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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Tetringo!

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 26, 2006

I’ve been playing a bit of Second Life lately with my girlfriend. Second Life is an interesting free (for basic usage) fully-scriptable virtual world. One of the more popular games inside of Second Life is a 2D board game called Tringo. It’s a mix between Tetris and Bingo, where you compete with others for cash. [...]

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New Server

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 26, 2006

Well, if you’re reading this, then the move of ChipX86.com to a new server has been successful. I’ve slowly been moving sites such as galago-project.org to a new GSX VM provided by a friend and co-worker of mine. While Linode is a fine service, it has become somewhat problematic for me lately, and I’ve been [...]

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Tagging? In Nautilus? *explode*

19 Comments Posted by on February 21, 2006

Check this out (mpeg4, VMware video codec). Ahh yeah. David’s putting together some awesome code for tagging functionality in nautilus using Leaftag. Hopefully we’ll get it out into a release before long.

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Taggable Desktop

19 Comments Posted by on February 15, 2006

Luis: You wanted a taggable desktop? Oh, okay. Announcing Leaftag, our desktop tagging framework. This is an evolution of the original prototype we created, originally named fstaglib (isn’t leaftag just so much better?). The main part of Leaftag is a library called (oddly enough) libleaftag, which interfaces with the tag database. It’s GObject-based, and the [...]

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I present to you, VMware Server 1.0 beta 1

33 Comments Posted by on February 6, 2006

Wow, what a ride. We just put out this morning (or late last night, depending on time zone) beta 1 of our new VMware Server product. Now you know why I’ve been saying “I’m really busy, can we discuss this later?” Yes, this is the one that you may have heard rumors about on CNET, [...]

VMware

Spice things up in your relationship with libsexy v0.1.6

2 Comments Posted by on February 5, 2006

libsexy v0.1.6 has just been released, along with libsexymm and sexy-python (mono bindings coming soon). It contains two new widgets, SexyTreeView (a GtkTreeView subclass with support for per-cell tooltips) and SexyTooltip (a tooltip that can have widgets packed into it). It also fixes a few licensing inconsistencies (the header files on a couple files were [...]

libsexy, Open Source ,

Are we assuming users are really dumb?

27 Comments Posted by on February 5, 2006

Update: This is a general criticism of modern development trends. Despite appearing on Planet GNOME, and referencing a current debate, this is not at all specific to GNOME. The point listed below was more a maintainer screw-up than anything else. It’s not a debate on good usability, because everyone has different opinions on it, none [...]

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TuxPaint for the Nokia 770 – Packages!

3 Comments Posted by on February 5, 2006

I’ve finally gotten around to putting up packages of Tux Paint for the Nokia 770. I’d love people to test the packages. I know there are some bugs and slowdowns in the software itself, but that’ll be dealt with separately.. someday You need to install SDL_ttf and SDL_image from the Maemo Library Catalog page first, [...]

Nokia 770, Open Source ,

Pretty new notifications… And a release!

19 Comments Posted by on February 4, 2006

I’ve been inspired by the December GNOME mockups. A lot of them are quite nice, and in the area of notifications, it had some good ideas on sprucing up the look and feel. So I present to you, notification-daemon v0.3.4! Along with the usual assortment of bug fixes, I’ve improved the style quite a bit. [...]

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