Category Archives: computer

Anything that has to do with machines, internet, open source and technology.

Majáles.

Posted on 2007-05-04 by aklapper

Majáles Ein schönes kleines (15000 Leute vielleicht?) Festival auf dem ehemaligen Expo-Gelände in Výstavištĕ, also 10 Minuten von meinem Wohnheim entfernt. Das Gelände ist leicht verfallen und hat einen eigenen Charme (viele Bäume, alte Wege), das Bier war staubiger als … Continue reading →

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dear lazyweb,

Posted on 2007-04-14 by aklapper

i had removed the 40gb toshiba harddisk from my ibm thinkpad t41. after putting it back again, it does not get recognized anymore by the bios (“hdd0” remains empty, cdrom and lan of course get recognized) and it sounds like … Continue reading →

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bug days. evo.

Posted on 2007-03-30 by aklapper

better late than never: the bug day on last wednesday was interesting. while there were many people at the beginning, it was very calm for the last hours, which perhaps was a bit frustrating for our motivated bugsquadders, but all … Continue reading →

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bugday / politics schmolitics.

Posted on 2007-03-10 by aklapper

you’ve been a GNOME fan for some time now? you’d like to contribute somehow, but cannot/don’t want to write code? one possible way is helping the GNOME bugsquad to handle the incoming bug reports (the so called “triaging”). there will … Continue reading →

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GNOME 2.18 is on your way, baby.

Posted on 2007-02-25 by aklapper

been working on writing (hmm… or “mashing up”?) guidelines for proposing new modules for the GNOME desktop, and translated for the first time a .po file, just to check out something totally new. :-) sent a last showstopper review for … Continue reading →

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showstoppers.

Posted on 2007-01-23 by aklapper

pretty busy with real-life stuff as i’m going to move, hope to find much more time in february. there hasn’t been that much feedback on the GNOME 2.16.3 showstopper review, but since posting it, 349697 has been perhaps resolved and … Continue reading →

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"install debug packages! now!"

Posted on 2006-12-17 by aklapper

still thinking of how to get better and faster feedback (and less useless reports – thanks to fer for rejecting empty stacktraces in bug-buddy), we’re still closing way too many needinfo bugs as incomplete. one idea: stock responses providing direct … Continue reading →

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lots of bad stacktraces.

Posted on 2006-12-06 by aklapper

taking a look at the weekly bugzilla summary, we see that the applications with the most bug reports filed per week are nautilus, evolution, totem and epiphany. many of those crasher reports will be set to needinfo state, because the … Continue reading →

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bug flood.

Posted on 2006-11-30 by aklapper

(welcome, dear planet gnome. who i am? check bugzilla, or the evolution archives.) looks like luis was already scared by my previous chart, so here’s another one: the number of nautilus bugs filed per day, within the last months: (yes, … Continue reading →

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bug flood.

Posted on 2006-11-29 by aklapper

played around with bugzilla.gnome.org’s reports.cgi and chart.cgi, and finally ended up in gnumeric. the chart should describe the situation pretty clearly – no more words, need sleep.

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