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Velma is still a hottie or wireless will be the demise of brick and tile construction
I've got a wireless home network, a laptop, and a porch, but they are awkward to use together. When I'm on the porch, I have to aim my NIC at my daughter's window because the signal cannot get through the brick on the exterior of the house and the tile …
Bug #61464 with patch attached closed in as little as 23 months
I just applied a patch sent 23 months ago to fix a compilation error on Solaris. The compiler warning was obvious, the code looked wrong, and the patch looked right. It took a few minutes to check that it wouldn't compile, well I lie. Medusa doesn't compile on Sun for …
The portable GNOME
With glib and GTK at it's foundation, and mission of bring a free desktop to all UNIX, I'm still surprised when I read GNOME code that uses nothing but system libs. I made good progress on getting Medusa to compile on Solaris today. I hunted for some time looking for …
Driving on the left
A co-worker remarked that the US should agree to take up the metric system in exchange for the UK to stop driving on the left. Nice plan, but some adjustment is needed. The UK isn't exactly metric friendly. The US will use metric if Japan stops driving on the left …
ReiserFS, extended attributes, and compiling on Solaris
I read a good article (Why a New Filesystem Matters) about the importance of file metadata, and cool tricks like querying file content. In the example in the article, it is assumed you know what file your interested in. One crucial point of the article is that there is a …
Making job opportunities
I spent the weekend convincing my former boss that he can deliver a great e-commerce site built on open source software. He's used to million dollar budgets, he buys expensive hardware, server software, and over-priced frameworks. He then pays me to make things work, often at short notice, and integrate …
Updated language bindings and CSS
I made some minor text changes to the language bindings and cut the ratings. GNOME's libs are too complicated to be reduced to a simple rating for compliancy.
I created some new CSS rules that accommodate the h3 elements better. The way to get Moz-based and IE-based browsers to display …
Medusa 5.3 Issues
Checkout the reunion_medusa branch of nautilus from gnome cvs to see a some functionality already restored. Be warned though, Nautilus will go belly up if you try to close the search-list-view. There are serious issues with the complex search toolbar that must be addressed before this stage can be completed …