Vani and I both started using "Life Balance":http://www.llamagraphics.com/LB/LifeBalanceTop.html for our todo lists in the last week or two. It's great so far. One of the items I added was a occasionally recurring "File a bug report" task. Writing a "good bug report":http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html is a relatively quick and easy way to help the authors and maintainers of the software you use make it better. I was working a bit with "Xen":http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ on Fedora Core 5 some days ago and found out that the default scripts don't deal nicely with anything but the most basic net configuration. "Hello bugzilla":https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193322. MySQL is one of the nicest projects to file bug reports for, because they are very nice about "following up":http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19498 and  [Read more...]

Vani and I both started using "Life Balance":http://www.llamagraphics.com/LB/LifeBalanceTop.html for our todo lists in the last week or two. It's great so far. One of the items I added was a occasionally recurring "File a bug report" task. Writing a "good bug report":http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html is a relatively quick and easy way to help the authors and maintainers of the software you use make it better. I was working a bit with "Xen":http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ on Fedora Core 5 some days ago and found out that the default scripts don't deal nicely with anything but the most basic net configuration. "Hello bugzilla":https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193322. MySQL is one of the nicest projects to file bug reports for, because they are very nice about "following up":http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19498 and actually  [Read more...]