I'll be speaking at CPOSC this October in Harrisburg, PA. I will being giving a talk about Mozdev's architecture and history; about how it has grown over time from an all-volunteer effort to my current employment with Mozdev and where Mozdev is going. I plan to go over some …
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sshing to multiple ports at the same host without warnings
I ran into an article that addresses a long-standing problem I've had with OpenSSH's known_hosts file; it doesn't store the port for a host so you can't ssh to different ports behind a router without getting warnings about fingerprint mismatches. The article descries how to access multiple machines at the …
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For awhile now I've noticed that things in my home dir aren't setup optimally for my work flow. I've been trying to run with SELinux enabled and I run into development problems when I try to run web applications out of my home directory. Various parts of my home directory …
read moreProgram your Logitech Harmony remote in linux
Concordance has finally made it's way into Fedora!
I've been maintaining packages separately from Fedora for awhile now; the review has been there since October 2007! Unfortunately there were some legal concerns about the trademark over the name of the project ("harmony") originally, then when 0.20 was finally released … read moreReflecting on FUDCon
FUDCon 2008 this weekend
Heading down with Todd Zullinger today to Raleigh, NC to hit up FUDCon.
I'm pretty excited about this trip; I've been a user of Red Hat products for about 9 years now, and while I've done some packaging for several years I've only recently become a Fedora contributor and have … read moreMercurial repo for RPM package development
I've setup a Mercurial/Hg repo for my packages.
I was going to try out git, but decided Mercurial would be my first venture into DVCSes. The wiki at Mercurial's website was pretty helpful in getting a central web repository up and running; create a single script and point it … read moreAll your boxes are upgraded to F8
I finally have all my boxes upgraded to F8 (via yum; viva la Live Upgrage SIG!). It really wasn't as bad as I anticipated, and in fact, probably much better than my anaconda-based upgrade for F7 since I had all my third-party repos enabled for the upgrade and didn't have …
read moreLogitech Harmony software for Linux
I found a new project that looks very promising for loading config for my Logitech Harmony 880 remote. Naturally, I built Fedora 7 i386 packages for it. I'd really like to get more codes programmed on the remote for controlling my MythTV box, and with having software for Linux so …
read moreSome Clarifications and Concessions
My recent blog post about direction and online updates sparked some interest - and some interesting discussion. Through that discussion, I wanted to post some clarifications and concessions about the original article.
Concession: I wasn't correct about my statement that Fedora has a "lack of direction" - it's direction is exactly that … read moreWhat Fedora needs is some direction - and online upgrades
Some of the biggest problems I see in Fedora these days are the following:
1. Lack of directionread more</p> Since Fedora is a distribution for developers by developers in order to test out new technology, the main tree ends up being a hodge-podge of whatever each individual maintainer feels like …FC6 Xen now working
For awhile now my file server has been running Fedora Core 6. I never have a good time to upgrade it to Fedora 7 because I'm always using it.
In the beginning I had envisioned running multiple VMs on it for compiling packages; it's an x86_64 box, so I would …
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According to bug 241403 my package for QGIS has been accepted into Fedora, and pending getting a sponsor I should be getting commit access soon! I've also submitted bug 246460 to get qtpfsgui into Fedora as well.
If this works out well, I'll probably begin working on getting EPEL commit … read more