Hi all,
I’m looking for a second hand Tranquil T7, or similar system (linutop would do, so would any low powered, low cost, low energy system). I’ve tried ebay and Amazon but without much luck, so if anyone has something like this that they’d like to get rid of, give me a shout 
/me thinks outloud
What’s its status? I think it’s pretty flat right now, and perhaps it’s time we kickstart it.
I’m going to be at FUDCon, hopefully doing some usability testing for our websites, but maybe this is the opportunity we need to get this going properly again.
Also, completely unrelated, but is there anybody reading this who has some time to answer a few questions Re: FAS? I realise most of our infrastructure people are busy right now – keep it up, and you’ll have us back in shape in no time. Here’s another line from If … by Kipling to help inspire you
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;…
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
Just one of those times when what I really want is for everything to work exactly like I want it to.
My MacBook is a pretty good piece of hardware, and the reasons why I chose this over a Dell (keyboard, position of the headphone jack, power lead) or a Thinkpad (price) still stand, but there are a couple of things I really regret about it too. First, that I have to use ndiswrapper for my wifi. This must be one of the only wifi cards that doesn’t have an open source driver at least underdevelopment now, and although Livna does a pretty good job at keeping up with kernel updates, I was left hanging for a number of days this week 
(Note, I’m not grumbling at Livna, those guys do a great job, just at the lack of an open source driver for this broadcom card).
Second, I must be doing something wrong with my setup because it just hangs on that grey screen for the better part of a minute before grub starts loading. I don’t have Mac OS anywhere on here, and have grub installed on the MBR, don’t know how else to do this. I know there was some work in the pipe for EFI support in Fedora previously, but I never got it working even with help from the developer. Maybe that bugs been found now and I should try again.
Thirdly, weight. I didn’t realise but this is actually a pretty heavy laptop for its size (found out during my previous week’s visit to London town). It’s lighter and better put together than my old 15 inch Toshiba, but it could still be more portable. This is a pretty important element for me as I travel a reasonable amount and I like to have my computer with me when I do.
Also, I’m wholly unsatisfied by my mobile phone experience. I have a 5MP camera on mine, but it’s such poor quality optics the image is nearly always blurry, and it takes ages for the shutter to react. Wifi would also be nice, a decent keyboard, email client, and web browser too (although the latter too don’t make much difference considering the price of mobile data still).
Ah… this is all pretty irellevant though. Not to get all philosophical, but I can’t seriously complain when I consider that I have all this in the first place.
In other news, I’m home from London and should be more on the ball with Fedora related things again, like websites’ meetings, Fedora TV etc etc. Internship continues, but once again remotely. After spending a week in the ORG offices, I have even more respect for the work they do than I did when I started!
Just a quick note to say that I’m not at home at the minute, and haven’t been for the last week. This explains my slowness Re: updating the Fedora TV feed, and also my general quiteness in mailing lists and IRC.
Although I’ve had internet access all through the day time, I’ve been working hard at my internship and haven’t had time to think about Fedora things! It’s all fun and games here though, and I even got to do a little tiny bit of coding this morning putting my two weeks of python knowledge to the test :p With a little help from some friendly people in #fedora-python, I got the job done
There’s loads of other stuff I’d very much like to blog about, but I’m probably not going to get a chance to until next weekend. Until then, my best wishes to everyone who reads this!
So, as part of my internship I’m putting together a guide on how to maintain your privacy online. I’ve covered basic computer security tips, and I think that section is reasonable. However, I’m struggling to figure out what material to present, and how to present it, for sections on:
Is there anything I’m missing here? Do people have suggested starting points on these topics, or ways to tackle them?
I want to explain the ideas behind them, rather than just saying do this and this, so that users can make informed choices about the level of security, privacy and annonymity that is appropriate for them.
Had fun this morning searching the net for content for Free Me, turns out that Librvox have some freaking awesome audio books that are superbly well read And Open Source Cinema has a super cool rotoscoped video of Girl Talk performing.
