Amanda's out at a hen night tonight, so I'm home, left to my own devices (mmmm, chinese food...). Have downloaded GNOME System Tools CVS so I can test all of our (big shout to the GNOME Bangalore crew) work on SuSE 9.1 tomorrow morning when I drag myself out of bed.

Also, regular readers of my blog will remember the old Acer notebook I was given by a friend from church having a clear out. Finally got around to buying a cheapish CardBus NIC for it (NetGear FA511) which works well enough in SuSE 9.1. Connected to my router at 100M, which is faster than on my desktop machine, because I only have a 10M hub at the moment. One weird thing is that if I unplug it, it locks up the machine, although I can plug it once the machine is booted, and it gets detected correctly, and talks to my DHCP server quite nicely. Ah well, I can cope with that.

The upshot of all this is that I can now sit in my living room, and be online, which is just fatal. I'm currently on Asylum MUD, and I'm watching the World Series of Poker on Challenge TV. I think I need help.

Incidentally, because of the specs of the laptop, I'm using XFce. SuSE APT users might be interested to know that the xfce4 packages from tp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.0-i386/RPMS.suser-ollakka/ work great on 9.1 - you'll just need to copy /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/xfce.desktop to /opt/gnome/share/xsessions. Hint: call it xfce4.desktop in that directory so it doesn't overwrite the xfce.desktop provided by gdm. That's if you use GDM of course

Fixed a typo on the deps page in the links to the libglade2 packages.

Removed the gimp-beta packages, apparently the developers didn't want binary packages being distributed at this time. Pity the announcement on FootNotes didn't mention that.

Oh well...

Argh! I only just built GTK+ 2.4.2!

My patch to Totem was applied which was nice, and my melon-farmer of a patch for GST::Users also got committed. I'll be testing the SuSE work that myself, Carlos and the guys at GNOME Bangalore have been doing on 9.1 Saturday morning, and it should then hopefully make it into the next release.

Local & European elections yesterday, Lib Dems held Watford Council, with an increased share of the seats. reckon there's a strong chance they'll take the parliamentary seat from Labour next time around. We can only hope.