daMaestro
daMaestro's Blog
Jul 18, 2008
Openmoko Freerunner
I got my Freerunner today!
(note: as of 7/17/08 the current production run is sold out; the next batch will be available 7/25/08)
Jun 14, 2008
FUDCon F10
FUDCon approaches and I work to get everything I need ready. I look forward to seeing everyone again, and meeting all the new contributors!
As FUDCon F10 approaches, I find myself divided between wanting to go as a developer and presenting a barcamp item for the projects I have going and then just going as a Fedora user. I don't think I would ever be able to go to a FUDCon/Redhat Summit as just a user anymore and thus I've been working on sorting out what it is I would like to submit as a barcamp item. As I did last FUDCon, I'm leaning more towards going the route of presenting along side Jeroen again and then just being available to discuss any of my projects ad-hoc rather then a formal barcamp item. However, I think I need more feedback from the community regarding pyJigdo and where I should focus my limited number of Fedora development hours. If anyone is interested in pyJigdo and making it work right, please let me know. I don't want to waste a barcamp session, my time or anyone elses. A pyJigdo session will likely be very technical and might be better suited for a hackfest session over a presentation slot. Anywho, let us (Fedora Unity) know. I'll need a little time to do up some slides and other "best practices" for presenting otherwise I end up just putting code up on the projector and giving an overview of what it does and why and then asking for feedback on the concepts.
FUDCon F10 is going to be one of the best FUDcons so far. It looks like we are going to have a large precense of Fedora community members. I'm also looking forward to making myself available to Redhat Summit attendees that show up for the FOSS track. If you are still undecided about going, go. FUDCon is an amazing way to meet the people you interact with every day on mailing lists, irc and otherwise (such as SCM commits.) It's also where The Next Great Thing(tm) is discussed, designed and developed. Maybe someone with more time then myself will be able to count LOC changed during the duration of FUDCon and the Redhat Summit. It would be an interesting metric.
Apr 09, 2008
Shell History Meme
There seems to be an interesting meme going on via the Fedora Planet feed. I've decided to join in. It's interesting to see what everyone has been working on, including myself.
What is a 'meme'?
Well, I had to look it up for myself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MemeMy Results:
[jon@damaestro ~]$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -nr|head
221 ./pyjigdo.py
126 vi
98 git
91 dig
60 ll
45 cd
41 rpmbuild
36 mock
31 rm
23 rpm
[jon@damaestrojr ~]$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -nr|head
118 ll
114 vi
84 ssh
83 ./transit-schedule-scrape.py
77 cd
70 git
68 dig
67 exit
38 sudo
29 rm
Feb 25, 2008
Fedora Sites Search - Online
The Fedora Sites Search portal is finally back online. We hope to get feedback from Fedora Community members on how to make it better and much more useful.
After a long time of being offline...
We here at Fedora Unity have finally found the time to revive the long lost Fedora Sites Search portal. We need feedback and feature requests to make the system worth-while and functional. The basic concept is back online and will be improving more and more over time.
Read about this system here.I want to try it!
Give it a try: http://searchfedora.org/
Jan 31, 2008
Oh Audacious, How I love Thee
I've been using xmms to stream media for some time now and finally got fed up with aacPlus not working. All of you xmms fans/users out there, check out audacious.
Why change what works?
Well, that were my exact thoughts too. I've used xmms for all my streaming needs since I found out about it when I started using Linux. It works, why change? I will tell you, the audacious interface blows the xmms interface away and welcomes the xmms (bmp) code base to the 21st century.
What about non-free support?
There are many plugins and Livna has you covered.
Available Packages:
audacious
audacious-libs
audacious-plugins
audacious-devel
audacious-docklet
audacious-plugin-fc
audacious-plugins-amidi
audacious-plugins-arts
audacious-plugins-esd
audacious-plugins-jack
audacious-plugins-metronome
audacious-plugins-nonfree-aac
audacious-plugins-nonfree-alac
audacious-plugins-nonfree-lame
audacious-plugins-nonfree-mms
audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3
audacious-plugins-nonfree-tta
audacious-plugins-nonfree-wma
audacious-plugins-pulseaudio
audacious-plugins-vortex
audacious-plugins-wavpack
yum install audacious
Home Page: http://audacious-media-player.org
Jan 30, 2008
Finally, We Have Blogging
It's been a long time waiting but finally Fedora Unity has blogging. We extend a welcome to anyone with a Fedora Unity account to request a blog!
Fedora Unity has been waiting for Quills to make it to a somewhat stable point and that point is now. I've been waiting for Quills to work on Plone 3 since the release of Plone 3. All in all, Quills is impressing me and was worth the wait. We look forward to enabling the Fedora Community to easily share their experiences. Look for more features soon!
On another note...
I am sooo glad I can finally close a long standing bug. It has annoyed me for some time... and *trust me* ... Bob made sure this task got done ; - )

