And so Sun launches another community. I hope this one does well, and goodness knows we should have learnt from the previous experiences. Nice to see a GUADEC link in the events page – grin.
Congrats guys.
This is a nice list of speakers. Kinda makes you want to come, huh? Only 12 more days for early-bird registration. There looks like a good handful of GNOME people coming too.
Carolyn bought me tickets for the John Butler Trio concert on Friday evening. I’ve got the ‘Sunrise Over Sea’ album, and most of his set of 15 songs was from that. There was a lot of really excellent intrumentals, with a very new age/hippy vibe – some of which started to drag after standing around for 2 hours. Definitely worth checking out if he’s in your area, or buying the album. Great present though!
Been climbing with John a bit since he arrived. With the summer finally showing us a few hot days, we’ve got out to the local crag and done some sport routes. Don’t feel hugely unfit, but my stamina could sure do with improvement. Touch also started up after the Christmas break, which I’m still hugely enjoying – a good run around on a Friday evening, followed by beers, is definitely a nice end to the week. Next weekend, we got tickets to the International One dayer between New Zealand and the Rest of the World – just hope the weather continues for a good day of cricket and beers.
Joe reminds me of the pure misery I endured a week or two ago, when I mis-clicked one window using Internet Explorer [I know, I’m dumb]. Suddenly my desktop turned into a disaster zone – everything grinding to a halt, desktops icons showing various XXX related icons, desktop blacking out with a “Your desktop has been affected by Spyware. Here’s how you fix your desktop, click here!” screen. I spent ages and ages trying to find various processes to kill before my machine stopped swapping like crazy, enough to download Ad-aware. Ran that a couple of times, but to little effect – various nasties would recreate themselves on a reboot, eventually causing a bluescreen everytime I tried to run Ad-aware. Hosed. You have no idea how incredibly frustrating it is as a somewhat technical user not being able to find the root causes [believe me, I checked hundreds of directories, files and entries in the registry that day].
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Well, yes. It’s here, and here.
Although in the 2nd case, I really wish our marketing and executives would acknowledge that it is GNOME under the hood and be proud to advertise that fact. Maybe that’s a failing of the GNOME project [or foundation board] that we haven’t pressed that enough.
After 7 months of bouncing back between Sun and Dell’s financial departments, my PC is finally ordered. Wahey. I got so giddy at that thought, that I decided to also invest in a new Dell Dimension desktop for shits and giggles, and games like Half Life 2.
