This is the archive for July 2007. Recent posts can be found at the main blog page.
Important notice for Guadec attendees
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 ★ 12:51 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url
Important notice: you should definitely check out this map of the conference venue to meet friends and request features!
Gnome Specimen 0.3 is out!
Monday, July 16, 2007 ★ 16:35 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url
Update: Gnome Specimen 0.3.1 is out
I have just released Gnome Specimen 0.3, your favourite tool for previewing and comparing fonts on your Gnome desktop.
User-visible changes since the previous release:
- Keyboard shortcuts for zooming (Ctrl-Plus, Ctrl-Minus)
Other changes:
- Font loading on startup should be much faster
- Added debian/ directory for easy Debian packaging
- Updated copyright notices (email address and year)
Translations:
- Brazilian Portuguese (Vinicius Depizzol)
- Greek (Dimitris Glezos)
- Japanese (Takeshi Aihana)
- Spanish (Albert Abril)
As you see, nothing major… just a maintenance release. Get it while it’s hot!
- Gnome Specimen 0.3 tarball
As heard on Guadec
Monday, July 16, 2007 ★ 14:02 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url
Overheard on Guadec, in the Etap hotel lobby:
lennart: Are you Vincent Untz?
vuntz: Yeah, I am
lennart: Great, let’s discuss this bug I found
vuntz: Oh wait, I’m not Vincent Untz
(some time passes)
lennart: Do you do gnome-session maintenance work as well?
vuntz: Yeah, that’s me
lennart: Let’s dicuss this bug i found
vuntz: I just told you I’m not Vincent Untz
Update: Response from Vincent Untz
Flying to Guadec with a laptop
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 ★ 20:12 ★ Categories Gnome, Travelling ★ Permanent url
Dear lazyweb,
Next week I’ll be travelling to the wonderful Guadec 2007 conference in Birmingham. I’ll be flying from Amsterdam ( Schiphol Airport) to Birmingham International Airport.
I’m wondering whether I should bring my laptop. I really want my laptop as hand luggage, not in the aircraft hold… however, information on this topic is hard to find:
- The Birmingham Airport security rules do not mention laptops. Update: oh well, it does after you click on the tiny “2” at the bottom.
- The Birmingham Airport aviation security page does neither; see also the list of items (this is page 2 of the aviation security pages)
All information is appreciated! You can reach me via mail or jabber; please refer to my about page for contact information. You may also ping me on IRC (nickname uws). I’ll update this post once I have more information.
Update: It seems bringing your laptop in your hand luggage is not much of a problem, but not in combination with liquids for some reason. Most likely the laptop needs to be unpacked and X-ray scanned separated from the rest of the luggage, but there is usually no need to turn it on (but save some battery power to boot up, just in case). Thanks for the quick responses I received (you know who you are)!
Update 2: Oh, and if you really need to start your laptop, make sure you don’t leave any browser windows pointing to this page open…
Random photo from Paris (January, 2007)
Who wrote all this?
Wouter Bolsterlee, also known as uws, a postmodern geek living in the Netherlands. Read more about me…
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