Fabian A. Scherschel
Fab, also frequently known online as fabsh, was born and raised in Duisburg (which can roughly be described as the Pittsburgh of Germany, just that the hockey team is a lot less good). He has also lived a while in Queensland, Australia where he picked up most of his English language skills. He has studied Modern History, Politics and English in Bonn and has been an open source and free software enthusiast for many years now. Fab has run Linux full time on all of his computers since 2007. Other than that, he loves playing Minecraft, dabbles in the painting of canvas and little miniatures as well as computer art and enjoys listening to old school Rock’n’Roll. For a living, Fab writes as a technology journalist for the UK news site The H, which is part of the Heise family.
Other random facts about Fab include that he loves penguins (both the actual animal as well as ice hockey teams of the name) and foxes, is a huge fan of the short lived TV series Firefly, could never be a vegetarian, adores the music of Bruce Springsteen, dislikes religion, sucks at video games but loves playing them anyway, has been in a loving relationship for over a decade now, has been a Star Trek fan pretty much all his life, was once able to speak French at least passable, hates spiders and he is also a hat aficionado. Oh yes, and despite longstanding rumours to the contrary, Fab is actually a really nice guy. If you’re interested in seeing what he is up to on a day to day basis, follow him on Google+ and Twitter.
For a list of podcasts Fab is listening to, please have a look on this page.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
Have you guys seen this? It’s not open source or Linux friendly, but fuck it, nobody’s perfect all the time.
Yes, I’ve seen it. Not sure why you added this as a comment on my bio page, though.
I been listening to show for awhile now really enjoy it an the swearing just the icing on the cake
but I keep hearing about email clients popping up because thunderbird stopped support. I got some news there still updating it! you like it keep using it. Again I enjoy show keep up good work 
Wacom Tablet Support Might Be Axed From Qt 5.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE3OTU
From Krita website Faq section:
“What tablets does Krita support?
Krita isn’t much fun without a pressure sensitive tablet. Krita uses the Qt library to provide the application interface and the tablet support. Right now, Qt only supports Wacom tablets on Linux. There is a patch that makes some tablets work, but Qt hasn’t integrated it yet. The Krita developers only have Wacom tablets, dontated to us by the community. We cannot test Krita ourselves with other tablets.”
Well everyone Qt5 axes Wacom support. Krita will be useless for graphics artists!. And therefore the Linux platform, since unlike Windows and OSX, no more professional grade tools that can rival Corel Painter!!.
They put all this effort into making Krita a excellent Linux replacement for Corel Painter. And the QT developers plan on ruining the whole project, by not supporting the hardware that is crucial for its existence!. You don’t do graphic artwork with just a mouse!. I guess will have to make this item #6, on how the Linux desktop can beat Windows 8!. Better graphics tablet hardware support, on all desktop enviroments!.
Stupid Move!!
Hello all the way from Perth, Australia.
Seen this and thought that you might be interested.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announces-open-access-policy.html
My bio page is hardly the appropriate place to leave things like that. Please use the Linux Outlaws show email address.
Not much point in having a comments facility on a bio page is there?
Why not? It’s called allowing people their say.