2 Robots

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 seems [...]

# 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 – [...]

I’ve been speaking with some small business tech places recently. These are the guys who will come in and set up your email or web server for your 2-20 person company. There seems to be a huge market gap for server infrastructure small businesses! I mean, do you guys realize that for an email and [...]

Fedora Linux (as well as Suse and other leading distributions) are getting pretty close to where they need to be for mainstream public acceptance. I think the largest remaining area which needs some significant (but not necessarily difficult) improvement is application and driver installation. Fedora Linux comes with several gigabytes of applications for free, which [...]

I am digging through some of the old stuff on my website. A few years ago, I had been working on Windows port of my “amor MD2″ program. I had taken a break from it for a bit, which turned into something a little more permanent when I lost the source code I had been [...]

Some new news on Novell / Suse. First, some one from Novell was interested in a package I RPM-ified called “NovelClient.” This is a neat little package which looks just like the Windows interface, and lets you mount Novell (aka NDS) drive shares on Linux. There are some things which could be improved (like controlling [...]