Author Archives: kenvandine

iLife has been delivered, finally :-)

Posted on February 5, 2005 by kenvandine

iLife ’05 has been delivered… finally! I have typically had good experiences with Fedex, but this was aweful. I spent a week getting contradicting stories from them. They kept telling me they had picked it up from the other address… … Continue reading →

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Beagle is packaged now…

Posted on February 3, 2005 by kenvandine

I have worked out the issues I was still having with Beagle, works great! I pulled a snapshot from cvs as of this morning, which seems pretty stable… so far Also added a script to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ to start dbus and … Continue reading →

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Change Control…

Posted on February 2, 2005 by kenvandine

Why is change control so hard? Why can’t people think before they release? I understand if you are in heavy development, Alpha or Beta phases even. But, in a production environment with customers depending on you… why would you deploy … Continue reading →

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Beagle…

Posted on January 29, 2005 by kenvandine

Got Beagle cooked up yesterday in my repository… and it is cool.. Still have some issues to work out, but I think they are related to the inotify patch to the kernel. I need to figure out how to how … Continue reading →

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GNOME based distro using Conary

Posted on January 27, 2005 by kenvandine

Thanks to the fine developers over at Specifix, shadows are available! So, I have created a shadow of their main distro using the conary label conary.vandine.org@ken:desktop (this namespace will change when we think of a cool name). This shadow will … Continue reading →

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PowerPC Meet Conary!

Posted on January 25, 2005 by kenvandine

Well, I have made progress towards my goal of porting Specifix Linux to PPC. I now have Ubuntu installed on my ibook with Conary installed and working. Yes, on my iBook. For anyone that has been reading this blog, I … Continue reading →

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Fedex Woes

Posted on January 22, 2005 by kenvandine

Well, i pre-ordered a copy of iLife ’05 to help with my home video project. It was to be delivered by the 22nd. Well, Fedex says they delivered it yesterday… but to the wrong address. Funny thing, they have 2 … Continue reading →

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Sushi… Yum!

Posted on January 22, 2005 by kenvandine

Tonight we had sushi, nothing fancy… but we pickup some various rolls at Harris Teeter. It was soooo good. I have never bought sushi @ the grocery store before, and I was pleased. Perhaps you really can get edible sushi … Continue reading →

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GNOME-Blog, no excuses anymore…

Posted on January 12, 2005 by kenvandine

Well, today I packaged up gnome-blog for Specifix Linux. It is a very simple applet that allows you to post to most popular blogging systems. It is very simple, and easy to use… so now I have no excuse not … Continue reading →

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Can’t waste 123GB

Posted on January 12, 2005 by kenvandine

So the G4 I bought off Ebay works great! One problem, the ATA interface on the Sawtooth doesn’t see more that 127GB of my 250GB drive I added. So I had to buy a Sonnet Tempo ATA133 PCI card. Now … Continue reading →

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