'Other topics' Category

• Aug 26
  2005

  Zoology??

  I knew the ‘z’ probably would give them some trouble, but come on, zoology?? So, maybe it only works with your real name: oh dear, sabotage… /me goes to have a good look at his bugzilla entries ;-)

  posted in Other topics by Jasper Huijsmans

• Aug 07
  2005

  Patch for Compaq R3000 laptop

  Off topic, but since I’ve been working on this mostly for the past few weeks… I’ve prepared a workarround to an incredibly crappy harware bug that cause the timer to run 3 times too fast on some of the Compaq R3000/HP zv5000 laptops. The page is here : http://www.xfce.org/~olivier/r3000

  posted in Other topics, Xfce by Olivier

• Jul 21
  2005

  warnings (2)

  This is actually a lunar post, but this blog needs more news ;-) I think my firefox is buggier than Auke’s: # lvu compile firefox | grep -i warning | wc -l 2319 # lvu compile thunderbird | grep -i warning | wc -l 2461

  posted in Other topics by Jasper Huijsmans

• Jun 25
  2005

  It’s done

  It’s done, exams are finished. At least until august since i have to present once again those i didn’t pass during the june session, i’ll know on thursday which ones. Now i have plenty of time ahead, i have plans for Xfprint 4.4 (lprng support, better cups support, utf8 support and make a2ps optionnal); if [...]

  posted in Other topics, Xfce by Jean-François

• Jun 23
  2005

  Intelligent Design

  As seen on Planet GNOME, maybe this could be interesting for Maria van der Hoeven, our minister of education: Intelligent Design. Fairly entertaining. Don’t read it if you are easily offended about your religion and that religion happens to be Christian.

  posted in Other topics by Jasper Huijsmans

• May 27
  2005

  /me hides

  posted in Other topics by Jean-François

• May 26
  2005

  I had to prove I’m better than Jasper

  posted in Other topics by Erik

• May 26
  2005

  Is it really that bad?

  Must be because they put in those chemistry questions…

  posted in Other topics by Jasper Huijsmans

• Apr 23
  2005

  pirate name

  Now for my pirate name :) My pirate name is: Bloody Davy Kidd Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it’s the open sea. For others (the masochists), it’s the food. For you, it’s definitely the fighting. Even though you’re not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, [...]

  posted in Other topics by Danny

• Mar 15
  2005

  Ranting

  Best rant about Eugenia’s fight with GNOME devs, I’ve read so far. Better than Brians. And possibly even longer… ;-) Edit: Note that I don’t mean to say anything about what really happened and whether Eugenia or the GNOME devs or anyone else was right or wrong. This was just rather funny.

  posted in Other topics by Jasper Huijsmans