Be the signal » Planet http://bethesignal.org where we're going, we don't need roads... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:57:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Eumemics http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/11/14/eumemics/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/11/14/eumemics/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:50:44 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://bethesignal.org/?p=1256 Continue reading →]]> Somewhere out there is a person with enough gumption and perseverance to write a Venus filter that would strip Planets of idiotic memes using some kind of clever heuristic or learning system. Perhaps we can call this the immoral study of “eumemics”. :-)

Because this would just be cheating:

exclude = (the nearest book)
]]> http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/11/14/eumemics/feed/ 16 Planet Hula http://bethesignal.org/blog/2006/08/11/planet-hula/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2006/08/11/planet-hula/#comments Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:27:08 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://perkypants.org/blog/2006/08/11/planet-hula/ Continue reading →]]> Planet Hula just has to take the cake as the best Planet design I’ve seen so far — and I could be described as a connoisseur of the genre!

Planet Hula

Garrett has done a standout job, not just with the quality of HTML and CSS implementation, but the lengths he’s gone to support the tongue-in-cheek concept: There is indeed a Planet Hula, and its hackers are orbiting it in their spacesuits. Pure awesome.

Coulda’ been a contender? Let me know in the comments.

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  • Planet in Strange Orbit: Ben Martin (of libferris infamy) wrote a rocking article about how to set up and run your own Personal Planet. Thanks, Ben! Strangely, it was published in a particularly bad issue of Linux Journal, which for some reason covered how to untar and run blogging and podcasting tools. This is not the Linux Journal I once loved.
  • Seamless RDP: Cendio has released SeamlessRDP, a set of changes for rdesktop to provide rootless RDP functionality. I can see this being extremely useful in small business environments, where staff would be perfectly happy using Linux desktops if only they had access to one or two line-of-business applications. Rock on, Cendio! Thanks to Stephen English, who flickred a screenshot of Notepad on dapper, via RDP.
  • Nautilus Plone Backend: Not yet publically available, but on its way, is Enfold Systems work on Plone integration in GNOME, specifically via Nautilus. Check out the (Flash) demo, which is pretty rad whether you dig Plone or not. ;-)
  • Cutting back the weeds: Erich Schubert grizzles about the overgrown pile of weeds that are choking GNOME’s global preference menus. This organically grown mess has been begging for a large-scale, top-down redesign effort for a while. Hopefully we can give it some love during GUADEC.
    • ]]>     http://bethesignal.org/blog/2006/05/28/sunday-grab-bag/feed/ 1     Sweet Planet Action http://bethesignal.org/blog/2006/04/26/sweet-planet-action/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2006/04/26/sweet-planet-action/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:21:11 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://perkypants.org/blog/2006/04/26/sweet-planet-action/ Continue reading →]]> Lots of cool stuff going on in Planet land at the moment.

    • Mary Gardiner sat down with Rob Collins to add some much needed unit testing love to Planet, and is looking into a bit of sanity-inducing refactoring and optimisation as well.
    • Sam Ruby has massively improved Planet’s Atom support, to the point that it is no longer a faltering wreck! I’ve merged all of his changes into the trunk. I’m seriously considering merging these into the 1.0 branch for its terribly belated release. He’s also done some cool template hacking for his own Planet Intertwingly. Thanks Sam!
    • Phil Wilson is hacking on an XMPP-enabled desktop aggregator based on Planet and other cool Python bits. I’ve often desired the time to hack up a desktop aggregator based on Planet, Twisted and PyGTK+… Perhaps Phil’s work could be adapted to multiple GUI frontends and integrated into the main tree?

    Rock on, Planeteers!

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