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I’m fixing stuff so you can have your distro ship drapes

That’s right, after I learned that drapes is shipped by default in Foresight (thanks for the heads up Jorge) I got really motivated to fix any kind of breakage/bugs in drapes. So now I’m on a war path to improve drapes (mostly the inner workings)…
I’m doing this so you the user can campaign your distro [...]

Drapes 0.5.1 out real soon now (TM)

That’s right, I’ve quite a few changes to drapes since I released 0.5.0:

I think i finally fixed the fucking bug where it would magically switch to monitoring / for wallpaper changes automatically.
In the process of fixing the above I rewrote how settings work, which are now more robust. Re-factored a lot of old crap code.
I [...]

Drapes work

Since I’ve released drapes 0.5.0 there were a few issues that poppep up that I actually thought were solved… So I’m working on fixing the issues with permanent fixes. In the process the code base code quality has improved quite a lot (since I’m not interested in hacks anymore).
One important change pending is that I [...]

Tim Ryan says it like it is

This Congressman from Ohio really sums everything up, and dosen’t hold back. For the interested here’s a link.

LTSP ftw, SunRay ftl

Really the title says it all. For a while now my friends at the school of computer science & engineering at Oakland have been struggling with this monstrosity known as the Sunray server software. The sunrays existed there for a long time as think clients for the Solaris machines. At some point Jorge got hired [...]

Lunix printer

So I have this draft of an blog entry sitting in my wordpress for ages… One time i distracted and never finished it. But today people were talking about printing in #linux and decided I’d share a good overall linux/windows/OSX printer with a laser beam on it’s freaking head.
My friends always complain how much printing [...]

I had a sandwich today.

Dear lord why thy spam me

In a interesting development I’ve gotten 6 religious spam messages in my gmail Inbox so far today (it’s 3:39 now). All of them have a subject of BLESS YOU… and the body says something about the Lord, didn’t really read them. You figure that by marking the first 5 messages as spam gmail would mark [...]

Don’t update to (ubuntu) edgy quite yet…

… that is, if your have a laptop. I’ve been running edgy almost since it was branched, today I’ve noticed that my laptop goes thought battery power like Jorge through beer. Then I thought about it and I did notice a couple times over the past two weeks that my laptops battery doesn’t last as [...]

Message in a bottle

Websites please stop tryingly to resize my Firefox windows, when being opened in a tab.
Pls; Ok, Thx.