Gyah, ‘orrible children! You want to knock on my door and get some sweets? You really want to do that? What the hell makes you think that I should give you sweets just because it’s Halloween? This isn’t America. Stand up against the tide of Disneyfication and the intimidation of the populous by youths, and …
Monthly Archive: October 2005
Oct
31
2005
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Oct
31
2005
gnome-power-manager
Uploaded gnome-power-manager 0.2.8.1 last night.
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Oct
27
2005
Lame Duck Bush
[Ref]Harriet Miers withdraws as Supreme Court nominee after bipartisan opposition. [Ref]Grand Jury meets to decide whether to indite the White House Deputy CoS and the VP’s CoS over the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame. [Ref]Protests across the US against the war in Iraq as the US military death toll tops 2,000. …
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Oct
26
2005
Packaging
Uploaded gnome-menu-editor packages. Guess what it does. Better communication and cooperation between third party OpenSUSE packagers. Thanks Pascal. Plan to package up the Tango icon theme tomorrow.
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Oct
26
2005
Purge
Up until 10 minutes ago I had ever boxed edition of SUSE since 6.3 right through to 10.0 on one of our bookcases. In a fit of planet-saving, I’ve consigned every box (with the exception of the 10.0 one) and every book they contain (except the manual from the 6.3 box I was given when …
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Oct
26
2005
Watching DVDs on SUSE 10
Okay, so as of yesterday you can download my mplayerplug-in package to watch Quicktime or Windows Media movies in your browser. Now, how about watching DVDs? SUSE don’t supply the ability to play encrypted DVDs because of the knotty legal situation around that. Packman can’t and nor can I for the same reasons. Now, you …
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Oct
25
2005
mplayerplug-in
I’ve uploaded mplayerplug-in packages. These are normally supplied by Packman, but until they add them for 10.0, I’ve done the honours. The need the MPlayer from Packman.
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Oct
25
2005
Pub Quiz
Gyar! Failed miserably! Did the quiz at The Cadland tonight, and due to the harshness of the final round, our score was pegged back to 35 points. Going into that round we had 43. The spouses beat us. Fair play. (Tenuous link ahoy!) WINE 0.9 is out. Yay!
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Oct
25
2005
10.0-GM and other stuff
Finally got around to installing 10.0-GM (boxed version) today, and while doing so took the opportunity to redo the partition table on my laptop to make /home massive in order to have a VM for testing the Edge releases (and build packages for them). Have also got myself a new (very tiny) mouse for the …
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Oct
24
2005
PackMan mirrors and usr-local-bin
There’s been some discussion on various lists recently about PackMan being unavailable via YaST. If you’re a user of the PackMan respository, please use a mirror to make life easier for yourself and other users. In other news, seems I forgot to do some updates on usr-local-bin after uploading some new packages (the AbiWord 2.4.1 …
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