FOSDEM 2008
As part of a sad trend that pulls me away from my healthy travel habits, I just booked plane tickets to Brussels for February 22nd. Note this is 1.5 months of …
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GNOME 2.20 for Debian
My lack of posts lately left Planet readers without yet another “yay, GNOME 2.20 released” post. I’m sure nobody missed it. However, I can report …
Ten years of GNOME
Ten years ago, Miguel de Icaza announced the “GNU Network Object Model Environment” project, an attempt to fix a dependency on a non-free library for free …
I feel bad
I’ve cursed myself quite a bit during the last two or three weeks, because there probably are no good excuses for not attending DebConf this year, …
Google shuts down the Google Translation program
Via Quico Llach’s blog, I just learned about Google no longer hiring independent translators to work on their many web applications. Since Quico was hired …
Congratulations to the Catalan Ubuntu LoCo team
On this happy day, there’s some big news coming from the Ubuntu Catalan Community. Today’s Community Council meeting approved the Catalan LoCo team, …
Data disaster on pusa
pusa, a server I administer at uni, suffered a massive data accident on Wednesday. When I went to see why it didn’t come up from a reboot on Friday, I …
Debian's GNOME 2.18: are we there yet?
The short answer is no, but as our status page easily reflects, there has been lots of work going on during the last two weeks, once etch’s release …
The big Debian news I missed last weekend
I’ve been a bit offline during the last two weeks due to being in the middle of a ISP switch at home, which took me offline for a longer time than …
Tasques, però en català
So Ross was offering fame and glory to whoever would add i18n support to his nice little Tasks program. Tasks seems like something I’ve been looking for …