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Talk Like That
It has been a long while since I posted. Let’s see what I remember. Worked on a new gnome-session. XSMP is one step closer to the curb. Mostly worked to make the logout handling more reasonable. See http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/GnomeSession and http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-session/docs/gnome-session.html … Continue reading
State of the Art :: Wallpapers
For a variety of reasons, I spent some time assembling my observations of the state of the art of desktop wallpapers. I hope that others may find this useful. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, comments, or … Continue reading
Ease of Access
One of our primary design objectives for the rewrite of GDM was to have accessibility features be well integrated with the login screen (known as the greeter) and available by default. The previous GDM supported accessibility, but not by default. … Continue reading
Fresh and Unfiltered
Friday. The end of a long week. There isn’t much I like better than to kick back with a bottle of India Pale Ale*. Usually a fine craft brew from Stone, Dogfish Head, Victory, or Clipper City/Heavy Seas. Tonight, though, … Continue reading
Why ‘How’ Matters
“Morally adversaries isolate themselves when they visibly improve their well being to the detriment of others (i.e. their allies, the uncommitted, etc.) by violating codes of conduct or behavior patterns that they profess to uphold or others expect them to … Continue reading
No Horizons
After a decade of working at Johns Hopkins University on the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys I have left that amazing team to join another… I am happy to announce that as of mid-January I have joined Red … Continue reading