more and more worth looking at making sure you are using https instead of http for everything you can. There are...
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taskwarrior tips and notes
A year or so ago some co-workers pointed me at taskwarrior ( https://taskwarrior.org/ ) as a neat way to do todos and task tracking. At the time I tried to dive into it and it just didn’t seem to work...
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