In a similar vein to the overreaction about Super Mario question blocks in Ravenna, Ohio, I give you today’s freak out in Boston:
Exhibit A.
Exhibit B.
Peter said that the talking head on the radio said that some group called “The Aqua Teen Hunger Force” was “claiming responsibility” for the “suspicious packages”.
Update: LOL IMHO :)
Update 2: The [...]
I came across OSDL’s Desktop Linux Survey today and was pleased to find Beagle called out among other technologies like Firefox, LTSP, and Mono. The report says, “a major factor in the adoption of Linux on the desktop is the availability of applications,” and lists Beagle as one of “several significant commercial and open [...]
Beagle 0.2.15 is out. As always, bug fixes, performance improvements, new features. We’ve got it all.
This version should be much better behaved than previous versions. We now take advantage of Linux’s SCHED_BATCH scheduling policy when available, we’ve replaced the RTF filter, we’ve moved the troublesome MS Word filter out of process for [...]
Christian: I’ve never been happy with the MIME spec either, and Ubuntu’s proposal doesn’t address my biggest issue: Sometimes you want to do something other than “open” a file.
This is a problem we ran into while doing the Beagle UI. If you have an MP3 file, you don’t necessarily want to “open” and play [...]
Today is my 7th anniversary working for Ximian/Novell. When I started here, I was 19, I had just dropped out of college, I was basically penniless, I didn’t know anybody, and I didn’t have any idea what I was doing, but I was happy. Today, I’m a little older, I still don’t have [...]
Tonight, my Ohio State Buckeyes take on Robert Love’s reviled Florida “we suck” Gators for the National Championship of the Universe in football. Robert was too much of a coward to show his face at work today, and so let’s just say he’ll be in for a rude awakening when he returns to the [...]
Richard: The problem with all these build systems is that they’re all scripting-based, which has the same downsides as automake and autoconf. Yes, the syntax of the languages might be nicer and easier to deal with — I’ll take python over m4 any day — but they’re essentially non-deterministic. IDEs can’t easily autogenerate [...]
The font rendering (in GNOME, at least) on openSUSE 10.2 is terrible out of the box on all 3 of my machines. Federico pointed me to this bug which gives some ideas on how to fix it, although it’s not clear to me how to fix it generally.
None of the presets under “Font Rendering” [...]
Kevin already mentioned it but didn’t provide a link: an excellent HOWTO on getting Beagle up and running on Ubuntu Edgy.
I just ran into a (fixed) Subversion bug when trying to merge changes onto a branch. If you run into similar problems, upgrade your svn to at least 1.4.
On the trunk, there was a ChangeLog file. That file was moved to ChangeLog.cvs, and a new ChangeLog file was created and committed to the [...]
