http://robot101.net The personal blog of Robert McQueen Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:38:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first Telepathy session session on Saturday evening at the Boston GNOME Summit was very much of a Q&A where myself and Will answered various technical and roadmap issues from a handful of developers and downstream distributors. It showed me that there's a fair amount of roadmap information we should ... http://robot101.net/2009/10/14/telepathy-qa/ I spent this weekend in Boston for the annual GNOME summit. I really enjoyed it this year, although there were fewer attendees than previously it felt very focussed and productive. There's some cool stuff going on, and it's always great to catch up with all of the usual free software ... http://robot101.net/2009/10/14/boston-gnome-summit-200/ If Collabora has seemed quiet recently, it's because we've been slaving away on various parts of a really awesome project, which we can finally start talking about. Maemo 5 is coming! \o\ \o/ /o/ http://robot101.net/2009/08/27/todays-the-day/ Flyby blog entry. Been an awesome week, hope people enjoyed the Collabora party last night. Getting to the GNOME Shell BOF this morning was a real struggle, but I really like the way its going. We've scheduled an Empathy BOF for Friday at 15:45 in room 2-4, hoping to talk ... http://robot101.net/2009/07/09/empathy-telepathy-bof-at-gcds/ I've been very impressed several times in the past few months when I've discovered awesome new top-like utilities. I'm probably being slow on the uptake and everyone else but me knows about these, but in case its not just me thats been stuck in the '70s: htop A much-needed refresh of oldschool ... http://robot101.net/2009/03/13/top-acts/ "... all programs that interact with e-mail are broken in one way or another. Please be careful." - Lars Wirzenius I seem to have a cunning knack of finding problems with configuring server software, particularly involving e-mail, where a) I can't find answers in Google, b) most people I go and ... http://robot101.net/2009/03/06/local-mail/ It's the last day of the most awesome linux.conf.au 2009 conference in Hobart, Tasmania. I've just witnessed the a room full of 500 people sit with baited breath as Linus wielded a set of clippers to shave Bdale Garbee's beard, followed by Bdale (with a razor with 3 more blades ... http://robot101.net/2009/01/23/auctions-beards-conferences-and-devils/ (Apologies in advance for the shameless plug.) It's possibly a little late to talk about new year's resolutions, but if anyone is a Facebook user and has given up smoking (or plans to), you might be interested in Quitclock. My brother Alastair is a health editor for the Bupa private health ... http://robot101.net/2009/01/21/quitclock/ You know it's time to call it a day and write your talk tomorrow when... I just upgraded Gtk+, Cairo and Pango to the versions in Debian experimental while I was upgrading some Telepathy packages, and got this the next time I loaded OO.o. Magic. But seriously, anyone got any ideas ... http://robot101.net/2009/01/21/my-new-font-rendering-technique-is-unstoppable/ For everyone at GUADEC, there's a boat party sponsored by Collabora this evening. Our sponsorship was confirmed after the program was printed so it's listed anonymously, but it's mostly sponsored by Collabora, of course with huge thanks to Baris and his team for the organisation, and local sponsors for food ... http://robot101.net/2008/07/10/guadec-telepathy-boat-party/