Posted on 20/4/2004, 6:34 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
While using jhbuild to build GNOME is cool, some might find using GARNOME better. Dan Daggett has scripted up his experiences of building GNOME 2.6 with GARNOME.
Figured the Malaysian Linux scene needed a little boost, so #myoss is born (on irc.freenode.net). All Malaysians in the open source community should join, participate, at least for some real-time chit-chat. The list is good, but IRC just gives that further interaction. Seems there’s International Open Source Meetup Day in KL – we apparently have on in Melbourne too.
Jeremy has posted some anaconda screenshots for ms_MY – these are Malay language translations for a Fedora install. I think improvements are due, and now’s a good time to contribute.
Posted on 19/4/2004, 8:03 pm, by Colin Charles, under
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Well, it was a good thing we called OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 “Prague”, as just watching the new Mandy Moore flick, Chasing Liberty had a heck of a lot of references to Prague. More references to Italy and all though, since she ran away from Prague really quickly. Maybe rather than voting, we should just take some random movie that I like to watch and name it after that :) (since we had plenty of issues with the vote, it seemed)
Posted on 13/4/2004, 11:18 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Day started off with me looking for many Malaysian magazines, before waiting for an interview. Bought a few, had lunch, and a relatively good interview. Later, meeting with Red Hat Malaysia’s man, getting an insight into how he thinks… It’s not good. Dinner with friends later. Dinesh got into a motorcycle accident, on a superbike sorta thing – get well soon from all of us
Posted on 11/4/2004, 10:03 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
We are doomed. Well, the Linux in Malaysia push, or even the PC Gemilang support network, which should work together in tandem with others, is doomed. Granted, the sales haven’t nearly impressed anyone in the know, but we’re faced with a predicament.
Building a support network. And having a Ministry butt in, causes more grief. Why? Because this week I’m sitting in Kuala Lumpur to do just that – build a network of support. It’s been postponed you see – and mind you, people are already receiving PC Gemilangs….
Build the support network, its ready to take on anything once the sales are built. Today, folks can be buying the PC Gemilangs just for the cheap hardware, once they call the support centre, to hear a line like, “Uh, whats Linux?” Especially when Microsoft have already trained their lot since about a month ago.
Update: Edited for clarity, thanks to NSH/Simos :)
Posted on 10/4/2004, 10:56 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Because work is still done on the fedora ppc line of things, I track Sid (Debian unstable) on one of my iBook’s, to keep me relatively updated in the land outside of Fedora. Decided to dist-upgrade today, pulling in about 600MB of packages, with lots needing an update. libxft-dev gave me grief, Debian Bug reports gave me an answer – ended up just moving the file, and making it all well again. Seems dpkg-divert is borked, so it isn’t the XSF’s fault.
More grief though: acme is now something gnome requires; pbbuttonsd/gtkpbbuttons conflicts with acme, and if its installed, gnome goes away. Not fun. I like gtkpbuttons with its display of increasing or decreasing contrast/volume values, which acme doesn’t give me. Why can’t software not “conflict” with each other, and let the user decide which he/she wants to use? I’d definitely disable acme…. if I could. Ideas, anyone?
Update: Because oss “just works”, and ALSA is a whole bag of bones, getting mplayer to work is fun with a new switch: -ao oss. No alsa usage, just nice working, oss.
Posted on 7/4/2004, 2:23 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Everyone should sign this petition: Linux/Open Source Against US-AU FTA Intellectual Property Clauses. Read LA’s FTA stuff too. Call to arms by Rusty earlier today…
Yay, Fedora’s English unrolling exercise is complete. Unrelated, good reading on Internet marketing.
