Archive for October, 2006

I know what you did this summer…

Published on October 19, 2006 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

This is so true..

Today on the other hand I wrote a few patches for alacarte and deskbar.

It seems that quite a few modules are missing the magic values in their .desktop files which Bug Buddy needs to send bugs to the right place. See #348827 for details. Perhaps this should be the next GNOME goal?

(Doh. I alway forget to publish my blog entries with Wordpress. So this was supposed to appear yesterday.)

GConf diff tool

Published on October 17, 2006 in Uncategorized. 2 Comments

Somebody on desktop-devel-list asked for a “gconf-diff” which should tell them the settings they have in gconf that are different to the defaults.

So I wrote it, you can get it in the list archives or by following this link: gconf-diff.py.

As well as giving the keys that are different it also gives keys without a matching schema. I think this should also be helpful with troubleshooting upgrades and the like.

Progress!

Published on October 10, 2006 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

I have just submitted by first research paper to a leading networks conference. I wish I could have been in Boston but alas there was no time to spare with this deadline.

Now i’m going to get some sleep.

Books, etc!

Published on October 3, 2006 in Uncategorized. 3 Comments

Today I started reading High Fidelity and am having trouble putting it down. So far I have read three other of Hornby’s novels: About a Boy, How to Be Good and A Long Way Down (in that order). And to be honest after the insightful intrigue of the former I found the other two lacking in anything of any interest. A Long Way Down was massively predictable and a tad morbidly bland and How to Be Good failed to say anything interesting, at all. Ever.

A couple of weekends ago I was visited by some close friends from Cambridge, Steve and Noirin, and we did the usual Berlin things. Sunday Frühstück, shopping, eating ice cream and a helluvalot of walking. We did however see Thankyou For Smoking at the Original Version cinema at the Sony Center. It was witty and clever and all the things a good film should be. Noirin commented afterwards that in the whole film that you don’t see anybody smoking in the whole thing. I’m looking forward to Starter for Ten. I doubt anyone outside the UK will really grok a film about a cult television series (if Countdown is cult, University Challenge must be up there with the Today Programme.)

(Pardon the cheesy pun on the name of a chain of book shops long since subsumed into the now ubiquitous Borders.)