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- November 13th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Final Freeze
As I told in an earlier post, I have ready the Christmas edition for the webcomic, which is somewhat a bad thing, since I may get new ideas in the meantime and so happened a few days ago. But is a sp…
- November 12th, 2008
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Keep Internet Explorer?
I never saw such a button on a website in the modern age (after the "e;Browser Wars") so I wonder who and why... get serious, "KEEP INTERNET EXPLORER"... someone still the worst bro…
- November 6th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Democracy and Dictature
Obviously the premise of today's cartoon is drawn from state politics and events, but that is not more than a pretext for telling a story about FOSS communities.My main issue with the joke is its diff…
- November 5th, 2008
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I learned a new word: Bokeh
While almost our entire community is celebrating Obama's victory, overshadowing the F10 Preview Release (anyone wonders why so few diggs for the announcement?) I decided to do my own offtopic post abo…
- November 4th, 2008
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Counting down to Fedora 10
Now with the F10 Preview Release in the wild, is the time to start counting down the days until final (you may noticed already the counter is running on fp.o).This time we had a new contributor, Paolo…
- October 30th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Distro Names
I think someone is preparing a release these days, so a welcome webcomic from me (you can file it in the "mine is bigger" collection)...
- October 29th, 2008
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Quotes of the day
A couple of quotes that really made my day:"some days it feels like I am more likely to get a pink pony with wings, though""it's hard to have one arm extended out to you reaching out an…
- October 24th, 2008
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Two months in advance
It happened to have my webcomic ready for a certain week only a few minutes before the publishing time, but usually I make it one or two days in advance.Not so this time: the other day in the morning…
- October 23rd, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Remix
This week I try an experiment with the wecomic: replace the (must hated by some readers) handfont with a new font, Rufscript, a font made by Hiran, from our community and already packaged for Fedora.I…
- October 22nd, 2008
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People shoot people
Earlier today, talking with Kushal in #fedora-art about photography he said a phrase which rang a bell in my head "I shoot people" and made me to try a few T-shirt designs on that theme (fol…
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Denied By Reign
Jono Bacon announced the Denied By Reign, the first Severed Fifth release under a Creative Commons license. Free metal, I had do download it and keep the torrent seeding, even if there are few downloa…
- October 20th, 2008
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Tons of photos
I got a really good scare from gThumb: take the SD card out of my camera, put it in the computer, open gThumb and import the photos, with the option to delete the card after import. When the import is…
- October 16th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: A Pony for Me
A flamerwar about why Fedora sucks and what should be done to stop that is a recurring event and usually the subject is multimedia support. Well, as the problem with multimedia is smaller and smaller…
- October 9th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Dogfooding
Its' been a while from my last webcomic containing the "U" word, I have to correct this...
- October 7th, 2008
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Man, I am sloppy that sometime I really feel embarrassed...
The HackergotchiService queue is one task I claim to keep under control, but something happened and I stopped receiving notification changed for that page from the wiki (maybe I deleted by mistake a n…
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Damn city...
This morning when I get out of the house to go at work I encountered a beautiful sunrise: dark clouds with a golden bottom edge, from the warm light coming from below, and a glowing blue background. A…
- October 2nd, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcmic: The bribe
Freeze dates are freeze dates and we are supposed to respect them, but also features are features and is natural for us to crave for them... So which crave-worthy application was released recently? GI…
- September 26th, 2008
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Inkscape howto: Drawing the webcomic titles
So the time for the so called "surprise" is now: a basic tutorial about how I do and how I should do the cartoon titles for my Fedora Weekly Webcomic (the tutorial is structured in two parts…
- September 25th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: The Way of the Ninja
The other day I said I will not do a webcomic special for Fedora's birthday and just move this week issue one day in advance and today will go with a surprise instead.Well, I changed my mind and have…
- September 24th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Which desktop?
As today is party day for Fedora's 5 years birthday, I had a dilemma: do a special edition of the webcomic or just move one time the publishing day from Thursday to Wednesday? I went with the later op…
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Happy birthday Fedora!
If you want to celebrate 5 years of Fedora, here are a few buttons of various size which you can use on your blogs: Note: if you want the source for a customized (translated?) version, just change t…
- September 22nd, 2008
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The swan song of steampunk
No, I am not into some lame poetry, I just try to not fight losing battles...The other day I thought that "Bucharest Days" (this miserable city we all love to hate has 549 years of attested history) i…
- September 18th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: EULA
All is well that ends well, and it seems now we have a happy ending, but the situation was (IMO) quite ridiculous.
- September 11th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Large RPM Collider
The [self imposed] curse of my webcomic is its regularity: the same day of the week at the same hour (as much as I can). In consequence, some topics may be delayed a bit, so I have a choice: go with a…
- September 10th, 2008
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Prater, Vienna
Going back from the FUDCon, we (Adrian and me) had about one and a half hour to spend in Vienna and being in a boyish state of mind, what were we supposed to do? Stalk the passers? No, we found someth…
- September 9th, 2008
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Day 3 photos
Yesterday was travelling day for me (expect some photos from Prater, Vienna), so the bulk of photos from FUDCon Day 3 are a bit late...First I want to thank Max, I was in doubt and he ultimately convi…
- September 7th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: FUDCon special - Size matters
As part of the hackfest at FUDCon, a "special edition" of the webcomic (there are tons of people with tons of geeky cameras):
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Day 2 photos
Speaking aboutphotos, I should start by thanking Gianluca for the gift (a flickr account upgrade so I can upload more photos). Thanks! The most awesome thing for me yesterday was the chance to meet Ma…
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Lesson learned about Tux
While my photos from Day 2 are uploading, here is a lesson I learnet at FUDCon in Brno: Tux is a real babe magnet and I have photos to prove it:To be honest, the girls in those photos are somewhat hal…
- September 6th, 2008
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Lot of photos from Day 1
In the end I managed to track and stop the funny little guy who took over my camera the other day, maybe a bit later, so he had plenty of time for a lot of nasty photos and beers until midnight, but t…
- September 5th, 2008
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Wild photographer on the loose at FUDCon
This little guy is on the loose, he stole my camera and is taking nasty photos all around at FUDCon, I am left onlu with my phone... But I'll catch him!
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Virtual T-shirt
I received a lot of undeserved praises for some minor modification applied to Mo's design made for the Boston FUDCon, so this virtual T-shirt is for her:Expect a large number of photos from day one bu…
- September 4th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: No punchline
Thanks to the marvels of technology, this strip is partly true: at the moment it goes online I should be in a bus travelling to Brno, the blog engine is supposed to take care of scheduled publishing.N…
- September 3rd, 2008
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For the unfortunates...
Following a request on #fedora-art I did this blog button (no worry, I am still going), so use it if you feel like:
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Lansarea licentelor Creative Commons in Romania
Folosesc licentele Creative Commons de ani de zile, am si scris in trecut despre ele, iata ca acum avem o veste buna: acum sint disponibile si in limba romana (pentru a avea valabilitate in Romania o…
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CreativeCommons Romanian launch
Yesterday, 2 September 2008, the Creative Commons licenses were launched in Romania. I was invited and used the opportunity to take some photos.The main talk was delivered by Bogdan Manolea, the main…
- September 2nd, 2008
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Fedora 10 themes Round 2
The second round in the process of creating a visual theme for Fedora 10 ended yesterday, those are the proposals meeting the requirement and which will pass into the third (last) round (listed in chr…
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Going to FUDCon
The First Meet-up of the Art TeamAs both Martin and me will be present, we probably will pompously claim the first meet-up of the Fedora Art Team (Mo suggested the title): probably the first time when…
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FLOSSCamp 2008
FLOSSCamp 2008 s-a incheiat, iata citeva poze: Mult mai multe sint disponibile in galeria foto a proiectului romanesc Fedora.
- September 1st, 2008
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FLOSSCamp
As planned, I attended the Romanian FLOSSCamp, a nice offline summer escape in the mountains.The weather was not our best ally, it was rainy and somewhat cold for this time of the year: But we got a g…
- August 28th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Advertising
To be honest, initially I wanted another to cover another subject, something with a positive turn after the intrusion (as I think the infrastructure guys deserve a lot of praises) but I wasn't able to…
- August 26th, 2008
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De-virusing
Advice: when shoving down the throat of your Linux using co-worker/sysadmin your virus-laden Windows home computer expect him not to care and nuke from the orbit anything looking remotely suspect in t…
- August 21st, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Stats and samples
A few days ago when the number of pre-registration for the Brno FUDCon reached 100 people (now there are a very few more), it was very inviting to make statistics based on it, even if the sample is no…
- August 18th, 2008
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Woeees
After a couple of days with it, I think my main woe with the Eee and Fedora (bigger than the wireless) is Inkscape on small screens and this is a problem I knew before the purchase (testing Inkscape o…
- August 15th, 2008
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Eee...
Here is my brand new Eee PC 1000h running a [pretty much] standard Fedora 10 Alpha install (only the graphics are changed: Echo icons and a Gears wallpaper): After a quick testing of F9 and F10 Alpha…
- August 14th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Wallpapers
In the last week I talked a lot about wallpapers so is quite obvious that today's webcomic is about wallpapers, I am so predictable...
- August 13th, 2008
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Build and they will come - the wallpaper gallery
It may be a bit early for that, but our Fedora Extras Wallpaper Gallery is starting to look like a success story. And not necessarily because in a few days we gathered an important number of images or…
- August 11th, 2008
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Worshipping Satan
This story (link in Romanian) is so absurd that I had to read it (and the following replies) a couple of times and I am still not 100% sure it not a joke.For those who can't read Romanian (which is th…
- August 8th, 2008
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A wallpaper gallery
Do you felt a need for more wallpapers (colorful, vivid, photographic) for your Fedora desktop? Or maybe you wanted to contribute yourself a self made beautiful photo which is suitable as a wallpaper…
- August 7th, 2008
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Fedora Weekly Webcomic: Summer time
It looks like all my webcomic's characters are geeky enough so no one has vacation dreams about sitting on a beach with some fancy drink (with umbrella!) in one hand and surrounded by bikinis....Ops!…
