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Thu, 31 Dec 2015

Fedora upgrades DO happen overnight -- with 7000+ tasks between upgrades and cleanup, I just let it run. F23 now lives on my laptop

Wed, 30 Dec 2015

Upgrading #Fedora 22 to 23 -- 3654 packages for me

Easy instructions for Fedora 22 to 23 upgrade from Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-from-fedora-22-to-fedora-23/ I needed --allowerasing

Starting the #Fedora 22 to 23 upgrade -- can DNF really do it?

Tue, 29 Dec 2015

You know what I'm using like crazy in Xfce? Clipman http://www.mylinuxrig.com/post/1441513640/clipman-helps-remember-what-you-cut

http://dlvr.it is one of those services that keeps plugging along. It runs my @twitter feed out of this blog, and my company uses it, too

Mon, 28 Dec 2015

.@realdonaldtrump and @passthejoe (that's me) joined @twitter about the same time - 2009. Sure, he has more followers, but I just crossed 1K

Unearthed my circa-1980 Next Whole Earth Catalog, the web before the Web http://www.amazon.com/The-Next-Whole-Earth-Catalog/dp/0394707761

Sun, 27 Dec 2015

Ornette Coleman remembered by Neneh Cherry aka @misscherrylala http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/27/ornette-coleman-remembered-by-neneh-cherry-jazz-saxophonist

Sat, 26 Dec 2015

JDK 1.8 for OpenBSD http://openports.se/devel/jdk/1.8

OpenBSD 5.8 looks very good http://www.openbsd.org/58.html Even offers JDK, which I don't remember from 4.4 days

Great introduction to @OpenBSD at http://www.openbsdjumpstart.org

Tue, 22 Dec 2015

Was prepared to hate Netbeans, but I kind of like it

Mon, 21 Dec 2015

Go's net/http not fast enough? Fast HTTP is up to 10 times faster https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp #golang

Fri, 18 Dec 2015

At this point, I've probably been running Fedora a lot longer than I ever ran Debian.

I am following too many people on Twitter. That is all.

Confession: I love reading Penelope Trunk. Her subject (life and work) is compelling, as is what I think is her brutal honesty http://blog.penelopetrunk.com

Researchers say iPod Touch is the most secure mobile device due to lack of SIM card http://www.zdnet.com/article/want-a-secure-privacy-smartphone-the-experts-suggest iPhone is second-best

7 reasons to develop your next web app with @meteorjs http://www.sitepoint.com/7-reasons-develop-next-web-app-meteor from @sitepointdotcom

Thu, 17 Dec 2015

Mumble returns to @Fedora https://fedoramagazine.org/mumble-returns-fedora

Sat, 05 Dec 2015

Perl is Back and Ready to Roll with the Big Data Crowd http://thenewstack.io/perl-back-ready-roll-big-data/

Fri, 04 Dec 2015

Spam spam spam spam http://www.zdnet.com/article/spam-whats-yours-is-mine-book-reviews-the-loss-of-internet-innocence/

Wed, 02 Dec 2015

@pragdave on @elixirfountain https://soundcloud.com/elixirfountain/elixir-fountain-2015-09-25-dave-thomas

Saša Jurić: Why #Elixir http://theerlangelist.com/article/why_elixir

Clark Kampfe: #Elixir is not #Ruby http://zeroclarkthirty.com/2015-11-01-elixir-is-not-ruby.html

Jerel Unruh: Why I'm excited about #Elixir and #Phoenix http://jerel.co/blog/2015/11/why-im-excited-about-elixir-and-phoenix

#Elixir School http://elixirschool.com/

Tue, 01 Dec 2015

Aaron Lebo: The UNIX philosophy and Elixir as an alternative to Go http://lebo.io/2015/06/22/the-unix-philosophy-and-elixir-as-an-alternative-to-go.html #elixir #golang