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Went ahead an updated to Fedora 15 this evening.
Though Gnome 3 will take some time to get used to, I think I’ll like it over time.

New version of nushus is available for download.
Couple bug fixes and a couple small features.
New cli plugin added as part of the standard distribution.

https://fedorahosted.org/nushus
Release Notes: https://fedorahosted.org/nushus/wiki/Release

Loki 0.10.1
https://fedorahosted.org/loki

Just put a tarball out on the loki downloads page: https://fedorahosted.org/released/loki/

Check out the change log here: https://fedorahosted.org/loki/wiki/ChangeLog

I’m currently working on consuming some of the yum-utils package on Fedora/RHEL to add a repo “mirror” sort of functionality to nushus. One of the files in the package is /usr/bin/repodiff which defines a class that has some functionality that would be super helpful to not have to rewrite. Problem is that you can’t do a straight import on that file because it doesn’t have a .py extension. A little googling for variants of “python import non .py” had a couple different ways to do the import. Best answer I’ve found that provides access to the class was found on a little cheat sheet. Just wanted to post a link and a copy, it has some good information for those new to python and a few little gems of “things you don’t do all the time”.

the link on google went directly to the pdf: All I ever needed to know about python scripting
Here’s my copy of it: All I ever needed to know about python scripting

Answer to my question is on page one of the pdf:

>>> from types import ModuleType
>>> my_script = ModuleType(‘my_script’)
>>> exec open(‘bin/my_script’) in my_script.__dict__
>>> my_script.main(['-t', 'bar'])

Thanks Matt Harrison! (no idea who you are, but thanks!)
Maybe I’ll email him now

In case anyone is looking to learn python, here’s the resource I learned on: Dive into Python

Happy Release Day!

Just updated my work desktop to Fedora 14 . Some how I actually remembered to make a separate partition for my home directory when I upgraded to 13. This made my 14 installation cake. Booted a live disk that landed on my desk, ran the installer, reassigned the mount points, formatted the root partition and was back up and running in no time at all. My irc logs say I was disconnected for 42 minutes total, that included a yum update and reinstalling my day to day apps.

Congratulations to the Fedora Community

Rewrote the model in loki to separate builders from slaves in attempt to support multinode support. I’ve also submitted a package request for Django-loki to fedora.

https://fedorahosted.org/loki

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Just downloaded and tried out Firefox 4 Beta.
First impression: FASTER!

I didn’t expect to see such a noticeable snappiness to it. Nice work Mozilla.

I got some feedback yesterday that suggested the Nushus Fedorahosted.org page could mistakenly depict the application as CLI only. The feedback also suggested that some screenshots would be a welcome addition to the trac site and would help remedy this mis-perception.

So here the are: some nushus screenshots

New version of nushus is available for download. Just a couple bug fixes.

https://fedorahosted.org/nushus
Release Notes: https://fedorahosted.org/nushus/wiki/Release

***UPDATE***: See the comments, turns out there is capability in F13 to do this that I was unaware of, thx marcanoonline.com!

Got a pair of MotoRokr S9-HD headphones today, pretty cool. Pairing with my iPhone was cake. Pairing with Fedora 13 had an extra couple steps. Getting the headphones paired was not the problem, huge props to Fedora 13 for making that super easy. The issue was getting the headphone to operate in an A2DP configuration.

There is not a place that I could find to select what kind of profile to use with with output device and the device was assigned a mono configuration upon initial pairing. I found one lone post related: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=223323

$ sudo yum install pavucontrol

pavucontrol shows the headphones configured for uses as a handsfree phone device (which it can do):

Fedora already had A2DP support installed, just had to select it:

Now I have stereo output on my shiny new headphones.