Monthly Archives: January 2006

where do you see visions?

Some people see visions of the virgin mary. Some other people see visions of other things. Are you a believer?

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yet another in a long series of poor financial decisions

Last thursday I traded in the Miata I bought last year and purchased a new car. After driving the Miata back from the west coast and spending a full year with it I finally decided that it wasn’t the right … Continue reading

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profiling startup time

One of our internal kernel hackers at Red Hat, Dave Jones, recently did some profiling of what’s called through the kernel during startup. He traced stat()s, open()s, and commands exec()ed. There were some pretty amazing results. Some of the highlights … Continue reading

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chill out dudes

You guys need to learn how to take a joke.  Seriously.

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upstairs update

I don’t think I’ve posted anything on our upstairs renovations since February of 2004, but we have been trucking along on it, slowly but surely. The bathroom is nearly complete. There are only four things left to do: paint, install … Continue reading

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evolution hacker

Red Hat has an opening for an evolution hacker in our desktop group. Does working with active directory and exchange make you green and angry, turning you into a programmer that can throw cars? Does the intersection of opinionated open … Continue reading

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an image that needs a new title

The original title was Dangerous Trend: Huffing and Sniffing. Please discuss.

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gtk+ printing

It’s awesome to see people finally getting serious about fixing printing in Gtk+. It’s long been a huge sore spot in Gtk+ and on Linux in general. Alex’s excellent post lays out a lot of the issues. I’m hoping that … Continue reading

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in hindsight

I realized after seeing responses to my post yesterday that I mis-named my post.  It should have been titled “beagle, f-spot and tomboy in fc5.”  It’s the apps that matter and they could have been written in any language.  Mono … Continue reading

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mono in fc5

Tonight Mono lands in rawhide, and will be included in FC5. We’re happy to enable another convenient method to use our core desktop platform. In this sense it joins all of the other enabling tools we have, including pygtk and … Continue reading

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