Red Hat Magazine has my summary of some things that happened at Red Hat Summit and FudCON up now.

It's a bit rambly at first (sorry!), but gives you some idea of what went down and later goes into some ongoing general themes that I think are important in the FOSS Linux Systems Management space.

Func-transmit is out! (in git source, anyway)

Now you can manipulate your server minions programatically in your favorite language, even if it is not Python :)

More here on the Func Wiki.

I see the Minibosses have their entire album Brass (which I bought last year) now available here as it's currently out of stock.

If you don't already have it, do yourself a favor, burn it, and leave the "Megaman 2" guitar medley endlessly on repeat. Awesomeness.

Went to go see Fireworks in Lewisville this weekend because I was visiting the folks (damn you, Boston and NYC Harbor) and witnessed perhaps the worst Top 40 cover band ever playing there. They brought digital drums (only works if you are the drummer from Def Leppard), played them on some arena-reverb sounding preset the whole night (on country songs!), and then skipped the good parts out of the "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" because they were apparently too hard. All songs had exactly the same bass and drum line, they'd just sub out vocals. I think the lead guitar and keyboard guy were muted to show mercy. On the plus side, I don't think they played the electric slide.

How to set it up:

1. install Firefox 3
2. visit about:config in the address bar
3. search for gfx
4. set to true
5. restart Firefox

I'm not sure why this is not on by default, but it seems my photos on flickr better match Lightroom now.

This is probably a shot in the dark, but if anyone is looking to buy a Moog synthesizer, I'm selling my LP Stage Edition. It's great and everything it is meant to be, I just want something else to play with that's polyphonic and a bit, hmm, stranger. Keep in mind I occasionally blog about llamas, so you know what I mean. I should point out that the pitch wheel is somewhat loose, so I'm willing to make a bit of a deal on it. I think it's fixable and it's still totally functional. ~9 months old, otherwise in perfect shape.

It's on ebay now for the next 10 days, but I'm willing to end it early for a friend, friend of a friend, or friend of a friend of a friend. In four steps I can get to Kevin Bacon, Steven Spielberg, ET, or any NASCAR drivers. :)

Email me with an offer if you're interested and I can share more info.

You probably already know that Fedora Hosted is a great place to host a project, and that it provides free source control, a Wiki, and a bug tracker via a Trac instance. Did you know that it also can host mailing lists for your Fedora projects? And that it's all so much infinitely easier to use than the confusingness that is sourceforge?

Eat that non-open-source launchpad :)

I've moved the Cobbler list over. Join here if you're interested.

Thumbs up to the Fedora Infrastructure team for making Fedora an awesome place to get things done.

The first day of every month is one of my favorite holidays -- Internet Mailing List Subscription Reminder Day, in which we get up in the morning and celebrate all of our new reminders from mailman-owner that we are on 50 billion mailing lists that we read every day and just might have forgotten about. lists.fedorahosted.org, fedoraproject.org, linux.duke.edu, redhat.com, centos.org, etc. How thankful we are for every one of them. I look forward to the emails from mailman every month; it's like Christmas but better because it's 12 times more frequent.

(In America, Mailing List Subscription Reminder Day is best celebrated by the traditional meal of the Bojangles Chicken Biscuit Combo and playing Van Halen albums. If your answer to this is "We Don't Have Bojangles You Insensitive Clods", I'm sorry, but be glad you still have Van Halen!)

Too much software related posts lately. Here's a traffic cone with a jiggly ball.

Announced here. Project page here. Thanks to our Google Summer of Code students for putting in a lot of work on this.

This showcases significantly improved asynchronous support as well as the future of Funcweb. We should also have multi-overlord delegation for extra-large (read: global) setups implemented pretty soon. More releases short start following at greater frequency.

Check it out and if you have any ideas, please share them with the mailing list. After FudCON and Summit (and some press from LWN), it's starting to heat up nicely, which is great to see.