Three things happened simultaneously when I stepped back from the Fedora Project Leader role back in February. (1) Paul Frields took over as the FPL. (2) Tom Callaway moved into his current role as the Fedora Engineering Manager. (3) Greg and I created the Community Architecture team, which lives outside of Red Hat's engineering and engineering-services organization (as opposed to Paul...

I read through an article the other day on developerworks about using a set of applications to monitor computers on your network and shut them down when they are not in use. It was a pretty neat article...between the clients and server. I don't need audit passable record keeping. I just need to turn off my stupid machines. 5) Oh, and it needs to be free So Lazyweb, is there anything out there like this

...Right. They are successfully building strong relationships between their students and the broader open source community, with the professors mediating brilliantly. Mozilla blazed the trail at Seneca, Fedora was next, and others will surely follow. It was a day of lively discussion, with insights coming from every perspective: students, professors, institutions, industry, and community. You can review...

So in case you haven't heard me on IRC I'm moving to Brisbane and I depart Auckland tomorrow at 9:25am sharp, expect lots of photos etc. That is all :)

...was needed I tried to give my support, but I see a lot of people knowing what to do (solving problems too). I was amazed by the number of people that took their own laptop or PC there, asking "I want Fedora on it!" and, I can assure, at the end of the morning, you could see a lot of computers with Fedora inside and a lot of new Fedorians too. During the day I saw a big number of people interested...

今天专程去东莞拜访 王翩 ("oneleaf")， http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn 的管理员，见到了他一家人(他有个非常可爱的儿子，只有三岁，机灵得什么都懂似的。) 听他谈了谈 ubuntu 站点的情况，也给 fedora 提出了不少建议。我给他 show 了下 SZLUG (深圳LUG) 上次聚会的照片。最后还从他那里顺走一件 Ubuntu 的 T 恤 :D 这一天真是收获太大了。 ubuntu 的站点情况如下： 12 万用户，95 万帖，目前处于上升期，绝对数量为 linuxsir 1/2 机器为自己组装，RMB ~14k Xeon 4 核 x2 3.0 GHz 2M cache per CPU， load 60% (avg) ~80% (busy), load ~28 (today max) 4GB ECC RAM 7200r 16M cache 300GB...

...brought a subject to the forefront that I thought was worth writing about. (I know, my brain is weird.) There seems to be a pretty steady stream of questioning and challenging FESCo (and other Fedora governing bodies) coming from a variety of people on an even wider variety of topics. I think this is great. I think questioning governing bodies should be done more often, across all forms of government...

The Linux desktop currently receives (certain) key events in two ways. Firstly, the currently active session will receive keycodes via X. Secondly, a subset of input events will be picked up by hal and...to receive an event like lid close even when you are not the active session, use dbus If you only want to receive an event when you are the active session (this is the common case), just use X events

...last night in Toronto, my apologies, but I'm sure I'll be seeing you sometime in the next few days. Looking forward to an exciting time here. On Sunday: a visit to the Hockey Hall of Fame. I ditched all of my standard Fedora t-shirts in favor of Hurricanes t-shirts this week. (Today: Rod Brind'Amour.) If I get into a fistfight with a Leafs fan ("SIX-ty SE-ven"), I'll post pics of my black eye. ;)

The Fedora Scholarship was created to recognize "one high school senior per year for contributions to the Fedora Project and free software/content in general." Benefits of the scholarship include funds for tuition assistance, as well as sponsored travel to one FUDCon each year. The 2009 application window is open until February 16. Please help to spread the word. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship...