Statistics from the IRC sig meeting
Worth having a look at http://fedora.theglaserfamily.org/ircstats/fedora-weekly.html
A remote mini FAD 2
We did quite a lot of work at the first remote mini FAD. Fortunately, there's more to do! I've outlined a follow up FAD. Please have a look and make it if your schedule permits.
A remote mini FAD
A few of us got together a few days back to edit up and show some love to the fp.o wiki. We concentrated more on the Category:Distribution pages. We archived obsolete ones and marked quite a few out dated pages as {{needs love}}. Sometime in the near future …
Turning your gnome-screensaver on and off with a single click!
Recently, I found myself wondering what the easiest, laziest way of toggling the screen saver state would be.
Scenario:
You're not interacting with your system, but, you are still using it. You may be watching a film, or taking notes off a document or website. I frequently need to refer …
I did 19 review requests this past year!
fedora : using pastebins
I recently read this blog post which describes how to paste to the KDE pastebin from the terminal using pastebinit. It is worth mentioning that we have two pasting utilities in fedora at the moment, one is fpaste, the other is the nautilus-pastebin plugin which you can use for uploading …
MeMaker - an avatar creator for linux
evolution-remove-duplicates for F14
Fedora 15 will see evolution 2.92 which has the remove-duplicates in it. Since Fedora 14 will not see the 2.92 series, I've built the plugin for Fedora 14 and created a fedorapeople.org repo.
Contributing to RPMFusion
I've had "contribute to RPMFusion" on my TODO list for a while now. I've finally gotten down to it. I'm going to start packaging "frets on fire". If you have some cycles to spare, have a look at http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist for a package that interests you.
Evolution user dir change
Evolution has moved to using the XDG standard for user directories. Your evolution data is now stored in ~/.local/share/evolution instead of ~/.evolution. If you weren't already aware, it's time to update your backup confs. The change happened in 2.32 iirc.