Fred: you will make sure you file these in bugzilla, won’t you? At the same time, this is a note to myself, when I have time I must file my niggly gnome-blog.desktop issue along with a patch.
Monthly Archive: November 2006
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Nov 05 2006
Midterms
America goes to the polls on Tuesday (well, most of it does anyway) and, unlike previous US elections, I’ve not really said much about it. Anyone who reads my blog knows what my key issues are. As a Christian, I believe the Iraq war not to be just. I believe in the easing of poverty …
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Nov 05 2006
A nice email to get
This is the text of an email I received today: Subject: Regarding your blog entry: Novell, M$ and the openSUSE projectDear James, I take the opportunity from this specific entry at your blog to say that despite being out of the Suse community a couple of years now I keep on reading your blog because …
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Nov 05 2006
Editing the Favourite Applications on the new GNOME Main Menu
It turns out this is possible, but it requires some GConf-Fu! Make sure you have the gconf-editor package installed Open the following option from the Applications menu – System: Configuration: GNOME Configuration Editor Navigate to /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/file-area Edit the user_specified_apps key by double clicking on it. For example, if you want Evolution instead of F-Spot (WHY …
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Nov 04 2006
Novell, M$ and the openSUSE project
These are more musings on this subject, prompted by a short (so far) email discussion with a friend of mine at Novell (I’ll not name the person in question, just to be on the safe side). My biggest concern is that it implicitly says that there are patent issues that people need to be protected …
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Nov 03 2006
Novell, Microsoft, nVidia…
This makes me more than a little bit nervous. I just saw the news this morning – didn’t get any tech news yesterday – so I’ve not looked deeply into it but phrases like “patent coverage” make me twitchy. If this agreement is in place until 2012, what happens in 2013? Remember software patents are …
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Nov 01 2006
Updates
Have made some changes to various packages in my repo today. This means that a bunch of expansion errors have been fixed. Abiword, Beagle and GIMP Unstable now all build on FACTORY. This makes me very happy indeed.
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