A while ago, Michael reported on Rupert’s trips to various places. For the unenlightened, Rupert was the mascot at Ximian Inc. back before it was bought out by Novell. Well, Rupert’s been to Italy recently and here’s the story of his trip… Thanks to JP for nudging me to use small versions of the images …
Monthly Archive: April 2008
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Apr 16 2008
Photos
A few new galleries from the last few weeks: Jo and Harry’s Wedding Pisa Florence Within the Florence gallery, there’s a series of shots of the city from a high vantage point. I’m planning on trying to create a huge panoramic shot of the whole city from them at some point.
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Apr 12 2008
Planet SUSE server downtime
The server hosting Planet SUSE will be being physically moved to a new rack this afternoon – some downtime will result.
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Apr 10 2008
Playing the history game
Can’t remember where this started but the most recent version I’ve seen is Garrett’s… ogley@riggwelter:~> history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head1 history
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Apr 08 2008
Walking on…
Liverpool 4-2 Arsenal (5-3 Agg) Liverpool Walk On to a third Champions’ League semi-final in four years. Managed to find a bar that was showing the first-half – they then agreed to stay open so we could see the whole game. Along with a crew of neutrals (mainly Plymouth and Leicester fans), we watched a …
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Apr 08 2008
Penguins in the Lobby
I will be uploading photos from the holiday when we’re back but for now, just one of something I spotted as we were leaving our hotel this morning. The hotel has a monitor on the reception desk which runs a custom application to display local flight, weather and other information and as we were leaving …
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Apr 07 2008
I’m in Italy
That’s right, I’m on holiday in Florence until the weekend (and very nice it is too) so I won’t be doing any work, church or openSUSE related, until I’m back. Bugs and Planet SUSE updates will have to wait. Did I mention I’m in Italy this week?
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Apr 04 2008
Friday
I’ve finally got mail-notification (with its new non-standard build system) to build in GNOME:Community so once it’s synced out to the servers, you should be able to grab 5.2. I’ve given up on GYachI because it depends on XMMS which we no longer ship (this is bug #373123 if anyone wants to throw rocks at …
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