A few weeks ago I happily went off to FOSDEM. Saturday I caught up with people, Sunday I spent most of the day in the incredibly busy Community devroom - right until I had to give up my seat for food. I really enjoyed the talks and hope the track manages …

Since Newton, Mistral has become a central component to the TripleO project, handling many of the operations in the back-end. I recently gave a short crash course on Mistral, what it is and how we use it to a few people and thought it might be useful to share some …

I've been gaming more recently, on hardware that is decent-in-some-contexts-but-definitely-not-in-this-one which has meant pathetic frame rates as low as 7~12FPS as my save files grew bigger. A kind soul took pity on me and installed a better graphics card in my machine while I wasn't looking - which of course …

In the spirit of immersion, I switched the laptop's language to Japanese, however most of the Gnome menus remained in English even after switching the System Language altogether, logging out etc. Another profile on the laptop shows the menus for Activities, etc in Japanese just fine so it wasn't a …

Last week-end I attended FOSDEM for the 7th time. It's kinda strange to say and think - if someone tells me they've been going to this or that open-source conference for 7 years I tend to assume they're hardcore and totally know what they're doing. I go to hang out with …