Dear Gnome developers, I have been a good boy all year long. What I really wish to get for Christmas is the following. As you all know, we already have this nice feature available: Could we have this one too? It seems logical to have both, especially since there’s very little work remaining – the…
21/12/2005 Lire la suite...-
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EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL – Free software !
A few weeks ago, Greg KH proposed a patch that moved all pci symbols from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, stating that the days of proprietary modules were numbered. Arjan Van de Ven further explained how tolerating proprietary modules was hurting the kernel in the long run. Today, I see that Andrew Morton did one of his…
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Aaaaaaaaah! (« What I am doing here? »)
I got my birthday gift yesterday… A tandem parachute jump from 4.000 meters high! The moment were the « WTF am I doing here? » thought is the loudest, is this one: At this moment I’ve got my ass in the air and Fabien, the guy who jumped with me, was about to stick my head…
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Ubuntu packages, again
The unofficial repository now contains signed packages. To stop getting warnings, use the following: wget https://www.colino.net/colin.publickey sudo apt-key add colin.publickey sudo apt-get update…
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RSSyl
I didn’t mention it here, but Andrej, who is now on our planet, released his first plugin, RSSyl. It is, as its name states, an RSS feed aggregator plugin for Sylpheed-Claws. In my opinion it’s one of the most important external plugin written, as it finally enables hardcore Claws users who have its shortcuts hardwired…
05/12/2005 Lire la suite...
