Introduction
by Roger Baran, Owner
Hello everyone!
I would like to introduce myself.
My name is Roger Baran. I started working with computers while
stationed aboard the USS Tattnall (DDG-19) in 1980.
I had a friend that was a DS (Data Systems Specialist) who worked in the
ships computer room. He introduced me to DBase 3 and my life was changed
forever. The first computer, I remember vividly, that I worked with was
a Kaypro luggable. It had two floppy disks and a 6" monochrome crt and
the keyboard attached to the front over the monitor. That thing must
have weighed in at about 20 pounds! Armed with my four DBase 3 floppies
(and another two or three for Wordstar) I was on top of the world.
From there I went on to learn how to program the Sinclair and a TRS-80!
In January of 1984 I bought my first PC - a generic 'IBM' desktop with
two floppy drives, 64K of RAM and a 9" monochrome monitor. Those were
the days! lol
Tiring of the Navy, I crossed over to the US Coast Guard in 1990 and
went on to become a Radarman Chief Petty Officer (E7).
Over the years I have continued to work in the computer world either
full or part time. My history includes building desktops from scratch at
NCR of Jacksonville, Fl, to running a computer store for the same
company, to working at Microsoft, to now running my own consulting
practice here in San Antonio, TX.
I first got involved with Linux sometime around 2009. Since then, I have
installed, re-installed, and attempted to fix -- or get working --
literally dozens of different distro's. I always seem to spend more time
working on them than using them!
Recently, I have been drawn into the world of Penetration Testing and
have expended a lot of time and energy with Kali Linux and Network
Security Toolkit (based on Fedora 20). Working with NST 20 is what
brought me to the Fedora forums in search of answers for dealing with
Microsoft's blatant disregard for co-existence with other operating
systems.
Now, I will be working with randomuser to hopefully bring some of my own
head banging experience to bear on helping others avoid the same.
I have been writing technical articles and classroom instruction
materials, teaching those materials in military classrooms, providing
private instruction, posting on blogs, etc. for many years now. My
largest, and most successful project was to write the Personnel
Qualification Standards (PQS) for a newly installed HP-Mini based system
used for coordinating real-time tactical data among various agencies
(DEA, USCG, USN and Marine Corps, US Army and Air Force) aboard 378'
cutters in the US Coast Guard. That documentation went on to be approved
by the Secretary of Transportation and the Commandant of the Coast Guard
as the official PQS for all 378' cutters with OTCIX (Office in Tactical
Command Information Exchange) aboard.
I look forward to contributing my skills and background to the group.
As for the immediate future, I will be working on the multiboot guide
under the watchful eye of randomuser. It will be a bit challenging as
far as time is concerned; I have several somewhat needy clients! lol
But, I am sure that I am not the Lone Ranger when it comes to needing a
30 hour day...
Come what may, I will do what I can as often as I can.
I also look forward to working with the group and getting to know you
more as we interact online.
BTW, having been in the military for so many years, my skin is pretty
thick. Don't hesitate to jump in with constructive criticism where you
feel you need to speak up about something I have written. *Constructive*
is the operative word and with that, I am always grateful for another
point of view.
Feel free to shoot me an email directly for issues that don't need to be
addressed with the entire group. My public key is attached. Please send
signed/encrypted emails as much as possible: I am kind of a privacy nut
-- increasingly so after getting involved with Penetration Testing! lol
Have a great day everyone!
--
Warm Regards,
Roger Baran, Owner
Rapid Recovery IT Services
San Antonio, TX
9 years, 6 months
@randomuser
by Roger Baran, Owner
Here is what I put together from our chat yesterday.
Could you please review and tell me if I missed anything or if there is
something you would like to add to it.
I will be using this as a ready-ref as I get myself bootstrapped.
Thank you in advance
--
Warm Regards,
Roger Baran, Owner
Rapid Recovery IT Services
San Antonio, TX
9 years, 6 months
Re: Release notes have a launcher - maybe we should remove that
by Petr Kovar
On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:12:04 -0400
Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 16:52 +0200, Petr Kovar wrote:
> \
> > It could be gnome-documents as Matthias proposed if we choose to ship PDF
> > instead of a bunch of HTML pages.
> >
> > It could be yelp as it supports transforming DocBook/Mallard XML as well as
> > viewing HTML pages. I just tested it and yelp works quite well:
> >
> > $ yelp /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-notes/index.html
>
> I think all of these questions about formats and tools are a bit
> secondary though.
I agree that these are secondary as long as desktop users can find what they
are looking for. Providing a docs search functionality would surely help
with that need.
> Having the release notes on the system really makes most sense if we
> actually make an effort to present them to the user when he would be
> most interested in seeing them - right after installation.
+1
> The current post-install workflow already launches yelp with the
> gnome-getting-started guide. Maybe that page can be expanded to include
> the release notes in some form ?
Yes, this is something we can do. Assuming that we want to provide a
link to the Release Notes from the GNOME Getting Started landing page,
there are multiple ways to approach this. As I said, we could add the
link upstream and use Mallard conditionals to only display the link on
Fedora since the link is downstream-specific. We could also provide a
downstream patch but translations would be a problem then.
GNOME Initial Setup could also get an extra button that would launch the
Release Notes.
Cheers,
pk
9 years, 6 months
Meeting
by John J. McDonough
Sorry I didn't make the meeting AGAIN. Lately seems like things keep
happening on Monday. Today it was my annual finger up the butt. The
good news is I don't have to do that for another year. Next week I'll
be in Lansing for a meeting with FEMA. But the following week looks
good (sigh).
I have been wanting to bring up some ideas on re-use of doc segments.
That discussion seems to have died out. Was there a resolution that I
missed or did it just fade into the sunset?
--McD
9 years, 6 months
Re: Release notes have a launcher - maybe we should remove that
by Elad Alfassa
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote:
>> To me a perfect solution would be to place the release notes in
>> gnome-control-center's 'Details' section. It seems like an
>> appropriate
>> location and is better suited to these sorts of things since it is
>> not
>> somewhere like ~/Documents in which they are user-removable.
>> This approach would of course require downstream patches, however.
>
> Or we could display them on an optional spoke in anaconda.
>
> --
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> desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
That's just silly.
--
-Elad Alfassa.
9 years, 6 months
Re: Release notes have a launcher - maybe we should remove that
by Matthew Miller
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:12:04PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Having the release notes on the system really makes most sense if we
> actually make an effort to present them to the user when he would be
> most interested in seeing them - right after installation.
>
> The current post-install workflow already launches yelp with the
> gnome-getting-started guide. Maybe that page can be expanded to include
> the release notes in some form ?
Makes sense. And in the future, it would also be nice to have them nicely
visible in the event of an upgrade from one Workstation release to the next
— or even presented in some way when a release-to-release update is
_available_.
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
9 years, 6 months
Re: Release notes have a launcher - maybe we should remove that
by Jared K. Smith
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Search providers are all backed by applications. What's the application
> to read the docs in /usr/share/help?
>
That would depend on the format, I think. A browser for HTML docs, evince
for PDF, or Yelp for DocBook/Mallard.
> It would probably be better to have those docs be converted to something
> Yelp
> can read and integrated in the Help, at least for GNOME and for
> Workstation.
>
The release notes, like most of the docs written the Docs team, are already
written in DocBook, which Yelp handles just fine. The docs team can also
easily convert them to PDF, HTML (multi-page), HTML (single-page), and even
Markdown (with the latest release of the Publican tool). In short, I don't
think conversion is a problem here -- we simply need to agree on what
format(s) we want, and figure out the new workflow.
--
Jared Smith
9 years, 6 months