Interesting that Tim has come across ‘Directory Hell’ on his latest notes with moving from Linux to Solaris. What some might call amazingly confusing, seems to be a feature for most Solaris engineers, and ARC members. Lots of other interesting notes – I think python was only recently added to Solaris by the GNOME team [although could have been in /opt/sfw for a while].
so I was talking to Suzanna on IM today, and like most conversations we ended up talking about the weather, and me complaining that it was going to get really cold in my current room. So I took some photos to explain, here, here, and here. Then she asked me to zoom into the photos, here, here, here, and here. Then we began discussing photos and our inability to organize them into albums. Wouldn’t it be eery to put together someone’s life history based on a selection of their photos, even though you have never met them, or shared only a small part of their life.
I too saw this webcast. It was a joy to listen to, and look forward to future webcasts like this. It’s nice to see Sun execs who can be open and honest about where they think the industry and Sun is going, communicate their beliefs well, and be inspiring at the same time. Ace.
So, since Luis was successful about asking for artwork for the Live CD he’s creating, I thought I might try the blogging approach. I’m starting to write my GUADEC talk [101 Things to Know about GNOME], and I’m really struggling with Staroffice and it’s templates. Traditionally I’ve pinched the Sun corporate templates and modified them, but I’m slightly tired of this approach. Anyone keen on creating a generic GNOME Staroffice template? We badly need one for GNOME – and you could help! Email glynn[dot]foster[at]sun.com with your submissions!
Having spent a large part of last week organizing some itinerary for linux.conf.au, raising an expense request and email exchange with a local travel agent, I find out that there’s a newly introduced travel ban in our group. Suck. Now to decide whether to fund my own way, or save just in case I need to fund myself to GUADEC in May.
Really pleased to see the GNOME contributors map.
Had a pretty good weekend. Headed out with a whole bunch of people on Friday night for a cheap chinese, and a couple of frames of pool at the local. Saturday was another cricket match between Weedons and Southbridge, which we won by 8 wickets – wahoo! Sunday was recovering from the pain of my muscles ceasing up. I badly need to get a bit more flexible and fitter.
Other notable milestones within the last few weeks – finished Half Life 2, started Doom 3 and joined the Skype hype. Looking forward to Tim & Bob [my brother and sister-in-law] and Mick [ex-flatmate and long time lord] visiting Christchurch in March.
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.
