An Electronic Tower of Babel: “Still, companies in the past few years
have focused more on adding performance and features than on making products
that are easy to use and play well with other machines.” It always pleases
me that GNOME is doing The Right Thing here.
Monthly Archives: January 2004
Saturday, 31 January 2004
January 31, 2004 – 10:25
Monday, 19 January 2004
January 19, 2004 – 00:40
Pounding
the nail on the head, CSIRO’s mathematical and information sciences
division uses Debian, GNOME, R and Python for their data mining research and
applications. They’ve shipped it to the Health Insurance Commission, the
NRMA and the Department of Health and Ageing. Rocking.
Saturday, 10 January 2004
January 10, 2004 – 17:54
Much of the first part of today (which has been a very long ‘today’) spent
hacking on release strategy proposal, web planning documents and
library.gnome.org. It’s going to rock way hard when these planets align. I
was really hoping to get the release strategy stuff out of the way today,
but it’s kinda laborious. Cool, but pushing lots of […]
Saturday, 10 January 2004
January 10, 2004 – 16:27
Very saddened to hear of
another loss in the GNOME community: Mark Finlay was young, eager,
furiously energetic and just heading into university - where I’m sure he
would have blossomed into a great GNOME and Free Software hacker. I chatted
with Mark a lot during his time with GNOME, helping him grok how GNOME
worked, where cool things were […]
Saturday, 10 January 2004
January 10, 2004 – 14:22
Had a good day today with arch and all this Planet hacking. First off, I had
to merge Scott’s changes into my tree. I had made a few touch-ups here and
there, so Scott’s changes were based on a slightly older revision. Merged
without a hitch, despite some dunderheaded mistakes on my part. I was going
to make sure […]
Planets in Alignment
January 10, 2004 – 12:17
Some crazy progress on Planet. Thanks to Scott’s excellent work ridding us
of old horrors, I’ve managed to build multiple output support in record
time. Planet GNOME now supports RSS 2.0 and RSS 1.0 feeds of its
aggregation, and further output formats are just a template away. In the
next half hour, it will provide its blogroll as OPML […]
Saturday, 10 January 2004
January 10, 2004 – 05:17
spiv points out some Penny
Arcade prescience
of Planet Proliferation. Hell yeah! Scott just sent a
lengthy email describing his massive rewrite of Planet. It is now truly an
awesome aggregator, with none of the old pyblaggisms. He has totally
kicked its arse. I’m going to work on python2.1 compatibility, RDF/FOAF/OPML
output, and then port the desktop aggregator stuff I’ve been […]
Saturday, 10 January 2004
January 10, 2004 – 01:51
Sun may
change Linux desktop platform… Where in the
World is the KDE League?… The
GNOME Lover’s Guide to linux.conf.au… GUADEC 2004 Call For Papers.
Fun, fun, fun…
Friday, 9 January 2004
January 9, 2004 – 14:33
Are you a SuSE dude? James
Ogley - you may know him from such websites as Rubber Turnip and usr local bin - has set up a Planet
SuSE and is calling
for SuSE community bloggers to jump on board. I’ll add it to the
Planetarium list once James finds an official home for it. ROCK ON!
Thursday, 8 January 2004
January 8, 2004 – 20:01
I just fixed a breathtakingly bad off-by-one error in the Planet code. You
don’t have to go fossicking for certain entries anymore (such as Dave’s,
John’s, Evo’s, Ximian Desktop’s… all the MoveableType blogs, though it’s
not MT’s fault). This is a deeply pleasing fix, and it has brought warmth to
Dave’s black, black heart.
