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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Transparent notification screenshots

10 Comments Posted by on February 28, 2007

In my release announcement for the new libnotify and notification-daemon, I advised that people try the new release in order to see the transparent notifications for themselves. This was obviously a mistake as many people wanted to see screenshots. Silly me. I guess I thought that this was one of those things that looked better [...]

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New libnotify and notification-daemon releases are out!

3 Comments Posted by on February 27, 2007

I’ve just put out libnotify 0.4.4 and notification-daemon 0.3.7 releases. I highly advise that everybody upgrades, as several memory leaks, rendering glitches and other bugs have been fixed. Along with these releases is some basic support for accessibility in the notifications and a nice, subtle transparent effect on the notifications when running on a system [...]

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FTD.com’s Flowers Screwup

20 Comments Posted by on February 16, 2007

I’ve been using FTD for a couple of years now with no complaints. So naturally, when it was time to buy flowers for my girlfriend for Valentines day, I went back to FTD. My girlfriend couldn’t come visit this week due to being sick, and I wanted to surprise her with a nice bouquet. The [...]

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VMware Workstation 6.0 beta 3

4 Comments Posted by on February 12, 2007

We’ve just put out VMware Workstation 6.0 beta 3. As per the ancient traditions set forth by the VMware founders, we decided to make this release awesome. I’ll go over a couple of my favorite, but for the rest, read the release notes. Record/Replay Workstation 6 beta 3 is the first release to support our [...]

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Terror on Amtrak Bus 3717

9 Comments Posted by on February 9, 2007

This past night, Thursday the 8th of February, I journeyed home to see my family by way of Amtrak. It was a typical train ride, followed by what should have been a typical bus ride for the final stretch home. Not surprisingly, the bus was delayed an hour and a half. When it finally arrived, [...]

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VMware IPO news, and 3D in VMware demoed

7 Comments Posted by on February 7, 2007

VMware IPO Wow, exciting day for VMware. For those who haven’t yet seen the news, our parent company, EMC, announced a VMware IPO. Approximately 10% of VMware is being sold. This is all news to me too, but it’s damn exciting. “VMware is one of the fastest-growing businesses in the history of the software industry. [...]

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Vista’s gremlins, now on Linux

10 Comments Posted by on February 4, 2007

Vista is an interesting operating system. They have done a number of very cool things with it, and yet it has confused and frustrated me in all new ways. I have been running Vista in a VM for a little while now. I think in many ways it is a better operating system. And there [...]

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