Is it just me, or is this quite a clever way to spend money in a recession?
Building dams and bridges is no longer work that requires thousands of relatively unskilled labourers (compared to skilled tradespeople).
You need a plan that's going to take a long time to complete, and employ a lot of people who have become recently unemployed from sectors like mining. So what do you do? Propose to dig a trench to every single house in Australia!
It's a pretty good reason to be late. You wouldn't want to discover that someone had compromised the source tree and left something nasty behind, better to be safe than sorry. It's the only time it has ever been late, and for what it's worth, it was ready to ship on time.
It should work on SPARC today. Sun have something recent in OpenSolaris, and we're about to start building GNOME CVS ontop of Solaris Express and offer accounts to developers to make sure their code works.
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The obvious solution is to install xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver. This was doable last time I checked. There are indeed more options in xscreensaver, a number of these I'd like to see available in gnome-screensaver through some method.
GPDF is included in Desktop, as is GGV, they work, but they are nothing to write home about IMHO.
Trying out Evince the other week, and I was quite impressed. It's very, very alpha so lots of stuff you would want in a document viewer just isn't there yet, BUT IT VIEWED DOCUMENTS!
It managed to deal with any PDF I threw at it. It will also deal (or so I am told) with PostScript, DeVice Independant files and I'm sure eventually many other document formats.
I'm not going to make the mistake of getting in trouble for getting/.ed again. The maxclients on that server has been set down quite low, I've added a redirect to offload to offload to GNOME's webserver.
If someone could update the story URL, that would be great;)
This is surprisingly easy, and surprisingly undocumented.
Open folder with fonts you want to install in Nautilus, open ~/.fonts directory, drag from one to the other. Fonts should now appear in fonts://. Ideally you should just be able to drag them to fonts:// but last time I tried this was broken, it might be fixed now.
Linus attended last year, as an ordinary delegate. He did a 45 minute QA, and danced around in a penguin suit. That was it. He didn't do a keynote, and he attempted to be treated as an ordinary developer. That said, he still had a trail of fanboys. Although not an organiser this year, I feel I'm going to have to bring a firearm. Nothing else is likely to keep the fanboys at bay.
If people want to fanboy, do it over Rusty Russell. He just laps it up;)
At a recent QA, Linus was asked a question as to what he thought on IA64. He went on to tell a story about developers of the processor asking him if he could see a use for some of it's features. He replied with "errr, no!".
From an organisers perspective, I think linux.conf.au went off really well.
The only disappointing thing from my corner of the conference was that I didn't get a chance to see a lot of talks.
If you're really interested in coming to linux.conf.au next year (there isn't a URL yet afaik), then why not come join us on IRC. The channel for the conference past is #lca2003, and the channel in creation is #linux.conf.au, both of these on freenode (irc.freenode.net).
As an organiser of the now-past linux.conf.au. I can say, Yes it was stupid to have them scheduled at the same time. We had our conference scheduled quite a bit of time in advance of LinuxWorld, but LinuxWorld was scheduled at the same time anyway. It cost us getting Maddog Hall, and it cost LinuxWorld a lot of very cool people, but you can find out about them on your own.
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Building more dams would not actually increase the amount of available water. The dams are all under-full.
Instead other methods must be employed to secure Australia's water future.
Is it just me, or is this quite a clever way to spend money in a recession?
Building dams and bridges is no longer work that requires thousands of relatively unskilled labourers (compared to skilled tradespeople).
You need a plan that's going to take a long time to complete, and employ a lot of people who have become recently unemployed from sectors like mining. So what do you do? Propose to dig a trench to every single house in Australia!
Brilliant!
Some pretty serious research is going into these areas, (eg. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_information_ret rieval), but very few practical results so far.
It's a pretty good reason to be late. You wouldn't want to discover that someone had compromised the source tree and left something nasty behind, better to be safe than sorry. It's the only time it has ever been late, and for what it's worth, it was ready to ship on time.
They do, unless someone has broken it again. Both drag'n'drop and clipboarding are handled by X.
It should work on SPARC today. Sun have something recent in OpenSolaris, and we're about to start building GNOME CVS ontop of Solaris Express and offer accounts to developers to make sure their code works.
The obvious solution is to install xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver. This was doable last time I checked. There are indeed more options in xscreensaver, a number of these I'd like to see available in gnome-screensaver through some method.
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The application font is Bitstream Vera Sans 9.
The window title font is Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 10.
GPDF is included in Desktop, as is GGV, they work, but they are nothing to write home about IMHO.
Trying out Evince the other week, and I was quite impressed. It's very, very alpha so lots of stuff you would want in a document viewer just isn't there yet, BUT IT VIEWED DOCUMENTS!
It managed to deal with any PDF I threw at it. It will also deal (or so I am told) with PostScript, DeVice Independant files and I'm sure eventually many other document formats.
It will release with GNOME 2.8 on the 15th of September. It's now a GNOME module.
It would seem that LDAP broke for a while.
It was working, and now has stopped... this is most concerning, the files are still there.
I'm not going to make the mistake of getting in trouble for getting /.ed again. The maxclients on that server has been set down quite low, I've added a redirect to offload to offload to GNOME's webserver.
;)
If someone could update the story URL, that would be great
http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-8/
This is surprisingly easy, and surprisingly undocumented.
Open folder with fonts you want to install in Nautilus, open ~/.fonts directory, drag from one to the other. Fonts should now appear in fonts://. Ideally you should just be able to drag them to fonts:// but last time I tried this was broken, it might be fixed now.
(This is not a new feature)
Linus attended last year, as an ordinary delegate. He did a 45 minute QA, and danced around in a penguin suit. That was it.
;)
He didn't do a keynote, and he attempted to be treated as an ordinary developer. That said, he still had a trail of fanboys.
Although not an organiser this year, I feel I'm going to have to bring a firearm. Nothing else is likely to keep the fanboys at bay.
If people want to fanboy, do it over Rusty Russell. He just laps it up
Several local geek houses ended up at the first screening. There are mixed emotions about the film.
Several people I know really didn't like it.
Personally, I think it had some cute moments. Although it read like an anime.
At a recent QA, Linus was asked a question as to what he thought on IA64. He went on to tell a story about developers of the processor asking him if he could see a use for some of it's features. He replied with "errr, no!".
From an organisers perspective, I think linux.conf.au went off really well.
The only disappointing thing from my corner of the conference was that I didn't get a chance to see a lot of talks.
If you're really interested in coming to linux.conf.au next year (there isn't a URL yet afaik), then why not come join us on IRC. The channel for the conference past is #lca2003, and the channel in creation is #linux.conf.au, both of these on freenode (irc.freenode.net).
As an organiser of the now-past linux.conf.au. I can say, Yes it was stupid to have them scheduled at the same time. We had our conference scheduled quite a bit of time in advance of LinuxWorld, but LinuxWorld was scheduled at the same time anyway.
It cost us getting Maddog Hall, and it cost LinuxWorld a lot of very cool people, but you can find out about them on your own.
Believe it or not, for us in Au, April fools is looooooooong over.
Still, keep em coming, the double takes that are required are somewhat amusing.
--proXy
Just because there are two people waiting to download it off the internet already, doesn't mean their waiting in line.
And does it have the option of an optical 100MB switch? Or perhaps an interface to isolinear chips?
If Apple made space suits, they'd only come in very untasteful, bright colours