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Interrogation with Apport hooks – Qt Included
Tue, 06/09/2009 - 00:12 | by nixternalEarlier today my buddy Martin Pitt blogged about how he needed a Qt developer to work on implementing the ui_question_choice() dialog. I looked through the code a bit this morning, and needed a little help right off the bat getting the GTK version running. One little thing I missed a bug report and Martin helped get it up and running. So as the day went on, storms came through, and for some reason I get in this storm hunter mode and nothing else gets done.
GPG Transitioning
Fri, 06/05/2009 - 23:52 | by nixternalYay, I am doing the transitioning too. So w/o further ado, welcome my new GPG key:
Apt URL Part Two
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 18:55 | by nixternalOK, so after going through comments on my previous post about Apt URL it has become obvious to me. Apt URL is a band aid more than it is a way for people to easily distribute software. Is this a bad thing? No, not in my personal opinion. It seems the main arguments I received in the post, and especially on IRC (thanks to all of you who messaged me bitching me out, that rocks!) as as follows:
My thoughts about Apt URL
Mon, 06/01/2009 - 20:49 | by nixternal- Everything you need comes on one CD
- Ubuntu is designed with security in mind
Both of the above lines were taken from the What is Ubuntu? page on the Ubuntu website. If this is still true, then we don’t need Apt URL do we? If it isn’t true, and we do in fact need something like Apt URL, shouldn’t these 2 lines be removed from the website?
Konsole Fonts
Fri, 05/15/2009 - 11:40 | by nixternalI have been using urxvt forever, and I have always loved using my Artwiz fonts with it. In Jaunty for some reason, getting the Artwiz fonts working correctly and without hogging resources was a bit of a pain. So I have decided to go back to the KDE terminal, Konsole, and actually found a really great font in the Ubuntu repositories. The name of the font is ttf-inconsolata. It is a really nice small font in Konsole and if you are editing code in Vim or Emacs, it is really nice.
Ubuntu Ichiban
Thu, 05/14/2009 - 19:35 | by nixternalI guess I should start off with some sort of disclaimer. What you are about to read is probably useless, my opinion, not the opinions of Ubuntu and Canonical, and probably not even worth 2 cents.
Who cares? Really? All of this complaining is destructive, interruptive, and really annoying. So now that I have said my 2 cents, let me be destructive, interruptive,a nd really annoying as well as elaborate a bit.
Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 1 Released
Thu, 05/14/2009 - 11:20 | by nixternalJust a quick note letting you all know that Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 1 has been released. If you are looking to contribute to an open source project, there is no better time than now. The Kubuntu team is looking for a few good contributors. We can always use supporters, documentation writers, packagers, developers, translators and more! If you are interested in contributing, I urge you to join #kubuntu-devel on irc.freenode.net.
Old Docs
Sun, 05/10/2009 - 00:06 | by nixternalWow, I just got the itch tonight to work on some documentation for KDE. I went through KHelpCenter to look at docs and I noticed the 2 big doc sections were badly out of date. KHelpCenter and the User Guide haven’t been touched in ages, well at least until tonight. I have fully updated the KHelpCenter Welcome documentation and I am planning on fixing up the User Guide. I am actually scared of the User Guide as it is huge.
The Real Story About the War in Gaza (aka “Cast Lead”)
Mon, 01/19/2009 - 01:06 | by mishehuA friend of mine forwarded me this document that was written so well that I can barely add anything to it. Thanks to Haim Harari for writing this. It is obvious that a lot of time and thought went into it. He says pretty much everything that I would say about the whole issue.
