'Other topics' Category
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Mar 09
2005Ha! Pirates.
Can’t stay behind now, can I? Gotta keep with the theme of the week… My pirate name is: Captain James Kidd Even though there’s no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you’re the one in charge. Even though you’re not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, [...]
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Mar 08
2005Software patents :(
Quick summary: The (elected) European Parliament is opposed A large fraction of the (elected) national parliaments is opposed Danmark has officially requested the subject to be changed to a B-item (i.e. further discussion needed) The Danish request had support from several other representatives in the counsel What to do, what to do? The (non-elected) European [...]
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Dec 07
2004An evil goblin, maybe?
I usually don’t post here, but this blog is too quiet these days. The calm before the 4.2 storm, maybe? So… let’s write some pointless chatters. First, I’m sure there is an evil goblin in my house. I’ve lost two of my three computers in a month, including the laptop (fried CPU and hard-drive failure), [...]
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Nov 12
2004Ask a silly question…
In the process of putting off most of my work until next week, I decided to have some fun with this quiz:"Which OS are you?". Not too bad, I think:
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Sep 03
2004Sofar for president
If I were American I’d vote for sofar. He’s much better at fixing things than any of the other candidates. You want proof? This blog is working again, isn’t it? Thanks to sofar!
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Jul 26
2004xfmusic4, goneme
those of you following the xfce4-dev mailing list know that i’ve been working on a lightweight music player, which i’m calling xfmusic4. i’ve made a couple alpha releases, and put up a public CVS repository. more info can be found on the project page. apparently a critic of gnome has decided to put his money [...]
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Jun 28
2004WM eye candy
i was poking about on slashdot, and noticed an article about sun’s “looking glass” window manager. it renders windows in 3D, presumably using your hardware’s 3D acceleration (i hope). they have some screenshots up, and they’re pretty nifty. i can’t say anything about how functional that kind of stuff is without actually trying it, but [...]
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Jun 20
2004Menu shadow effect for gtk+-2.4.3
Hey, I took some time to prepare RPM packages and pre-patched source archives of gtk+-2.4.3 with the menu shadow patch applied (the patch remains the same and applies fine on gtk+-2.4.3) Updates from the usual xfce page or from Sourceforge.
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Jun 20
2004Add some noise to this blog
I saw this on Planet Gnome: a very interesting read about copyright and DRM; a guy from EFF gives a talk for Microsoft to explain why DRM is bad for bussiness and society. Also, we need more off-topic (non-xfce) blog entries. Everyone else has them ;-)
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May 30
2004state of free software
Just a small observation. I just read this message. It used to be the case that a holiday would be a good opportunity to hold a meeting of free software developers; now apparently it is a reason to postpone it. The times are changing it seems.