Blog of Billy

I need to quit being so very sexy all the time. It's starting to get me in trouble.

I realized that for the last however-many time changes that I can remember, I've been at Denny's. I find this fact to be inordinately soothing.

Fedora Core 5 is out, and I'm running it. The process of updating my system was made all the more exciting by a hard drive failure about halfway through the "yum upgrade" process that left a couple hundred duplicate packages just kind of sitting there. The good news is that I was able to whip up a little perl script to find them all and destroy their elder forms. All told, without the cleanup from the hardware failure, the process took two commands, a number of which the developers can be pretty proud. FC5 is pretty nice thus far. It's made KMail a bit more stable on startup and the new libnotify version makes desktop file creation actually work like I want it to. The only downside is that for some reason amaroK's analyzer isn't wanting to take data from gStreamer. It'll work fine with the Helix engine, but Helix annoys me in other ways.

I'm not too terribly concerned. It'll be made to wear its little hat and dance its little jig, just as all things in Linux can be convinced to do.

So I told you that I was happy for you
and given the chance I'd lie again.