flock 2014 wrap up
Flock 2014 has been over for almost a week now and I’ve caught up a bit on sleep and had a bit of time to ponder on the conference, so I thought I would share a wrap up post with those thoughts. The...
View ArticleA week of gnome 3 from a Xfce using sysadmin
You don’t see too many of these posts anymore, I suspect because most folks (Myself included) are pretty set in their ways so if they haven’t switched to gnome3, they aren’t as likely to anymore....
View Articlegnome 3 followup
A quick followup from my previous post about using gnome shell for a week from a sysadmin view. I got a number of responses on irc and via email. Some of them providing handy hints and solutions or at...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide, the early October edition
So it’s been a while since I did a this week in rawhide for a variety of reasons: Mostly things have been running along pretty well so not really much to say. Those things that have gone wrong are...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide october 10th 2014
Hey look, a this week in rawhide thats about a week after the last one. A few happenings in rawhide land this week: With the release of the 3.17 kernel, rawhide continues it’s march on and starts...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide, the October 17th edition
Hey look, another week, another this week in rawhide. Almost like clockwork. I mentioned last week that the rawhide kernels had moved on to 3.18 git snapshots and that I wasn’t seeing any problems....
View ArticleThis week in rawhide, spooky halloween edition
This week saw a nasty little bug land in rawhide that hit most everyone: bug 1159117 This was a bug in the ordering of some units in the new systemd-217 release that caused systemd to get into loops...
View ArticleA blog post a day? Challenge accepted!
I read this morning that John Polestra is going to try and do one blog post a day for the entire month of november. I’m not sure I will be able to make it, but I think it might be a good chance for me...
View ArticleRSSyl
You may not be aware of it, but the claws-mail mail reading application also has a plugin for handling rss feeds: RSSyl. Since I use claws-mail here for my mail it’s been natural for me to also use...
View ArticleHabbits
I’ve been working from home as a sysadmin for a very long time. Over the years I have developed some Habbits. Things I try and do every day, a routine if you will. Especially with sysadmin work it’s...
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