Monthly Archives: October 2002

29 Oct 2002

GNOME
Metric shitload of GNOME work conquered recently. Lots of running around to the various authors looking to get their software into the Desktop release, making sure they know what to expect, whether they’re ready or not, encouraging them to release and see what happens, etc. The 2.1.x series is shaping up very well, and within […]

25 Oct 2002

pfremy
Just give it up. The GNOME and KDE hackers have a healthy respect for each other which far outweighs your trolling in value for the Free Software community. Perhaps you should learn from your peers and contribute positively. The rest of us, hacking on both desktop environments, have no time, desire or need to troll.
I find […]

25 Oct 2002

Uraeus
Please don’t fight trolls with trolls.

18 Oct 2002

The Ever Astounding Advogato Employment Status Update
With this post, I am now an Advogato cliché! Hooray for me! Ahem.
This whole "shifting from consulting to permanent employment" thing is both exciting and irritating all at once. I’ve done consulting either by myself or within a company for too long now, and would like an opportunity to work in […]

16 Oct 2002

Silver lining…
… or this week’s most significant evidence pointing to the systematic cynical oppression of the metaverse?
So, today has been a nice little package of bad news… But at the tail end, a silver lining in the acceptance of my linux.conf.au abstract. Which is great, were I even remotely financially capable of actually going. “Oh, but there […]

14 Oct 2002

habes
There is no good reason to throw away so many years work on X - it’s such a good platform. Your specific points are so close to being solved:

Too hard to configure: Work is being done to make XF86Config optional (required only for setups that are too difficult to detect, or old monitors).
Fonts suck: Whilst fonts are […]

05 Oct 2002

gman & jaq
88MPH: The speed at which Doc’s Delorean - equipped with a 1.2 gigawatt-sapping plutionium-powered flux capacitor - disappears in temporal displacement, leaving nothing behind but a pair of flaming tyre tracks.
With the 2.1.x unstable development branch, GNOME has gone Back to the Future…