Monthly Archive: October 2006

Oct
30
2006

10.2 Beta1

I installed 10.2 Beta1 yesterday and I have to say I think this is going to be a really good distro when it’s finished. In the meantime, I’ve filed seven bugs so far today: 216129 216313 216317 216319 216328 216352 216353 One gripe I have, and I’ll raise this on a list because it’s not …

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Oct
28
2006

YouTube usable at last!

Finally got around to installing the Flash 9 Beta and sure enough, YouTube is now usable, video and audio in sync. This means that you can now enjoy this video of Lex leading worship at Week A this year. The reason I chose this video is that at 00:30 or so in it, you can …

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Oct
28
2006

Firefox more popular than IE among BBC readers

Yes, I know it’s entirely unscientific but among those people who read the technology section of BBC News Online and could be bothered to vote, Firefox is the more popular browser. What surprised me was the number of people who said they use both.

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Oct
27
2006

Update

Update to my earlier post… It’s not just SSH I can’t do, it seems the only open ports here are 80 and 443. Current repository status: mostly good. Things that require PyGTK on Factory are blocking on bug #214046 at the moment – that’s beagle and gimp-unstable.

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Oct
27
2006

Friday

Spent the evening with Carole and Andrew last night. Was just lovely to see them and the food was excellent. I’m posting this from Presence on Watford High Street, a cracking shop and coffee house where a lot of my friends work and which provides free wi-fi. Only thing is I don’t seem to be …

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Oct
18
2006

Blog of Britain

So, what did I do yesterday? Well, I had a couple of hours of Acts and Mission at college and finished the day with a research induction session looking toward dissertations and all that malarky. In the evening, we watched some telly and I ‘cashed’ in a play money Hold’em tourney on PokerStars. Think by …

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Oct
17
2006

A [blog] day in the life of a nation

[Ref] This evening, I shall post an entry which will discuss what I’ve done today and then I’ll add it to the blog of Britain. If you’re in Britain, I suggest you do the same. Who knows what future generations will make of it, but I bet they won’t really care all that much.

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Oct
17
2006

Justin’s palm

[Ref] Justin: What model of Palm and what method are you using to blog from it? I occasionally SSH from my LifeDrive to my web server and vi myself a blog entry.

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Oct
13
2006

Compositing manager in Metacity

A while ago there was some discussion on the Factory list about the compositing manager in Metacity. I’ve built packages that enable this (and the required package libcm), which intrepid testers can grab from the Factory section of my repository. When I next deal with mail at home, I’ll post the same message on the …

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Oct
01
2006

Build Service repo changes

Have removed the multisync-gui package from my repository, it’s been moved into the main OpenSync repo and at some point may well replace the current FACTORY package. The result of this is that my repo no longer depends on the OpenSync package.

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