Be the signal » desktop http://bethesignal.org where we're going, we don't need roads... Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:15:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 GNOME 2.22 and other awesome http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/03/18/gnome-222-and-other-awesome/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/03/18/gnome-222-and-other-awesome/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:50:17 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/03/18/gnome-222-and-other-awesome/ Somewhat belated celebration of our latest release, but hey, I just wanted to see the release love continue to roll by on all the Planets. :-) Check out Dave’s release linkage for some bricks and whole bunch of bouquets.

Definitely great to see Cheese (of which I am quite the fan) so prominently featured in the release notes and on the front page. Rock on, Daniel!

Amazingly, something even more exciting in the GNOME galaxy has just concluded… the (by all reports) über-successful GTK+ Hackfest.

Congratulations to all involved… The future looks bright — burning magnesium bright!

GNOME 2.22

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Sydney 2008 Fireworks
Photo courtesy SMH. Click the image for more.

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Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier

So if you’re wondering who jinxed 2008 for us, it’s this man. Zonk, it’s like I don’t even know who you are anymore! Come back to us!

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Cheese 2

Cheese 1

]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/08/31/thank-you-cheese/feed/ 4 GNOME: Ten years of Freedom! http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/08/17/gnome-ten-years-of-freedom/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/08/17/gnome-ten-years-of-freedom/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:00:16 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/08/17/gnome-ten-years-of-freedom/ GNOME 10 Year Anniversary

A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME’s tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day and the release of GNOME 2.20.

During the celebration month, GNOME contributors will create a scrapbook wiki recording their ten year history, and a commemorative cookery book with “Open Source” recipes contributed by GNOME community members from around the world.

Read the full press release, and stay tuned for the scrapbook wiki, which will open for all GNOME historians this weekend. :-)

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“Simple” is a deeply valued principle in the GNOME and Ubuntu ethos, so it’s great to see it recognised and appreciated more and more everyday outside the project echo chambers. Vorsprung durch Einfachheit.

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Update: Melissa points out that UserFriendly was pretty awesome on the 17th too.

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Steve Jobs’ vision for the web, rendered as a pie chart.

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]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/06/12/safari-on-windows/feed/ 13 Looking for a simple GPS receiver http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/05/07/looking-for-a-simple-gps-receiver/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2007/05/07/looking-for-a-simple-gps-receiver/#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 03:22:09 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/05/07/looking-for-a-simple-gps-receiver/ Dear Lazyweb,

I am looking for a simple GPS receiver for my laptop. Ideally, it would disappear into one of the PCMCIA or SD slots, but I am having a tough time finding something like this. Alternatively, if Bluetooth is the only sensible answer, tell me I’m dreaming, and perhaps suggest one that will work well with the 770 and my laptop. I am dipping my toe into the river of GPS for the first time, so any help from experienced users will be greatly appreciated!

I shouldn’t have to mention my operating system of choice, should I? He’s fat, he’s happy, he’s a penguin… :-)

Love, Jeff

Update: Okay, everyone’s telling me that only a doofus would get a non-Bluetooth GPS unit. Simon Rumble pointed me to some very simple, good quality, inexpensive ones that charge over USB and have Nokia-style batteries (you can find them all over eBay). Of course, now I’m looking into it, I’m getting the taste for one that does logging… :-)

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