http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/$blog_name/ A description to be completed later http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2015/10/byu_linux_club_opening_social.html <p>Last night I attended the opening social for <a href="http://linuxclub.byu.edu/">BYU Linux Club</a>, a new on-campus club at Brigham Young University in Provo. I was invited to the event by Tyler Johnson, the club's president after he came to a <a href="http://www.plug.org/">Provo Linux User Group</a> meeting a couple months ago. I told Tyler I'd record video of the opening social.</p> <p>At the opening social, Tyle</p> Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:19:57 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2015/5/an_rms_recollection.html <p><strong>Written by Chadd VanZanten about an incident in 1999</strong></p> <p>Concerning "The RMS Run." I've forgotten a lot about that night. On purpose. I'll tell you what I remember. It will probably contain hyperbole and inaccuracies. I take that back. Not probably. Certainly. </p> <p>What I remember best is that RMS was simply unpleasant, supercilious, judgmental and, worst of all, oblivious to his own behavior. B</p> Wed, 6 May 2015 04:17:34 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2013/10/extending_software_collections.html <p>Recent Red Hat Developer Blog articles have explained what Software Collections are, what they're good for, and how you can leverage them to easily enhance your development environment leveraging the latest and greatest versions of your favorite programming languages and relational database backends. </p> <p>But the software collection packages available for each language comprise only a subset o</p> Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:20:59 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2013/3/compensating_for_cpanspec.html <p>The <code>cpanspec</code> utility has been an extremely valuable tool for me over the years, especially over the last few months as I've been working on <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html">Software Collections</a> for newer versions of Perl in EL5 and EL6. </p> <p>However, <code>cpanspec</code> has some drawbacks. Here's a list of some issues off th</p> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:01:23 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2013/3/my_blog_under_attack_1.html <p>I've been having some issues with my blog site lately. There has been an ongoing distributed attack from multiple IP addresses on the site. I haven't confirmed this for sure, but it seems to be targeting the MovableType platform I'm running, maybe by overwhelming the comment system. </p> <p>I made the move from a homegrown blogging platform to MovableType several years ago because I felt MT was doing so</p> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:51:17 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2013/3/my_blog_under_attack.html <p>I've been having some issues with my blog site lately. There has been an ongoing distributed attack from multiple IP addresses on the site. I haven't confirmed this for sure, but it seems to be targeting the MovableType platform I'm running, maybe by overwhelming the comment system. </p> <p>I made the move from a homegrown blogging platform to MovableType several years ago because I felt MT was doing so</p> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:50:17 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2012/6/enable_kmailkontact_as_mailto_handler_in_firefox_fedora_17.html To set up kmail or kontact to handle mailto: links from Firefox in Fedora 17, follow these directions:<br /> <ul> <li>Go to <strong>Edit</strong> -&gt; <strong>Preferences</strong> in Firefox</li> <li>Choose the <strong>Applications</strong> tab</li> <li>Type <strong>mailto</strong> in the search entry field to select the specific rule</li> <li>Change the target to <strong>Use other...</strong></li> <li>Enter <strong>/usr/libexec/kde4/kmailservice</strong> as the path to the program to use</li> </ul> Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:29:30 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2012/6/using_akonadi_to_manage_google_calendars_with_kdes_kontact_or_korganizer.html <p>KDE users have had a powerful calendar utility at their disposal for quite a few years with <a href="KOrganizer">http://userbase.kde.org/KOrganizer</a> which is a component of the <a href="Kontact%20suite">http://userbase.kde.org/Kontact</a>. </p> <p>KOrganizer was built for a long time with the ability to use iCal and vCal data. In recent years, however, <a href="GoogleCalendar">http://www.go Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:47:52 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2012/5/catalysts_begin_special_action_method.html <p>The [http://www.catalystframework.org/](Catalyst Framework) for Perl web development has some powerful special actions that frequently come in very handy when you're building an application, especially one that is heirarchical in nature as most are.</p> <p>An application I am working on right now provides a list of hash references to the template view for presenting a dynamic crumb trail on the page. </p> Sat, 26 May 2012 19:23:52 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2012/5/the_price_of_being_on_the_bleeding_edge.html <p>A couple of weeks ago was the <a href="http://www.utos.org/">2012 Utah Open Source Conference</a> and I was there as a core team member recording video of various sessions. After the conference was over, I began editing and uploading video of sessions to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/FozzilinyMoo">my YouTube channel</a>. </p> <p>This was going quite well and surprisingly efficiently... until I upgraded [kdenlive](http://ww</p> Tue, 22 May 2012 11:52:10 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2012/5/a_new_kind_of_blogging.html <p>Many blog posts begin with "It's been a long time since I last blogged." While that's certainly true in my case, I've recently come upon some new technology that may increase the frequency of my blog posts: tablet computers.</p> <p>I recently picked up a used HP Touchpad from a seller on EBay. The tablet was already loaded with Android 2.3.7 alongside the stock WebOS (which is, of course, kind of a dead</p> Mon, 21 May 2012 19:05:36 -0600 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2011/11/automounting_samba_shares_as_a_user_with_fedora_16.html <p>It's been a while since I've blogged anything, let alone anything technical. So, here goes.</p> <p>I've been making the rounds in our house, upgrading all the desktops to <a href="http://www.fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 16</a>. For the most part, this has been fairly painless. One thing I've noticed, however, is that Fedora 16 changes the default UIDs for new users. In the past, UIDs started at 500. Now they start a</p> Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:47:28 -0700 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2011/1/ps_-_it_does_one_thing_and_it_does_it_many_different_ways.html <p>The <code>ps</code> command on Linux/Unix systems (and, yes, that includes Mac OS X) is a command-line utility for displaying information about currently running processes.</p> <p>Unix has had the <code>ps</code> command for decades, but because Unix has a varied past with contributions from different parties, there are a couple of different <em>camps</em> on <code>ps</code>. It basically boils down to the System V camp and the BSD camp. Fort</p> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:48:51 -0700 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2010/11/some_cool_perl_things.html <p>One of the many advantages of having a software developer job where you're working in a distributed, collaborative development environment is that you get to look at other people's code. What a great way to see examples of coding strategies you've never used before.</p> <p>For example, today I saw where someone had used the <code>part</code> subroutine provided by [List::MoreUtils](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?L</p> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:36:43 -0700 http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2010/9/samsung_epic_4g_sprint_smartphone_-_my_thoughts.html <p>Size The Epic 4G is bigger and more rectangular than either the Palm Pre or the Palm Centro I had before. </p> <p>Screen </p> <p>UI </p> <p>Battery life The Epic 4G&#39;s battery life is significantly better than the Palm Pre. That being said, there are things to watch out for that will quickly suck the life out of the Epic 4G battery:</p> <ul> <li>Turning on the 4G radio</li> <li>Running the wireless hotspot app</li> </ul> <p>In cases when you</p> Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:42:03 -0600