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Fedora Folks: remember to go vote!
Fedora Elections are open for votes until 2012-06-07 23:59UTC. The Fedora Board (electing 3 seats), FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) (electing 5 seats), and FAMSCo (Fedora Ambassadors...
View ArticleA short rant about ‘security questions’
It seems like many places are now setting up or making people use ‘security questions’. These are questions (and answers) that can be used to verify your identity in the event that your password is...
View ArticleAndroid device encryption
Last night I played around with the device encryption on my nexus 7. First of all, android uses dm_crypt, just like a Fedora install would. cryptsetup however is not used, android has it’s own...
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New Sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure
Folks who access fedoraproject.org resources may have noticed in the last week that things have become a bit faster. The reason for this is simple: We have a new sponsor of Fedora Infrastructure! I’d...
View ArticleFedorahosted changes: cgit and fedorahosted-announce list
Wanted to mention to everyone 2 changes related to fedorahosted.org. First of all, we switched over to cgit from gitweb-caching. This move was a bit rockier than I wished, as I didn’t have all the...
View ArticleFedora Infrastructure announces status.fedoraproject.org
I’m happy to announce the general availability of our status.fedoraproject.org site. This site provides an easy way for Fedora contributors and users to check on the status of services provided by...
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WordPress tweaking
A long time ago (back when it existed), I installed wordpress-mu (multiuser) so I could host blogs for myself and other folks here at scrye.com. Then wordpress-mu merged back with wordpress and I kind...
View ArticleFedora’s Myriad information channels (part 1)
Fedora has many different (and increasing all the time) ways to see whats going on and follow changes. Since there are so many of them these days, I figured I do a series of short blog posts...
View ArticleFedora’s Myriad information channels (part 2)
This is part 2 of a series. See: http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2012/10/22/fedoras-myriad-information-channels-part-1/ for part 1. Package changes. Fedora the distribution is all about changes...
View ArticleFedora’s Myriad information channels (part 3)
This is part 3 of a series of posts about information Fedora produces about what going on in the project. Up this time: meetings. Various groups in Fedora meet (usually on IRC) weekly or bi-weekly and...
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Fedora’s Myriad information channels (part 4)
This is part 4 of a series about finding out about all the cool stuff going on in Fedora. This time it’s updates. Fedora updates packages all the time in a pretty heavy flow. How can you see whats...
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Fedora’s Myriad information channels (part 5)
This is part 5 in a series about finding out all the cool stuff going on in Fedora. This time, lets talk social media. First of all if you are reading this, likely you are seeing it on...
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Android backups, data syncing and Linux
Between my Girlfriend and I, we have 4 android devices here (2 HTC evo 4g phones, a nexus7 and a galaxy tab 10.1). We also have a Fedora server with a bunch of storage on it that is encrypted and...
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Fedora Infrastructure Security FAD next week…
Next week a number of Fedora Infrastructure folks will be heading out to lovely Raleigh, NC for a FAD (Fedora Activity Day) based around security. Why gather in person to work on this, instead of our...
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Reminder: lists.fedoraproject.org outage tonight
As announced recently, there will be a outage of lists.fedoraproject.org starting at 05:00UTC on the 22nd, and lasting about 12 hours (It takes a long time to sync 82GB of small mail files...
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Fedora Infrastructure Security FAD: Day -1 (travel)
Long day of travel… but I made it to Raleigh. My shuttle ride came super early, but it turns out it was good, as I was the first person picked up and barely got to my plane in time, which turned out to...
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Fedora Infrastructure Security FAD: Day 1
First day of the FAD, and a very productive one indeed. First off got things pushed out to make Fedora 18 Beta release live in the morning and everyone happily downloading. Next we all met up in the...
View ArticleFedora Infrastructure Security FAD: Day 2
Another far to early a day and we were over hacking on two factor auth again over at the Red Hat tower. (On the 13th floor this time!). We got things further deployed in staging, got the config all...
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Fedora Infrastructure Security FAD: Day 3 (travel again)
Another early day here… time for a quick breakfast with folks who are still around and then head to the airport. Long day of traveling and I seem to have picked up a cold/flu or something along the...
View ArticleFedora Project community on google+
With the roll out of communities on google plus, I made a “Fedora Project” community for any g+ users to join: Fedora Project google plus community If you use google plus, do join us. Note the topics...
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