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 exists, all you need is some callback.
Many thanks in advance! — It’s cold here.
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 merges and added Greg’s patch to his -mm tree.
Go guys!
The opinion stated here is mine and does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
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 ass in the air and Fabien, the guy who jumped with me, was about to stick my head to his shoulder (so that I don’t hit him I suppose) and jump! After that we did a complete roll, which mean I saw the ground/the plane/the ground, and stabilized towards the ground, fell during one minute (which means we’re going down at about 150 kph), and then Fabien opened the parachute, and we got surrounded by an enourmous silence… The rest of the fly was really nice, I “piloted” the parachute a bit -pull left to go left, right to go right- and we entered a little cloud before landing.
More photos here on my slow server, and video here on a fast one (61MB). Both the photos and the film were taken by Dominique Charbouillot, the club’s videoman who tried really hard to get my face on tape although I had a hard time looking somewhere else than towards the ground ;-)
Fabien was really nice and reassuring too, thanks to him!
The effect is hard to describe, but the fear doesn’t last long, in fact it was gone the moment we stabilized face towards the ground. Really great gift, thanks Clo, Yann, Betty, Elise, Nicolas, and the four Forgue from Gagnac ! :-)
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
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 in the brain to browse blogs and news sources in a really productive way. RSSyl is already a necessity for me, so much snappier than Liferea or whatever aggregator I tried.
Plus, it allows for little bonuses like being able to forward blog posts in two clicks, something you couldn’t do this well with any other solution.
Ubuntu users can try it out very easily after having added our ubuntu repository in their sources.list:
#echo deb http://claws.sylpheed.org/ubuntu/breezy ./ >> /etc/apt/sources.list
#apt-get install sylpheed-claws-rssyl-plugin
