Archive for June, 2005

Online Persona

I posted a bug report to KDE today, feeling good that I was doing my civic duty. Later, I realized that I had posted it under my real name. I’ve been using the online persona “Robot Two” for around 6 or 7 years for everything from forum postings to blogging to distributing software. It [...]

Holy Science, Batman!

Howstuffworks.com has an in-depth article which goes into the inner workings of Batman’s suit. Awesome.

Yum Configuration

# Here is a pretty good yum configuration for Fedora code.
# This is here because I keep switching machines, and I need
# a good central place to keep it.
#Let me know if anyone has improvements
#
# — This file should be saved in /etc/yum.repos.d/rtwo.repo
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever – $basearch – Base
baseurl=http://download.atrpms.net/mirrors/fedoracore/$releasever/$basearch/os/
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/os/
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/i386/os/
http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/i386/os/
#failovermethod=priority
#
#
[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever [...]

Alities

Someone left a comment on my amorMD2 page, asking if I had submitted it to KDE. It was a very timely answer, because I have been working lately on a new program called Alities (as in “personAlities”). The idea behind Alities is to completely throw away the legacy amor code, and develop a complete desktop [...]