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The Fedora 13 “Goddard” Alpha release is now available! You can participate by testing the Alpha release and reporting all bugs to the Fedora QA team. Here’s a message from Jesse Keating:

The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 13 is due in May.

We need your help to make Fedora 13 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it — every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. (Read down to the end of the announcement for more information on how to help.)

If you want to be involved with Fedora, this is a great way to make a contribution.

Back in early December 2009, I bought a Lenovo Q100 nettop. Lenovo recently released the IdeaCentre Q110. So, what’s the difference between the Q100 and Q110? It’s essentially the same as its predecessor except for two things: The nettop comes with 2GB instead of 1GB RAM. It’s also equipped with a HDMI output. Everything else is the same: 160GB hard drive. 6 USB ports, 1 mic and stereo output.

One thing I still haven’t tried is running Ubuntu Remix on it.

Search all 137 years of the Popular Science Archives. From popsci.com:

We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. And today we’re excited to announce you can browse the full archive right here on PopSci.com.

As you will soon see, it’s an amazing resource. Aside from bringing back memories for longtime readers, as a whole the archive beautifully encapsulates over a century of PopSci’s fascination with the future, and science and technology’s incredible potential to improve our lives. Tracing our dreams and visions of the future back through time, you’ll see that not a lot has changed. Some things we projected with startling accuracy, and others remain today what they were then–dreams. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

In the future, we’ll be adding more advanced features for searching and browsing, so stay tuned.

By the way, Popular Science is powered by WordPress.

I have decided to turn off all comments older than 14 days due to inordinate amount of spam comments I have been receiving. Hopefully, this will cut down on spam considerably, maybe by a hundredfold. At least, spam bots can no longer target one specific post since older posts are automatically closed after 14 days.

By the way, I’m using a plugin called ‘Close Old Posts‘ by Matt Mullenweg. Works great.

Update: The ‘Close Old Posts’ that I’ve used above technically does not really close old posts from the database point of view. If just disables the comments from being used and viewed. If you really want to close all comments older than 14 days, the better option is to go to your Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion and close it from there.

Why not give your blog a facelift? Have you noticed my new handy-dandy fancy headers? This is courtesy of a WordPress plugin called Facelift Image Replacement. Just download the plugin and install. If you like to add your own personal fonts, just place them in the fonts folder of the plugin.

There are thousands of free fonts available online. 1001 Free Fonts is just one of many. I am using a font called Will and Grace, after the font used in the popular sitcom of the same name. Here is one example showing h2 headers.

My Blog Needs A Facelift. Botox, Plastic Surgery?

It’s a pretty cool WordPress plugin. It’s SEO friendly as well. Give it a try. Give your blog a facelift.