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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Armed robbery in progress

4 Comments Posted by on December 25, 2008

Our Christmas this year was very nice, with lots of good presents, time spent with family, delicious food, and an opportunity to foil an armed robbery. Yes, an armed robbery. How do I continually get myself into these situations? While heading back home from my stepdad’s parents’ house, I spotted a guy standing in a [...]

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Ubuntu and Desktop Notifications

8 Comments Posted by on December 24, 2008

This past Monday, Mark Shuttleworth wrote about their plans for an overhaul of desktop notifications (the little popup bubbles telling you someone IM’d you or there’s updates available). Many people have asked me about this, some concerned, and wanted to know what I thought. Being the maintainer of libnotify, notification-daemon and the Desktop Notifications specification, [...]

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Fixing broken key codes in VMware on Ubuntu 8.10

2 Comments Posted by on December 23, 2008

I recently upgraded a system to both Ubuntu 8.10 and VMware Workstation 6.5, and while using it, I realized a number of keys were broken. The down arrow invoked the Windows Start Menu, for instance. Pressing Alt caused the key to be stuck. I knew this stuff worked in 8.04, but it certainly wasn’t in [...]

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Twittering as Review Board Approaches 1.0

12 Comments Posted by on December 6, 2008

On the road to 1.0 We’re getting very close to feature freeze for Review Board 1.0. The last couple of major features are up for review. These consist largely of a UI rewrite that simplifies a lot of Review Board’s operations and moves us over to using jQuery. This will go in once it’s been [...]

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