Tag Archives: FLOSS

Major GNOME announcement next Thursday

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

If you were wondering what this obtuse, xkcd-inspired stream of numbers meant… Now I can reveal a little more, as per www.gnome.org… If you love GNOME, and you’re near Santa Clara next Thursday, come and see us!

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WordPress Tango/GNOME Smilies

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Been playing with Tango icons recently, so had the bright idea of swapping out most of the default WordPress smilies for luscious Tango and GNOME icon theme emotes: … icky awesome … Much nicer! Cheesy and nasty, but I just … Continue reading →

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Spooks dig GConf

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

At the recent SE Linux Symposium, James Carter of the NSA spoke about using GConf as a user space object manager. The paper covers the application of Flask principles (and SE Linux in particular) to user configuration, and is well … Continue reading →

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Google/O’Reilly Open Source Awards 2007

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

Google and O’Reilly have announced that nominations are open for their Open Source Awards, which will be presented at OSCON 2007. As a past recipient, I’m on the selection committee. That means I think this is cool, not that you … Continue reading →

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A Stream of Numbers

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Jeff Waugh
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QoTD: Miguel de Icaza

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

“Implement a Gtk# widget that brings the Office-like ribbons to Gtk#. Focus is on managed widgets, not in C-based widgets.” — Miguel de Icaza, Mono Summer of Code ideas (emphasis mine). Go team. It’s also pretty sad that they’re pursuing … Continue reading →

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E is for Europe

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

This is why it’s clear to me that the E in GUADEC still stands for Europe: While some folks are trying to widen the scope by appealing to the faux fairness of sharing, I think the evidence pins true fairness … Continue reading →

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QoTD: Ron Hovsepian

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

“[The covenant not to sue] was one of the business things [Microsoft] wanted out of it, and, in defense of them, it was really probably secondary or tertiary in the discussions and it took a little bit of time for … Continue reading →

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Glynn runs for OGB

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

“I have never built my own kernel.” — Glynn Foster, The Face of Sun Microsystems There’s a story behind my nickname for Glynn, which goes back to Sun’s first steps into the GNOME community. Even though a few Sun folks … Continue reading →

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Coffee for the Seven House

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Jeff Waugh

Though we looked around for a house near UNSW to rent for a couple of weeks, it turns out that Pants Palais is the ideal crash spot for the Seven Team during linux.conf.au 2007. It’s reasonably close, already houses three … Continue reading →

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