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States in Version Control Systems

4 December, 2007 – 5:32 pm

Elijah has been writing an interesting series of articles comparing different version control systems. While the previous articles have been very informative, I think the latest one was a bit muddled. What follows is an expanded version of my comment on that article.
Elijah starts by making an analogy between text editors and version […]

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Inkscape Migrated to Launchpad

28 November, 2007 – 1:13 pm

Yesterday I performed the migration of Inkscape’s bugs from SourceForge.net to Launchpad. This was a full import of all their historic bug data – about 6900 bugs.
As the import only had access to the SF user names for bug reporters, commenters and assignees, it was not possible to link them up to existing Launchpad […]

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OpenID Attribute Exchange

26 November, 2007 – 4:18 pm

In my previous article on OpenID 2.0, I mentioned the new Attribute Exchange extension. To me this is one of the more interesting benefits of moving to OpenID 2.0, so it deserves a more in depth look.
As mentioned previously, the extension is a way of transferring information about the user between the OpenID provider […]

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Weird GNOME Power Manager error message

19 November, 2007 – 7:08 am

Since upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy I’ve occasionally been seeing the following notification from GNOME Power Manager:

I’d usually trigger this error by unplugging the AC adapter and then picking suspend from GPM’s left click menu.
My first thought on seeing this was “What’s a policy timeout, and why is it not valid?” followed by “I don’t remember […]

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Identifier Reuse in OpenID 2.0

11 November, 2007 – 10:15 pm

One of the issues that the OpenID 1.1 specification did not cover is the fact that an identity URL may not remain the property of a user over time. For large OpenID providers there are two cases they may run into:

A user with a popular user name stops using the service, and they want […]

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Beer Pouring Machine

27 October, 2007 – 1:58 pm

One of the novelties in the airport lounge at Narita was a beer pouring machine. It manages to consistently pour a good glass of beer every time. You start by placing the glass in the machine:

When you press the start button, it tilts the glass and pours the beer down the side of […]

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On the way to Boston

27 October, 2007 – 11:43 am

I am at Narita Airport at the moment, on the way to Boston for some of the meetings being held during UDS. It’ll be good to catch up with everyone again.
Hopefully this trip won’t be as eventful as the previous one to Florida

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OpenID 2.0

23 October, 2007 – 2:24 pm

Most people have probably seen or used OpenID. If you have used it, then it has most likely that it was with the 1.x protocol. Now that OpenID 2.0 is close to release (apparently they really mean it this time …), it is worth looking at the new features it enables. A […]

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Back from Dunedin

18 October, 2007 – 12:14 pm

Last week I was in sunny Dunedin for a Launchpad/Bazaar integration sprint with Tim and Jonathan. Some of the smaller issues we addressed should make their way to users in the next Launchpad release (these were mainly fixes to confusing error messages on bazaar.launchpad.net). Some of the others will probably only become available […]

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Google’s Australian Election Tools

4 October, 2007 – 8:08 pm

It is probably old news to some, but Google have put up an information page on the upcoming Australian Federal Election.
The most useful tool is the Google Maps overlay that provides information about the different electorates. At the moment it only has information about the sitting members, their margin and links to relevant news […]

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