Pretty functional day really but useful things: Registered Callum’s birth so the government can start monitoring him now. Paranoid? Me? Why would you say that…? Finally got around to getting an electrician out to sort our oven. One new element later and (hopefully) it’s fixed. More investigation on bug #216129. Did some checking of the …
Monthly Archive: January 2007
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Jan 30 2007
The world’s favourite unnecessary polluter?
I am absolutely livid that British Airways today ran flights as normal just hours after averting strike action by the T&G Union. The vast majority of customers due to be on today’s flights had cancelled because of the possible action and the reopened seats were not advertised early enough for a full allocation to be …
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Jan 30 2007
BBC Radio on Banshee (3)
For entirely understandable reasons of format support, Aaron has removed the BBC feeds from radio.banshee-project.org. Therefore, I’ve restored my version and I refer you to my previous post on the subject for instructions.
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Jan 28 2007
gnome-power-manager on Factory
gnome-power-manager is yet to be built with the correct prefix in Factory and, as such, is lacking some functionality currently. Anyone using Factory who wants that functionality (such as responding to lid closing etc) can grab a working package from my home repo. It’s only built for Factory and as soon as the distro version …
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Jan 28 2007
BBC Radio on Banshee (2)
Okay, Aaron’s added the BBC streams to the Banshee site so to access them all you have to do now is refresh your station list. As a result the version I was hosting has been removed. Aaron’s currently working on a UI for adding your own stations and most UK stations have an online stream. …
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Jan 27 2007
Banshee Radio Plugin – listen to the BBC
The latest Banshee packages from the build service include the new internet radio plugin. Now, at the moment it officially only supports stations that can be accessed from the Banshee project radio website by Banshee itself. Not good enough for me as I only listen to BBC stations. So, here’s the skinny on how to …
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Jan 26 2007
GNOME:Community on Factory
This is for the attention of all people who are maintaining packages in GNOME:Community. Packages that still have their %sysconfdir set to /etc/opt/gnome are broken in Factory. You need to specify it correctly using %if %suse_version … If the %prefix is also set to /opt/gnome it needs to be set correctly. There’s a whole bunch …
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Jan 25 2007
College Visitors
Callum made his first visit to college, as did Teresa who’s studying through the Extension Studies programme. Suffice to say he was a huge hit with all who saw him. People couldn’t quite believe he’s my son given how cute he is Thinking it might be time to revisit the tomboy-plugins sub-package which was discussed …
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Jan 25 2007
But the GIMP’s asleep
It most certainly is not, development continues apace toward version 2.4 of everyone’s favourite image editor. 2.3.14 is now out, and it’s available from GNOME:Community (package name gimp-unstable). I will get around to building abiword-unstable soon but the way the source is distributed has changed for 2.5 so I need to do some work on …
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Jan 24 2007
Catch-up
Haven’t blogged for a couple of days so what’s going on? Well, Teresa’s staying with us for a couple of weeks to help us get settled with Callum for which we are profoundly grateful. Also, my mum and Dorothy came over to visit today. Had a good meeting with Stephen Travis yesterday about my dissertation …
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