Monthly Archive: December 2004

Dec 23 2004

Blog clients

Was playing with Gnome Blog earlier. Thing is, my blog is hosted by my ISP, and I upload using SCP, so I can’t use it for my “real” blog. Wish I had the time to write a simple client, based upon Gnome Blog that would do the following (all toggleable): Save the blog entry in …

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Dec 21 2004

Roger

[Ref] Congratulations Roger. Dunno about certified, maybe committed

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Dec 20 2004

Monday

Updated GIMP packages to restore Python plugin. R.I.P. Crappy Old Laptop – it finally gave up the ghost today.

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Dec 19 2004

GIMP/Gnumeric

The GIMP and Gnumeric have both hit their next stable version, 2.2.0 and 1.4.1 respectively. Gnumeric is built, GIMP is building, and I’ll upload them both, along with updated libgsf and librsvg later on. Update: Note to self, log Python plugin build bug Update 2: Blimey! Just noticed that my GIMP builds are linked from …

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Dec 18 2004

Another weekend

Two weddings in a week! Fiona and Richard’s today at college, and we were in the ‘choir’ for the signing of the register and during the eucharist. Another lovely day, and it’s the first wedding I’ve ever been to that included a celebration of the eucharist. We’ve finally put our tree up, only a week …

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Dec 17 2004

Friday

Last night went very well, a lot of fun was had by all. We ended up projecting Goom into the raftered ceiling of the chapel (where the disco part of the night was taking place. After the party had finished, we somehow managed to put the chapel, one of the lecture rooms where we’d “borrowed” …

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Dec 16 2004

Christmas Bash

Tonight is the college Christmas Bash, and I’ve been charged with looking after the music. Various people have given me CDs to rip, and tonight it’s going to be a royalty free, Free Software delivered disco. That’s right folks, a randomised selection from 452 tracks, ripped to OGG using Sound Juicer will be played with …

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Dec 15 2004

Galleries

Screw installing Gallery – chmod 0777? No thanks! Finally uploaded galleries of the two weddings and our house move.

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Dec 15 2004

Updates

Uploading updated AbiWord packages (version 2.2.2) and new packages of vino the integrated VNC server for GNOME, this is at version 2.8.1. DSL is now up and running, and at 1M downstream, which is just lovely. It dropped a couple of times last night, which was a bit weird, but I’d specified the internet facing …

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Dec 14 2004

DSL

DSL has been activated on the line (router synchronised this morning), should get authentication details today, and be up and running by the end of the day. Oh yes, my DSL is provided by NSH Consultancy, a.k.a. my mate Neil – cheers pal!

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