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Fedora Core 2
So Fedora Core 2 is officially out. I actually snagged it a few days early thanks to this Slashdot post that included this friendly torrent. Spent a while getting it up and running under VMware and it looked pretty good. Just when I starting to think about updating my RH9 box, the computer up and imploded on me. I’m not sure what happened, but suddenly X refused to start and I couldn’t even get it to give me access to a text console so that I could back everything up and reinstall.
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Fedora Core 2: Tettnang
So I was kinda curious what the story was behind the name for FC2 (Tettnang). Honestly, I was a little curious about FC1 (Yarrow), but never looked into it. Historically, Redhat has largely stuck with a naming convention where each release name relates to the immediate predecessor in some way, but not that predecessor’s predecessor (grandparent?). Anyway, this page at the Fedora site seems to cover it to some extent, and here’s a little more discussion on what some of those release names mean (and how they relate) (even more here).
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Job Predictor
Here’s a silly little webpage I Richy clued me into. It supposedly predicts your ideal career based on your name (since it’s probably based on some sort of hash function or something, inclusion of middle and/or last name may improve your career path). For example: Derek, Your ideal jobs is a Kids TV Presenter Derek Gottlieb, Your ideal job is a Bearded Lady in the circus. Derek Brendan Gottlieb, Your ideal job is a Office numpty.
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A4 paper
So I finally have the remotest clue what the deal is with A4 paper (and as a result why the rest of the world feels the need to use it and screw up my print jobs, and make life difficult in LaTeX sometimes). Basically, there’s a slashdot post on it that points to this page that discusses some of the ideas behind why A4 is the size it is. Apparently all metric paper has a height-to-width ratio of the square root of 2.
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