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I’ve received a little pressie today, and to say i’m happy is an understatement. If not for the thought then for the gesture. I’m happy and will say a proper thanks to the person if it’s ok for me to mention their name……In the meantime, what did i get. Take a look

I think you’ve worked out it’s a Fedora Baseball cap

**UPDATE** yes yes ok it was Tatica, thank you :*

Now all the seriousness of the town halls and elections has finished apart from the voting which i believe starts tomorrow, and it’s friday. It’s time to kick back and have a little fun, so here is the start of another meme Take a funny photo of your self and blog it

Have a good weekend

Well it’s happened again, another family member has a virus….this time it’s my parents laptop. To be honest i don’t have a problem fixing it but it’s a pain, especially as they have lots of images/docs on it that could be potentially infected….*sigh*

It’s either going to be a case of fixing it and educating them on safe web/email usage or putting on Fedora which to be honest is my prefered method However as they are my parents they are not really that maliable to change. I’m sure hundreds of you have come across this before, how did you persuade your parents to move to a free and secure os, knowing they don’t care about cost, freedom, microsofts shadey work ethics (insert reasons to love fedora and hate MS here)

I might have a battle on my hands……let war commence lol

Installed PISG earlier, the perl irc stats generator. Thought i’d like to see what’s happening with the #fedora-ambassador channel on free node.

If you fancy a quick look then you can see the stats at http://paulmellors.homeip.net

It’s updated on the hour if i've got the cron right

A Message from Francesco :

Hi Ambassadors,

you are all invited to join the town halls organized for the next
FAmSCo elections.

The IRC channel are:

- #fedora-townhall where only candidates ad the moderator will be able to speak.
- #fedora-townhall-public where you can write your own questions

Each candidate will answer your questions and will able to share with
you their vision for the future FAmSCo and, consequently, for the
future of Ambassadors Project.

Here a list, by date, of the candidates who are going to attend town halls:

- November 28th at 1800 UTC: (first town hall)

Shakthi Kannan
Joerg Simon
David Nalley
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira

- November 30th at 1800 UTC: (second town hall)

Maria Leandro
Susmit Shannigrahi
David Nalley
Robert Scheck
Luca Foppiano

For a detailed list of the candidates and their statements see

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Election/2009Nominations.

Your presence is important: I hope to see you there!

Regards

Francesco Ugolini

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I’ve updated my laptop to Fedora 12 and to be honest it was quite painless however, when i rebooted and logged in, errrr *puke* what the hell has happened to all the icons in the gnome-panels? There is too much spacing, hmm ok not to worry i’ll just move them all, wtf, i can’t move them, is that the default? yup it is.

The panel now adds padding between applets and between icons in the notification area. The padding can be removed with the following commands

gconftool-2 –type int –set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/padding 0
gconftool-2 –type int –set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/padding 0
gconftool-2 –type int –set /apps/panel/applets/systray/prefs/padding 0

Phew back to normal