Category Archives: Geek

GNOME Users/Developers in the Chicago area

Posted on June 22, 2007 by kenvandine

Just a reminder, the first ever meeting of the Chicago GNOME User Group will be this weekend at BarCampChicago 2007. Sunday at 3pm. I think this is actually the first GNOME User Group meeting in the US, but I could … Continue reading →

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Bringing Foresight to Chicago!

Posted on June 13, 2007 by kenvandine

BARcamp Chicago here I come. I am going to be giving two presentations at BARcamp Chicago the weekend of June 23-24. Topics will be: Foresight Linux, what is it and why you want it Conary packaging and building with rMake … Continue reading →

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Foresight on fire!

Posted on June 7, 2007 by kenvandine

A little story about my first x86_64 Foresight test box. We have been in the need for some test hardware and a very generous Foresight team member offered to donate almost an entire box, CPU, motherboard, RAM, Hard drive, and … Continue reading →

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Foresight Linux 1.3 and the road to 2.0

Posted on May 30, 2007 by kenvandine

Thanks to all that helped get 1.3 done, this release went very smoothly. We have quite a organization now, from developers and writers to translators. We have an official news letter, user guides, and proper release notes and our translators … Continue reading →

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GNOME Live images for 2.18.2

Posted on May 30, 2007 by kenvandine

I have updated the live images for GNOME 2.18.2, they are available here. The LiveCD hasn’t been updated, I have hit what appears to be a unionfs issue… working on that now and hopefully will get that published soon. There … Continue reading →

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Fun with themes

Posted on May 12, 2007 by kenvandine

I was playing around with a darker theme based on UbuntuStudio, . So far. the only thing I changed was the blue to the Foresight Green. Very nice work by the UbuntuStudio guys, keep it up! Of course I packaged … Continue reading →

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tomboy-plugin-jira

Posted on May 11, 2007 by kenvandine

After enjoying the nice short links for gnome bugzilla created by the bugzilla plugin in tomboy, it started to annoy me that my links to jira issues are so long. After all… most issues I link in my notes comes … Continue reading →

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Conduit

Posted on May 7, 2007 by kenvandine

I have been waiting for an app like conduit for quite sometime. Mostly because I live and breath based on Tomboy notes, and hate not really having a backup besides the rsync of my homedir from time to time. Conduit … Continue reading →

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Commit mail archiving

Posted on May 7, 2007 by kenvandine

I am trying out googlegroups for archiving foresight commit mail. Pretty cool service, nice web interface, and now I can have an rss feed for commits. http://groups.google.com/group/foresight-linux-commits http://groups.google.com/group/foresight-linux-commits/feed/atom_v1_0_topics.xml?num=50 Down side is I can’t seem to get the diff output in … Continue reading →

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Update the GNOME LiveCD

Posted on May 5, 2007 by kenvandine

I just published an updated build of the GNOME LiveCD 2.18.1. I found a rather ugly mono problem on the previous one, specifically mono not playing well with unionfs. Fixed now, get it from the usual places. Torrent rBuilder

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