I Fight Dragons – Project Atma (music): They were awesome at Warped Tour - I can’t wait until they go on the Projecet Atma tour. Manufacturing delays at the vinyl plant meant that the album was delayed. Still don’t have it - should be in my hands in December.

Jonathan Coulton, Greg Pak, and others – Code Monkey Save World (music and comics): Still missing the new music and The Princess Who Saved Herself. To be fair, the latter wasn’t promised until early 2015.

I know I’m late to coming across this, but I found a presentation where someone was explaining the idea behind Fedora.next where there are 3 core products: Fedora Server, Fedora Workstation, and Fedora Cloud. But I also think it works rather well if you think of Gnu/Linux distros as LEGO sets and Windows/OSX as Playmobil. (Also, I’m now at the point in my life where I realize the benefits of each system, although I still think people should have the right to explore code they run)

Booted it up in Virt-manager (which finally has bridging!) I love the new theme!

But, sadly, it logs into KDE4, not KDE5. Perhaps 5 isn’t ready for primetime?

What I find baffling, given that this is running in a VM is that it loads FASTER to the desktop than the computer it’s running on. I wish I knew which technologies I am running or which widgets are causing my KDE load to go so slowly.

As I read with my daughter I realize I had forgotten a large part of The Car in the Hat. Also watching the old Disney shorts with my daughter. Both Mickey Mouse and the Cat in the Hat were often jerks before they became mascots for their companies. Now they are goodie two shoes.

Tried to use virt-manager again (more about that in a future post), but kept getting the error:

qemu-system-x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied

Well, turns out this blog post had the answer for me:

sudo setsebool -P virt_use_execmem=on

That blog appears to be a great place for KVM virtualization info on Fedora, so I’ll be checking it out again in the future, I’m sure.

The Oatmeal schools everyone (especially Ted Cruz) in why we need Net Neutrality. Share this EVERYWHERE!

A year ago I started using Ting, a Sprint MVNO, as my cell phone provider. A month later I wrote an update as well as a review of my most used apps. Well, now it’s been a year and I’d like to talk about what it’s been like.

I started off the year with a Samsung Galaxy Victory. It is a decent and capable smart phone, but I like to use a lot of programs like Doggcatcher and SmartBooks and the phone was having issues working correctly when I had more than a few programs running. So I switched to a Nexus 5 and it’s working perfectly for me.

No Land’s Man by Aasif Mandvi

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Disclaimer: I got this as part of Good Reads First Reads

This book reminded me a lot of Tim Allen’s books ( like Don’t stand too close to a naked man). The author’s humor shines through, but humor is not its purpose. Unlike the Tim Allen book about quantum mechanics, which is about a weekend he had to himself to think, Aasif’s book is a collection of essays that forms the rough outline of an autobiography.

In order of most to least:

1. Watch Netflix
2. Watch Amazon
3. Watch Youtube
4. Listen to music via uPNP
5. Play PSN games
6. Play disc-based games

So…I doubt I’ll be getting a PS4 or any next gen system. I could get by with a Roku (or Google or Amazon or whoever streaming stick) and a laptop to stream my Steam games (if I want to play them on the big screen).

Now that I have a two year old I realize that Boo’s drawings are way too advanced for a kid who can’t even speak in full sentences.