I’ll join everyone else in saying that Robert Love’s recent work on kernel integration with GNOME rocks. I was also excited to see how quickly SharpDevelop has been coming along. I’ve done a bit of hacking on WoodPusher lately. Lots of code cleanup needs to be done and there’s still so much [...]
The Journey of the Magi
‘A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For the journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the [...]
PartyMy Christmas party Friday night was powered by GNOME.
There were at least 10 people at the party who had never used Linux or GNOME so I got a lot of questions like, “What kind of software is that?” Which was nice because it gave me a chance to pimp GNOME software and open source [...]
Just got back from seeing Return of the King. Wow. See this movie. Time to go play with my new machine.
Has anyone else noticed that people don’t seem willing to commit to anything anymore? You invite a bunch of people to go to an event or come to your party and you get a few positive replies, some no’s and a bunch of people who won’t say one way or the other which gives [...]
I never had the honour of meeting Ettore in person but will miss him nonetheless. My deepest sympathies to all his friends, family, and the Ximian division of Novell.
Only three things seem infinite: The sky with all its stars, the sea with
all its water, and the heart with all its tears.
Well I finally broke down and ordered the parts to build my new machine. Here’s what I’ve ordered:
Soyo Ultra Dragon KT600 Socket A Barebone Blue
with 400Watt Power Supply
AMD Athlon XP2600+ / 640K Cache / 333MHz FSB
/ Socket A / Processor / Barton Core
Speeze - [...]
I installed Fedora Core 1 this evening. My CD Writer has apparently died so I had to do an install off my hard drive. Thankfully everything went smoothly. Having entirely skipped Red Hat 9 I was pretty impressed with the change from Red Hat 8 to Fedora Core 1. After the [...]
Dave Farquhar posted an interesting entry on scp. I added a comment with one of my favourite ssh tricks: being able to run a command on a remote machine and even pipe data to the remote command and get back the results.
I enjoyed celebrating Adam’s birthday last night with friends. Afterwards I finished compiling GNOME 2.5.0. For being the first in a series of unstable development releases it has surprising stability and polish. The quick, time-based releases really help. While still a bit rough around the edges (metacity and nautilus seem to [...]
