Archive for December, 2005

Gnome feature request

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Dear Gnome developers,
I have been a good boy all year long. What I really wish to get for Christmas is the following. As you all know, we already have this nice feature available:

Could we have this one too? It seems logical to have both, especially since there’s very little work remaining - the widget already [...]

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL - Free software !

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

A few weeks ago, Greg KH proposed a patch that moved all pci symbols from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, stating that the days of proprietary modules were numbered. Arjan Van de Ven further explained how tolerating proprietary modules was hurting the kernel in the long run.
Today, I see that Andrew Morton did one of his troll [...]

Aaaaaaaaah! (”What I am doing here?”)

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Sunday 4th December was my 26th birthday, but I didn’t get my main gift this day because I was sick. Too bad… But I got it yesterday… A tandem parachute jump from 4.000 meters high!
The moment were the “WTF am I doing here?” thought is the loudest, is this one:

At this moment I’ve got my [...]

Ubuntu packages, again

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

The unofficial repository now contains signed packages. To stop getting warnings, use the following:
wget http://www.colino.net/colin.publickey
sudo apt-key add colin.publickey
sudo apt-get update

RSSyl

Monday, December 5th, 2005

I didn’t mention it here, but Andrej, who is now on our planet, released his first plugin, RSSyl. It is, as its name states, an RSS feed aggregator plugin for Sylpheed-Claws. In my opinion it’s one of the most important external plugin written, as it finally enables hardcore Claws users who have its shortcuts hardwired [...]

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