Collabora
Monday, I started working at Collabora. Its been a pretty exciting few days, I guess mostly the excitement of the new job, new people (well new person) and new office,…
mx5000tools
During the last few weeks, I've been playing with my new toy, a bluetooth Logitech Cordless Desktop MX™ 5000 Laser (could they make a shorter name?). I got it as…
Viva Sun, boo Novell & AOL
I spent my whole weekend fixing stuff in GnomeICU. It started by fixing a few bugs.. And then I decided to port the visible/invisible/ignore/online notify lists to use the newer…
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…
Keyboard with way too many keys
My keyboard has way way to many keys. Some of them are mapped into event numbers that are over 0x100 and the Xorg evdev drivers considers those to be mouse…
X.org 7.1 and the Logitech MX3100 mouse+keyboard combo
After upgrading to Xorg 7.1, my keyboard/mouse combo stopped working properly. I was using the “kbd” for the keyboard and evdev for the mouse (so I can get all 12 buttons.. yes 12 buttons). On Xorg 7.0 I had most of the stuff working, except for some buttons on the keyboard which just refused to work properly. After upgrading, all hell broke loose. And it too me a while to find out why.
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Making a torrent trackerless
I was trying to download a file via bittorrent when the tracker just died on me. So I asked the people maintaining the tracker what to do and they told…
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…
L’ordi est là !
J'ai enfin reçu mon nouvel ordinateur décrit dans le post précédent.. Il fonctionne à merveille, je compile Gentoo/AMD64 en ce moment! Un seul problème majeur, le moniteur, un LG L1910B…
Nouvel ordi
J'ai enfin craqué, j'ai commandé mon nouvel ordinateur. Je l'ai acheté chez mon ancien employeur, Cyberlogic, qui a ma grande surprise ont des prix comparables à NCIX et Tigerdirect qui…