Category Archives: Free and Open Source

Sipdroid and diamondcard

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Trick

A few years ago when first travelling overseas I spent $10 on a SIP-to-landline calling service, Diamondcard, that would allow me to use Ekiga on my laptop to make phone calls while in the UK to the US.  It works well, and it’s cheap. Nowadays … Continue reading →

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How to recover an ext3 volume with an unreadable journal

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Trick

Last Wednesday I came to work to find my workstation had died overnight — and upon reboot, it failed to mount or fsck the root partition.  Unfortunately it seems my disk has seen enough service and was having failed reads: … Continue reading →

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Gnome terminal 2.26 annoyingly protects running child processes?

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Trick

Has anyone else been as annoyed as I am about this dialog?  Every time I close a terminal which has a running child process, rather than the terminal closing and the child process(es) getting killed, gnome-terminal tries to protect: I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Gnome, Uncategorized, User Interface Design | 2 Comments

Firefox Three, Guinness World Records, and bananas.

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Trick

So I guess bananas has nothing to do with it, although all you monkeys will be jealous to know I had one with my dinner, and it was tasty. However the real fruit of the day is (you guessed it) … Continue reading →

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Evolution Crash Detection

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Trick

I’ve recently made the jump to the latest ‘n greatest desktop, GNOME 2.22. Altogether I’m quite happy with the software. Not so happy with all the Gentoo bugs. But that’s another story. One of my favorite bugs is the crashes … Continue reading →

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Death to the Zen Micro

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Trick

So yesterday I was quite convinced that I was going to make it down to see the Chicago Air and Water Show, hoping I could see the Thunderbirds.  Well lets just say that we got water alright.  I stood out … Continue reading →

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GUADEC followup

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Trick

Wowzers, what a great time! Was intending to write about each day individually, but that’s certainly out of the question now. GUADEC was a great experience and I’m hooked on the community! A big thanks to everyone who helped put … Continue reading →

Posted in Banshee, Free and Open Source, GNU/Linux, GUADEC 2007, Gnome, MTP, Nifty, Travel, Uncategorized, libgphoto2-sharp | 1 Comment

GUADEC Core Day 1

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Trick

Wowzers, what a day! Jono’s talk was excellent. Video taped the morning sessions in Recital; the F-Spot presentation was great. Larry is working on some sweet ass stuff. Sync’ing our photos online — integration with web services — I think … Continue reading →

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GUADEC Warmup Day 2

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Trick

So I arrived in London around 6 AM; everything went quickly.  Plane ride was fun, albeit quite cozy. Took the paddington express train, which is super slick, jumped on the underground to Euston, and wandered around for a while until … Continue reading →

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:w

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Trick

Yes, that’s a VIM :w (not some new fangled creation), as in, I’m actually writing something here! I haven’t written in three months, and haven’t committed any code in four…as I’ve been a bit distracted by a few things, notably: … Continue reading →

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