Monthly Archives: November 2003

Dave Winer quotes Bill Joy’s comment that “Open source doesn’t assist the initial creative act”. They’re taking the same line as Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates: the notion that “Open Source doesn’t innovate”. And yet, if a group of people … Continue reading →

Slashdot comes good, occasionally: “The article doesn’t mention other reasons why the Chinese government felt Linux was ready to deploy Linux on desktops, why the available software such as StarOffice was adequate, or why Sun was chosen as the ‘preferred … Continue reading →

Havoc, thanks for the patch! Here’s a screenshot of it running on my 2.5 desktop at home. I suspect there are some leaks in GTK+ 2.3, because my GTK+-2.2-based desktop at work is not quite this crazy.

Anders points out this odd confession. As an Aussie (pronounced, “ozzy”) who says “dude” a lot, I blame the entire GNOME Project.

I’ll find somewhere more intelligent to put these soon, but in the mean time, here’s a combined gallery of hackergotchi heads. Collect and swap! Bubblegum not included! Thanks to tigert, jimmac and stro for their inspired work.

Last week, I upgraded my work PC’s RAM from 256MB to 512MB. I run Evolution, Galeon [1], lots of terminals, and occasionally things like Gnumeric [2] and OpenOffice.org. There was a very appreciable performance increase. Switching desktops no longer gives … Continue reading →

When famed Rhythmbox hackeur, Colin Walters, was attacked by a strange car while skating, not only did he have the foresight to bring along an envelope, but also the fortitude to use it: “At this point I was about two … Continue reading →

Postfix, OpenLDAP, eDirectory, GroupWise… Presto! Interesting, but if you’re more interested in total crack, you can maintain and serve websites dynamically in LDAP. CRAZY.

So, I guess this is as good a place as any to say… A mail.gnome.org list server outage between 2003-11-13 13:59:05 and 2003-11-14 05:43:09 (EST) has now been resolved. All mails were queued, and are now being delivered, albeit slowly. … Continue reading →

Ballmer on Open Source: “But at the end of the day, it’s about innovation.” – Yes, it is! “It’s about competing.” – Yes, it is! “And it’s about building up enough of innovative intellectual property to have a good business.” … Continue reading →