So, Vincent writes that with fewer people on the board, “maybe we’ll see the end of the popularity contest at the next elections”. Unfortunately, with fewer people on the board, and vastly less diversity in its composition, the ‘popularity contest’ problem will actually be exacerbated. Seven people simply can’t represent the diversity of the GNOME […]
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I’ve been meaning to write a usefully detailed email about why I’ll be voting
“NO” for the current GNOME Foundation referendum (about reducing the number of
board members), but with my insane travel schedule at the moment, I haven’t had
an opportunity to sit down and write it. A journalist (who hasn’t pushed out
an article yet, so […]
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3BT has been so crazy, I’ve hardly had a moment to scratch my arse (to use the Australian lingo). So now that I’m sitting here in Milan, with a cold sweat and stomach ache so bad I’m squinting, I finally have time to finish the blog story.
First stop was New Cambridge, home of the GNOME Boston […]
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On the left, my wife Pia. Not one to pass up a challenge, Pia recently hit the local trade press with the announcement of her new gig. Rock.
On the right, my mother-in-law Denise. Apparently, she doesn’t like the swear words in my blog. I’m sure she prefers the pictures! (Muhaha, I am quite safe on the […]
I’m sitting in Martin Maly’s IronPython talk at EuroOSCON. He’s already mentioned Mono twice, noting that it has passed the IronPython test suite (“… and if it doesn’t right now, Miguel will fix it in a week or so, ha ha”). Not only is IronPython faster than CPython (using pystone), but with the latest .NET […]
The Masters of the Universe
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Glynn Foster, The Face of Sun Microsystems, talks about OpenSolaris and JDS in the latest episode of James Purser’s Linux Australia Update podcast. You’ll have to wait until next fortnight’s installment for the GNOMEy bits of Glynn’s interview.
There’s been a bit of anti-CDDL mish-mash on Planet GNOME this week, and a lot of it floating around […]
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Wow, so, good morning synchronicity lovers! At 10:59 on #gnome-hackers today, I posted the following stupid hack:
<@jdub> wow
<@jdub> so
<@jdub> a .xsession like this:
<@jdub> gnome-settings-daemon &
<@jdub> metacity &
<@jdub> nautilus &
<@jdub> gnome-panel &
<@jdub> exec xterm
<@jdub>
<@jdub> is *really* fast
Which I then improved as such:
if [ “xtrue” == “x$(gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility)” ]; then
# should really set a bunch of […]
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In early high school, I used to write games in QuickBasic. I spent a significant amount of time making a beautiful (relatively speaking) animated logo splash for my little programming efforts. A red M and a blue S would enter at the top and bottom of the screen and join together, the logo for my […]
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