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Linux and Tweeters and Blogs (Oh My!)

segphault — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:33:00 -0400

This article was written by Jim Kobylecky, who I had the great pleasure of meeting at Intel's TBB announcement party. As the conversation at the dinner table turned to blogging and Twitter, poor Jim had great difficulty keeping up. His honest admission of confusion and intelligent questions served as a reminder of how learning barriers make these technologies I take for granted inaccessible to certain audiences. It's a problem that definitely needs to be resolved. Tagged by segphault under blogging,

Review Board code review system

segphault — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:44:00 -0400

"We built a code review system called Review Board. Like most projects, it started out simple, but grew to be pretty powerful and useful quickly. It was designed to automate and simplify the process of creating review requests and actually reviewing code." Tagged by segphault under software, development,

Best D-Bus Practices

segphault — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:41:00 -0400

"Using various D-Bus APIs I've noticed all kinds of interesting ideas for how to design them. You should avoid many of these ideas." Tagged by segphault under gnome, dbus, programming,

VMware Workstation 6.0 released

segphault — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:35:00 -0400

VMware developer Christian Hammond provides a nice overview of new features in Workstation 6 Tagged by segphault under software, vmware, virtualization,

Mark Shuttleworth apologizes for OpenSUSE invitation

segphault — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:39:00 -0500

Mark Shuttleworth has < http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/82 apologized > for his ill-conceived attempt to recruit developers from the OpenSUSE project. Tagged by segphault under Ubuntu, Shuttleworth,

Buzztard 0.1 released

segphault — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:31:00 -0500

< http://www.buzztard.org Buzztard > 0.1 has been < http://www.advogato.org/person/ensonic/diary.html?start=52 released >. Buzztard is a modular music production environment for Linux. Tagged by segphault under gstreamer, GNOME, music, software,

Firefox 2.0 Tango theme

segphault — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:27:00 -0500

Garret LeSage is creating a < http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2006/11/02/firefox-20-fitting-in/ Tango theme > for Firefox 2.0. It's definitely the best Tango theme I have seen so far for Firefox 2.0. In addition to providing support for Tango icons, it also removes the gradients from tabs and makes several other subtle aesthetic adjustments that improve visual integration with the GNOME environment. Tagged by segphault under Firefox, themes, tango,

Agile programming considered (mostly) harmful

segphault — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:21:00 -0400

Former Amazon.com developer Steve Yegge has written an excellent < http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html blog entry > about the deficiencies of the agile programming meme. Tagged by segphault under development,

Mark Shuttleworth talks about Ubuntu and Debian

segphault — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:33:00 -0400

In response to recent concerns expressed by Matthew Garret, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has written an insightful about the relationship between Ubuntu and Debian. Tagged by segphault under Ubuntu, Debian,

Include inline C code in Ruby

segphault — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:09:00 -0400

Tagged by segphault under Ruby, C, development, blog,

The Standards Hammer

segphault — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:44:00 -0400

John Palmieri wrote a really excellent < http://www.j5live.com/?p=226 blog entry > about FDO and the characteristics of a good standard. Tagged by segphault under

Beagle FUSE filesystem

segphault — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:10:00 -0400

Robert Love has < http://rlove.org/log/2006070601 created > a FUSE extension that makes it possible to mount a live Beagle query on the local filesystem. The mount contains symlinks to files that match the query parameters, and the contents are updated as Beagle updates the query response. If you totally dig FUSE like I do, be sure to check out the slides for Robert's < http://rlove.org/talks/guadec_rlove_fuse_2006.odp FUSE talk > from GUADEC. Tagged by segphault under software, beagle,

Blog entry about GNOME automation framework

segphault — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:55:00 -0400

Rodrigo Moya has < http://blogs.gnome.org/view/rodrigo/2006/07/04/0 started working > on an automation framework for GNOME called Automato. < http://sflux.sourceforge.net/ S-Flux > could end up being the basis for the GUI. The concept is reminiscent of Apple's Automator. Although I really like the concept behind Apple's Automator, the implementation is extremely poor, and it is very difficult to do anything productive with it. With Automato, Rodrigo could potentially build something significantly better. For those that are interested in task-oriented automation interfaces, there is a really nifty and innovative KDE tool called < http://onefinger.sourceforge.net/ OneFinger > that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. Tagged by segphault under GNOME, software,

Blog entry about the future of KOffice

segphault — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:54:00 -0400

There is an interesting < http://dot.kde.org/1149518002/ blog entry > at DKO about the future of KOffice. Tagged by segphault under KDE, software,

Blog entry about GNOME power management

segphault — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:43:00 -0400

Richard Hughes wrote a very informative < http://hughsient.livejournal.com/764.html blog entry > about the new FreeDesktop.org power management architecture for Linux. Tagged by segphault under GNOME, development,