retrospections: André’s Weblog - Blog
“… something else that I’ve been musing about in the past week is that there’s a really interesting culture difference between the Mac OS X community and the Linux community.” — André on Quality and Freedom
(tags: opensource design quality freedom)
Gossip TELEPATHY branch merged to TRUNK
Gossip has always had a delightful user interface. Now it has new innards in the form of Telepathy, an communications framework that provides pluggable, multiple protocol compatibility and awesome features such as Google Talk (jingle) and videophone funct
(tags: gossip gnome telepathy voip im)
IBM Sets Record for Most U.S. Patents Earned […]
Earlier this afternoon, I waved goodbye to a very heavily packed three tonne truck carrying pretty much all of our linux.conf.au 2007 gear to UNSW, a striking image marking the end of our planning and preparation phase. Now it’s for real!
Over this weekend the Seven Team and our merry band of helpers will be bumping in […]
John Ferlito, Seven Tech Guru
With a bit of expert advice from The Internet’s Larry Ewing, Pia and I bought a Canon EOS 400D today. What a delightful piece of hardware! This photo of John Ferlito is the best of today’s bunch.
It’s going to take a while to get back into the swing of using a real camera, […]
I was looking for something zesty to personalise our 2007 business cards, and stumbled on the idea of putting hackergotchis on them. At first I thought it would suck pretty badly, but on changing the effective DPI of the image (meaning no interpolation or lossy scaling), I discovered that the average hackergotchi will be about […]
This year, linux.conf.au will be renamed. After lengthy debate on the Linux Australia mailing list, the Seven team has decided that the only way to make any progress on the issue without the community being crippled by consensus gridlock is to simply make a decision and move on. Ask for forgiveness, not permission, as they say.
Thus, […]
Some amusing Ubuntu history for you…
A few weeks back, Matt Zimmerman — who must be aiming for a world record in “dude, you so need a blog” demands — reminded me about a bizaare video created early last year as a test for a potential Ubuntu feature, so I thought I’d share one of the stranger historical footnotes in Ubuntu’s […]
