Alex, you heard from Bryan early on. He asked for your help/input. Let me clarify some points: You say you “first learned” about our stuff “a few weeks ago” as if that meant there was some secret conspiracy before that; but “a few weeks ago” is pretty much when we started working on it. FUDCON […]
The Mugshot team has been off learning what we can about all kinds of not-traditionally-open-source technologies and audiences, but recently we’ve started thinking about how to roll the knowledge back into the Linux desktop. Here’s an update (all heavily biased by my personal point of view). Tuning for an Audience From an interview with Dave […]
The Mugshot applications pages show which apps people are using most on Linux. We just updated the site and Mugshot client to add some new features: If you don’t have the app installed, and Mugshot understands your OS, there will be an “Install Now” link right on the web page. If you do have the […]
I was recently trying to use gnome-keyring and ended up having to ask Alex what was going on. Here is a short explanation so anyone else googling the subject might find it. The keyring repository maps attribute sets (like {server=yahoo.com,foo=bar}) to secrets. A secret is just a string that gets encrypted, typically it would contain […]
One of my D-Bus wishes is already squared away in the form of a viewer that comes with Qt, hopefully distributions will be shipping with this soon. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2006-11.html#15)
Roozbeh, I have no objective way to know if you or Red Hat’s lawyers have the correct interpretation of US law and Fedora’s EULA language. However, I’m tempted to take into account that 1) they are lawyers 2) they wrote the EULA in the first place 3) they talk to the FSF and OSI all […]
I’m a moron for posting on this topic, but does this make any sense? Payments are being made but nobody admits there’s any reason to make them? (Other than these 348 million reasons.) Of course, Novell doesn’t have to say there are patents. They just let Microsoft offer the customer “protection” “in case your house […]
I spent half the weekend rearranging Mugshot server code to make it easy to add new kinds of “block” (online happenings the site and client app will keep track of). I’m becoming a huge fan of Java and Eclipse server-side development. I think it gets a bad rap because of certain suckages (EJB 2, JSF, […]
John is threatening to roll the D-Bus low-level API 1.0 tarball in a couple of days. I just looked back in the ChangeLog: 2002-11-21 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> * Initial module creation Coming right up on year 4. Now that’s what I call a conservative release schedule! The last big API change I believe was: 2005-01-15 […]
Since John is about ready to release D-Bus 1.0 I thought I’d finally fix up all the warnings from Doxygen. The API reference docs were mostly complete already, but I found a surprising number of inaccuracies (some things were wildly wrong or misleading, since the library has evolved so much since they were written). I […]