codergeek42

With the recent clamour over Nautilus' default spatial-paradigm navigation mode as the default in Fedora, I decided to take a page from the book of David Nielsen and force myself to use spatial mode for a few solid days (at least). Having been a "Browser" user mostly of habit since I first started with Linux in 2003, I want to know first-hand why this decision is making so many people upset.

I'll report back soon with my findings! :)

I just spent slightly over 200 USD in the online purchases of various gifts for family and friends, and in the process consumed nearly the entirety of my coffee fund for the next couple of months. Aww, well - I'm going to have a nice stash of Christmas presents for people this year, along with some home-made stuff (since I really didn't do anything last year in terms of gift-giving); so it will be well worth it. :)

So, earlier today I was catching up on various things online, and Epiphany's download window just halted at 24% completion. "Nothing to worry about," I thought. "Just a laggy server."

Well, I decided to do something that I had not done in nearly a full week: Be productive. (That's right. On my computer. Productivity. Really? YES!)

Anyway, I've been finding scanmem to prove quite useful for debugging some issues I've been having with school projects [and cheating a bit at Net Hack]. After a bit of searching, I discovered that scanmem was already packaged for Fedora (thanks, Jakub Hrozek!), so that means less work for me! However, I'm of the opinion that making things easy to find for end-users is a great benefit, and comps makes this outstandingly simple combined with GUI packager frontends such as Pirut/Pup and (hopefully in F9+) PackageKit.

Yet, when I tried to update it earlier I received the following message from CVS:

cvs update: Updating comps
P comps/comps-f8.xml.in
cvs [update aborted]: cannot write .new.comps-f8.: No space left on device

(Oops. So now I knew why Ephy never finished the downloads, either…)

I just spent the past hour or so cleaning up my home directory: removing nearly 7 gigs (WTF) of stagnant build files ($HOME/rpmbuild/BUILD), a few more gigs of stuff in $HOME/Downloads, old Fedora ISOs that I still had, archived a bunch of music I no longer frequently listen to, and re-organized most of my photos. My folders are now all organized and stuff! And as a plus, I've reclaimed nearly 16 gigs. Excellent!