Posted on 18/6/2004, 8:41 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Watched Mr. & Mrs. Loving which is a great show about two childhood friends, from different ethnic backgrounds, that just want to be together. Not a soppy love story, but definitely one that hits you close.
- Been fiddling with the Planet’s a bit – Fedora People should be head complete, Planet OOo has had some new faces, and I think Planet Freedesktop.org will have faces too, soon.
- Seems POP’ing your GMail account can happen, but software looks Windows-only. But with its advent, I see a lot more postings on fedora-list for instance, from developers. Sweet.
- Profiting from GNOME, is the way to go. With Fedora as its base OS, its definitely moving towards a GNOME OS.
- How to choose a good instructional book about OpenOffice.org – Nice resource, I hope in due time, there’ll be another available. I’ve been looking for ideas on how to cash in on stuff like training notes, and I think I possibly found it.
- Republic is really an ascii2ooo converter – converts ASCII flatfiles to OOo Spreadsheets.
Posted on 17/6/2004, 4:58 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
That’s not Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), which is what I thought of initially – its the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America! Good thing I clicked the link; was thinking it was some Microsoft ad on yet another Linux site – gnomefiles.org.
Speaking of accessibility, here’s a post by Bill about how GTK+ accessibility is still a little lacking in the Win32 environment. How do we successfully build a cross-platform accessible bit of software? GTK+ has been the closest to being something useful…
Posted on 11/6/2004, 12:38 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Fedora News Updates #13 is out. By far, the largest ever (not that this is the first time its a three-week summary). 18901 bytes. It’s getting mighty hard to write it with so many posts – start contributing folk, especially trawl fedora-list…
Fragmenting the Fedora documentation isn’t a good idea – we need a FreeBSD handbook or a Gentoo manual style of documents. Useful, something end-users, and advanced developers can always depend on, reliable, and consistient. A grand plan at some stage will be to move things like the Fedora unofficial FAQ/newbie install guide over to some Fedora docs project site. Currently we have many editors, but not many things to edit :( Is it learning DocBook XML that stops many? Or is it CVS that scares you? I’ve begun hanging out at #fedora-docs, though hardly much gets said there…
How about this: I got a little “urgent” e-mail, with a phone number, asking me to call them, so that their OpenOffice.org woes would go away. Anyone else gotten requests like this?
Posted on 9/6/2004, 12:13 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Trawled Bugzilla today, mainly poking at gpdf/openoffice, so there was a lot of upstream stuff there too. Annoyed as to why Rhytmbox only works using “osssink” rather than “alsasink” – gstreamer bug, wish #121671 gets released as an update soon (since Rhythmbox will be preferred to XMMS soon).
I’ve started using gvim again – long forgotten software, and for once, I don’t have a gnome-terminal open! vim-X11 provides it (on Fedora), and “set shell=/bin/sh” fixes my custom .bashrc.
Posted on 7/6/2004, 12:44 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Well, TechPreview 4 is out, for OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. It runs like a charm, in fact I used it for my AUSOM talk. Kevin Hendricks basically fixed the “it mucks up my directory permissions” bug #28606.
Seems there are a few folk there using it too – good stuff. According to Bob Kerr, its the number 2 download at the Apple website. Definitely good news for us. And I’m quite sure we’re approaching 1.1.2 as an “official” release soon, we just have a few more fixes to integrate…
Update: Usual download location, and bits of the to-do list.
Posted on 6/6/2004, 2:20 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Its common in many circles to say, hire based on the Google test for instance. But then there are two sides to the coin, ‘eh? Question can be asked, Google test may be applied, but personal attacks have an effect on productivity. aoliva says it best: “Individual and team morales, and respect for co-workers, are also important for productivity.”
No point defending yourself to ad hominem attacks either. Best to move on, and do what you do best.
