Summer of Code
Students! There are only a few days left (until Monday) for you to submit your Google summer of code applications. This year, I'm hoping to mentor students working on Farsight…
GUADEC 2007
Last week was GUADEC in Birmingham, it was really fun, I got to see some old friends and also meet many people that I only knew from IRC, including many…
net-im/pidgin
I just added the net-im/pidgin-2.0.0beta7 package to the portage tree. Its the continuation of net-im/gaim. Only two of the plugins that we have in portage (pidgin-rhythmbox and pidgin-extprefs) have released…
Thinkpad x60s
Collabora has provided me with a new computer: a ThinkPad x60s. Its really nice, extremely light and the battery lasts for a very long time (enough to fly to Europe!).…
32bit libraries pain
I was tired of having my Firefox not match the theme of the rest of my desktop since in GTK+ 2.10, they changed the theme format. My original plan was…
Single password entry for login/ssh/Gnome
Since I upgraded to Gnome 2.16, I had to enter my password three times on login (gdm, ssh-askpass and evolution/gnome-keyring). and there are limits to everything. Recent blog posts on…
Nerd score
Since everyone else is doing it on Planet Gentoo, I did it too.. I hoped I wouldnt be that nerdish, but I guess knowing my ip address didn't help. Go…
New multilib proposals
Today, there was a meeting of the Gentoo/AMD64 team to discuss the blubb/dang proposal to support support multilib, but the meeting didn't get much resolved since eradicator (our multilib man)…
Gentoo/AMD64, I’m there
After getting my new Athlon64 box, the first thing that I did was to install Gentoo/AMD64. And it has really improved since I left the project.. I was surprised to…
New Blog
I've decided to replace my homemade Blogus software. After looking at various blogging platforms, I've chosen WordPress. The templating stuff is well done, it only took me a few hours…