http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh Dave Neary's view of the world Fri, 09 May 2008 16:59:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There has been some criticism recently of Nokia and its handling of maemo - improving the state of affairs is one of the reasons why Quim contacted me and asked me if I'd be willing to work with the project to improve things. The key to solving any problem is straightforward: Identify ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/05/09/getting-constructive-about-nokia-and-maemo/ I finally got a copy of Getting things done from Amazon about 3 weeks ago. Now if only I could find the time to read it... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/05/09/irony-of-ironies/ Following up from my previous post, there has been some interesting discussion in the comments and elsewhere. One issue in particular came throughh in a couple of comments. Ted Ts'o is gushing in his praise of the Eclipse project: Look at Eclipse; it was released by IBM in November, 2001. Within 2 ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/29/openofficeorg-a-candidate-for-a-501c6/ I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 from 7.10 today - I set the upgrade going when I went away for lunch, half hoping that it would be done when I got back. So here's my experiences so far.  The upgrade stopped with a question screen after about 15 minutes. The installer wanted ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/28/upgrading-to-ubunty-hardy-a-typical-dist-upgrade-so-far/ Funny, this post has been in my drafts for months... in relation to my earlier post, and since a trademark issue is at the heart of much of the recent OpenSolaris controversy, the time felt right to finish & publish it. Many moons ago, there was a discussion on the FLOSS ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/28/trademarks/ I've been annoyed by some of the Sun-bashing that has been going on over the past few months and years. I've written in the past about my belief that Sun are trying to do the right thing, and my appreciation for the investment that they've put into projects I ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/28/sun-trying-to-do-the-right-thing/ I see that my blog is now aggregated on Planet Maemo (at least for Maemo related stuff) - all of you who want to get my off-Maemo ramblings on GNOME, the Libre Graphics Meeting, my life, or free software in general will just have to check out my journal at ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/25/hello-planet-maemo/ Rounding out the fundraising campaign for the Libre Graphics Meeting this year, I got a surprising mail yesterday from Max Spevack of the Fedora project: We've been watching your fund raising campaign, and last we checked you were still somewhere around $600 short of your goal. The Fedora Project would like ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/25/thank-you-fedora/ Lots of people are up in arms because Red Hat's desktop team released a statement containing this: "we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future", and Ron Hovsepian said "Novell’s Suse Linux at the desktop is unlikely to be popular ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/21/red-hat-novell-canonical-and-the-free-software-desktop/ Thank you to everyone who contributed to making the Libre Graphics Meeting fundraising campaign such a huge success. Now that the campaign has ended, it's still possible to donate to support the conference, and another sponsor would do us no harm at all - just drop me a line to find ... http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/19/final-total-10980-388-11368/