Planet SoC

personal
20:35 -0400

We got back from our travels on Thursday. New York was
crowded, busy, noisy,… While we were there, we (in semi-random order):

personal
17:33 -0400

The past week has been fairly crazy. And the next couple of weeks will be
somewhat busy too due to job interviews.

Interviews so far:

personal, technical, gnustep, gsoc
16:05 -0400

Recent window managers have a feature called “focus stealing prevention”, which
is wonderful in theory. But in practice… well, do a Google search, and see
how many people don’t like it. The problem is that it’s a whole bunch of
guesswork, and so it may cause problems when it guesses wrong.

personal, technical, gnustep, gsoc
16:05 -0400

Recent window managers have a feature called “focus stealing prevention”, which
is wonderful in theory. But in practice… well, do a Google search, and see
how many people don’t like it. The problem is that it’s a whole bunch of
guesswork, and so it may cause problems when it guesses wrong.

personal, technical, website
08:39 -0400

As of some time last week, my server got IPv6 connectivity via a
SixXS tunnel. Now my website, email, Jabber,
etc. are all accessible via both old-and-gungy IPv4, and shiny-new IPv6. What
does this mean? Right now, not a whole lot, since hardly anyone is using
IPv6. But it does allow me to test out IPv6, seeing as IPv4 will be running
out of addresses in a few years.

technical, debian, gnustep
20:25 -0400

Finally, after prodding the release managers, we’ve received the
go ahead to
start the GNUstep transition. GNUstep gui is still
stuck in the NEW queue,
after originally being REJECTED due to a
silly licensing issue.
So, hopefully the Debian ftp-masters will ACCEPT gnustep-gui soon, all the
GNUstep packages will get rebuilt quickly, and maybe we’ll have a GNUstep
release in Lenny that’s less than a year old. <crosses fingers> The freeze for

technical, debian, gnustep
20:25 -0400

Finally, after prodding the release managers, we’ve received the
go ahead to
start the GNUstep transition. GNUstep gui is still
stuck in the NEW queue,
after originally being REJECTED due to a
silly licensing issue.
So, hopefully the Debian ftp-masters will ACCEPT gnustep-gui soon, all the
GNUstep packages will get rebuilt quickly, and maybe we’ll have a GNUstep
release in Lenny that’s less than a year old. <crosses fingers> The freeze for

technical, gsoc, gnustep
10:03 -0400

As part of my GSoC project, I’ve been tracing through GNUstep’s event handling
to see how events from the X window system become OpenStep-style events. Here
is a brief outline. (Non-technical readers will want to stop reading around
here, if they haven’t stopped already.)

bookmark, news, environment
09:17 -0400

URL:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/16/condemned-lakes.html

From the article:

bookmark, news, environment
09:17 -0400

URL:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/16/condemned-lakes.html

(see also: Globe and Mail)

From the article: