Yenya's World

Fedora Mcelog Maintainer Sucks

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:42:00 +0100

Welcome to the new episode of the "bashing Fedora bug handling" series, this is your grumpy Fedora user Yenya speaking. I hereby declare that the maintainer of the Fedora mcelog package sucks:

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Aisa

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:23:00 +0100

In today's mailbox:

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Image Scaling

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:57:00 +0100

It is not very often when there is a software bug which is present in nearly all different implementations which do not even have common ancestor in terms of source code.

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Playing with 6to4

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:31:00 +0100

We have finally got some time to work on native IPv6 inside a faculty network (which includes rewriting the iptables configuration to be protocol-neutral). In order to test it, I have enabled 6to4 at home.

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iPhone

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:28:00 +0100

Tell me again why should anybody bother to buy iPhone, when Apple is actively hostile to the application developers, and the device cannot do Bluetooth, does not have audio tracks in a portable format, accessible as a mass storage, and the manufacturer does not want you to customize the device?

DHCP Relay

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:05:00 +0100

With our new WiFi access points, we run multiple SSIDs, each on its own VLAN. Unfortunately, we are observing an interesting problem: even though the DHCP server can see the WiFi client requesting the address and replies back, the reply sometimes does not reach the client. It vaguely depends on the number of clients on the particular WiFi AP. Today I think I have found what causes this problem.

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Fedora 12

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:26:00 +0100

I have been using Fedora 12 on my laptop for a week now, and on my primary workstation for three days. So far I have walked through Bugzilla and checked that most of my bugs are still present in F12. But apart from that, there has not been any unpleasant surprise so far. The new KMS code and X server for Radeon cards work as expected, so I am looking forward to install F12 also to my dual-seat workstation at home. So far it is OK. Well, except ...

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Database Woes

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:14:00 +0100

Using the SQL database for keeping one's data gives an excellent environment, maintaining the data integrity, providing the transactional behaviour, providing the remote access to the data, and so on. Even the locking properties can be something which one can get used to. That is, in the ideal world.

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The GDM Fiasco

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:47:00 +0100

A short trip to the history: for GNOME 2.22 (two years ago, in the Fedora 9 timeframe) someone decided that it would be nice to completely rewrite the GNOME display manager. So far so good, but they have decided to include this partially rewritten piece of crap without many important features (a display manager without XDMCP, WTF?) to the official GNOME and thus Fedora releases.

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Framework?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:59:00 +0100

When teaching, the questions from the audience provide an important feedback to me - a notion of whether I was successful in passing the information to the audience, and what to improve or explain in a different way. There are, however, rare occasions when the question just makes me think "WTF?".

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Terminal Font

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:16:00 +0100

Today I have read an announcement of the Anonymous Pro font, which should be optimized for text terminals and for the programming environment. As this clearly matches my use case, I have decided to try it.

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XXXIV EurOpen.CZ

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:02:00 +0100

A month ago (wow, I am really slow to update this blog ...) I went to the 34th EurOpen.CZ conference. I did a presentation about Git (paper, slides).

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How Do I Install ... ?

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:41:00 +0100

The funniest page of the day is the page with installation instructions for OpenAIS. But seriously, do you have experience with those clustering suites?

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Fedora 11

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:07:00 +0100

OK, after another half a year we now have a new Fedora. I have installed it on my laptop, and found no obvious bugs. It "just works". I haven't got time to read the Release Notes yet, but so far F11 looks good. The minor issues are:

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Weird Hardware

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:02:00 +0100

Probably the most weird piece of hardware I have seen in a while is this. I should probably get one in order to do a maintainance of my COSA Linux driver on a real hardware.