More work on GNOME:UNSTABLE this morning, resulting in fewer packages now failing to build. This, my friends, is a good thing. Lunch at our functional local, the Cadland which was lovely. Wrangling with the iPod and Banshee this afternoon. This is truly weird – it works fine on my laptop but on Amanda’s desktop, it …

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Man, Banshee rocks my socks in a box by the docks. Amanda bought herself an iPod today (Nano, 4G) and to configure it in the Less Free OSTM is a right pain – plug it in, wait for ages while it gets detected and some software installed then … … … yes, you guessed it …

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Stanislav and I have been blitzing GNOME:UNSTABLE today and we’re getting closer to having a full package set building with /usr as prefix and /etc as sysconfdir. One source of annoyance to me is that the Qt4 bindings for poppler currently won’t build on x86_64 because of hard-coded paths in configure. Reckon I’m going to …

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Found in a drawer today while looking for something completely different … Left: Red Hat Linux 4.0; Right: SuSE Linux 6.3 Red Hat 4.0 is, I think, the oldest version of Linux for which I own media. SuSE 6.3 (correct capitalisation for that version) was the first version of [open]SUSE I used. I was given …

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Well, this is a screencast of me using Beryl on openSUSE Factory with some effects enabled. Let me talk you through them … This is creating and closing a window with the Fire/Burn effect. This is minimising and unminimising a window using the Magic Lamp effect. This is fading and unfading a window using an …

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Well, like Justin, I’m going to try to get back into the habit of blogging more regularly. I’ve got really bad at keeping this up to date, so a new leaf needs to be turned over. The ironic thing is that quite often something will be in the news and I’ll plan to post something …

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A day spent mostly watching Christmas present DVDs. Watched Groundhog Day this afternoon. Incredibly, I’d never seen it before. For that reason, Amanda bought it for me – loved it! Bill Murray was just sublime, as always. Andie MacDowell gave what I consider to be her best performance (don’t even mention that British movie) in …

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Well it may be Christmas Day (and indeed, it is) but I’ve done a bit of openSUSE work anyway: Updated the laptop to the latest Factory, all went smoothly. I’ve not mentioned it here, but my home repo contains a testing package called gaim-unstable – you can probably guess what it is. Well, today I …

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From the currently growing Ogley clan, to all readers of my blog, a very happy Incarnation-tide. R.I.P. James Brown. Rowan seeks to keep Israel-Palestine high on the agenda.

Well, my openSUSE 10.2 box arrived, and I’ve installed it on Amanda’s machine. Have to say it’s a very easy install. The one annoyance I had was that, because I was doing a DVD install, I was unable to add network based add-on products (such as Build Service repos). This was basically down to the …

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