Lee on February 20th, 2009

Initially, I was skeptical about the design, but it’s actually a pretty nice little tool. When someone wants to borrow a browser, being able to just hit guest, let them play on their own desktop, log them out, and return to what you were doing, is very handy.

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Lee on February 19th, 2009

So I upgraded to ext4 with jaunty on my desktop lately. I needed the 2.6.28 kernel to get my tv card (hvr-3000) working, and since ext4dev had been retagged as ext4, it seemed a good time.
All in all, ext4 has been nice so far, but over about three weeks of use, I’ve gotten “no [...]

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Lee on February 19th, 2009

I received an SVGSlice bug report today. I haven’t actually looked at SVGSlice in ages.
So I’ve just posted SVGSlice 0.15 to launchpad. Mostly it just updates the code to work with a SAX namespace change (sax.saxutils.DefaultHandler -> sax.handler.ContentHandler), and does a few other small anti-bitrot cleanups. Unfortunately there’s a bug in Jaunty’s [...]

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Lee on February 17th, 2009

Scott posted that Git sucks, citing the yak-shaving necessary just to push a branch to another host for publication, and the horrible documentation that doesn’t actually explain the most basic things, except using Git’s own internal jargon. I have to agree with him. I got over all that though, and used it a fair bit, mostly because I loved the speed of Git. There are some things one just can’t get over so easily though, namely having your work hosed.

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Lee on February 10th, 2009

Alexander Larsson has posted about Removing flicker from GTK+ using client-side windows. It all sounds great, as far as it goes. I’m just wondering what this means for accessibility though. My understanding was that a lot of accessibility APIs require the formal window definitions to identify widgets etc. Maybe that’s just [...]

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