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Monday, December 04 2006
Report of T-DOSE
Well as i blogged before, saturday we where at T-DOSE the Technical Dutch Open Source Event.
The starting keynotes by Willem Jan Withagen where pretty interesting, although left me with a nagging urge to install freeBSD.
The first part of the day was pretty uneventful with mostly vendors and other stall people looking at each others presentation and having a bit of a talk. After the midday though the amount of people started to rise, with quite a big chunk of them visiting our stand, not in the least to be attributed to the wonderful posters whe got from the Gnome Event Box.
We had quite some hardware running at our stand, consisting of 3 laptops and the gnome event box pc (which unfortunately died after a few hours, but after that was utilised to run from a live-cd)
The only bad thing was the fact that besides all this great hardware for showing off gnome, we had very little in the terms of recording it :/ so you will have to make do with the pictures i made with my phone.
Saturday, December 02 2006
T-DOSE
Currently i'm at T-DOSE trying to promote GNOME it's a bit difficult though, since for the most part it's just the vendors and other stall people looking at each others presentation. And i haven't really seen any real visitors yet.
To make matters worse, the pc from the gnome event box died. While running at some point it just crashed, At the reboot i got a couple of read errors and after that grub wouldn't go to stage2 and it would randomly not even find the disk to boot from. I'm unsure how this is going to be resolved, but i'll mail murray about it tonight when i get home. For demoing material it isn't a problem though, since we still had 3 more laptops there running openSUSE, Mandriva and Debian. I'll put some pictures online tonight when i can hook up my phone to a windows machine.
-edit @ 1:32 pm-
It seems i was a bit premature in my assessment of the amount of public because now after morning it's certainly picking up in the number of visitors.
Wednesday, November 22 2006
Stemadvies
My advice for dutch voters.
Help ons de leugens ontmaskeren!!!!
(yes i'm kidding)
Saturday, November 04 2006
gnome-NL business cards
In response to Wouter about the business cards. Our current design isn't following gnome guidelines, the old gnome logo we use has been banned. The gnome logo guidelines are now quite specific about the use.
I actually pretty much knew it was going to happen at the time our cards where getting printed, but because it had been such a wreck getting the cards (took around 3 months i recall to get a design everyone could agree on), at the time i couldn't have cared any less.
Also please note that the logo at that time wasn't officially banned yet, it was just discouraged to use. I think i might have mentioned it a few times, but i'm unsure when en to whom, the basic idea was to get new cards printed this summer, but since the whole 'going to conferences to promote gnome and stuff' idea kinda took a dip last year, and talks with hurryjane about getting new cards printed went 'so so' i decided to just do nothing about it for a while. I'm not saying we shouldn't get new cards, but without us actually using them, it's kinda pointless at this time.
And thirdly, i kinda like the gnome2 logo, and while gnome has a brand to protect, we aren't gnome we are gnome-nl. Which isn't to say there isn't a strong relation between the two, but where not the same thing. IMHO where more like official platinum gnome partners. (to speak in commercial software terms) Which in my delusion means we don't really have to change the logo. Of course we should and we will, but there is no direct reason to do it right now.
Wednesday, September 06 2006
openSUSE
As reaction on Vincent's blog entry about Dell Latitude D620. I have a Dell inspiron 6000 also with a i915 video chipset and never could get the native resolution on ubuntu (dapper), i knew about the 915resolution thing, but didn't want to invest any time into it, since it was working pretty good and native resolution was 1920x1200 and ubuntu got it to 18sumthingxsumthing and it looked ok albeit a bit stretched.
However i recently installed OpenSUSE (10.sumthing) on it and it worked on native resolution out of the box. Perhaps eft will also do this, but i just wanted to play around with Xgl a bit, but also wanted something that would just work without me having to tinker with it. So while i never was a big fan of SuSe linux i just wanted to see what had happened with it, and i was pleasantly surprised. Although hibernate and suspend are still not working, so perhaps i'll be trying eft in a few months to see if ubuntu can do it.
I have learned something though, there is no such thing as too high a resolution and scalable icons and text is a must have when your working with high resolutions. :)
Oh and Xgl kicks ass, and works just fine on a i915 video chipset. Although the redrawing of windows is a bit slow.
Tuesday, May 16 2006
Dutch GNOME Live CD
I noticed quite a few people try to download our dutch branch of the GNOME Live-cd, however this project has been pretty much put on hiatus until someone picks it up again. Also the torrent for that live-cd has long been dead. However since the official (or at least as official as can be) GNOME Live-cd also sports a dutch version, i've changed the link under that file to point to torrent.gnome.org.
Thursday, February 02 2006
There's something smelly about old code
Well a bit late but happy new year!!!
So i finally updated the site to support multiple years. It's funny i wrote the code for this site almost a year ago, with a few minor tweaks here and there about 10 months ago
Yet when I look at the code base now it looks god awfull, some weird contraption that resembles a framework from hell. Oh well i'll probably do a rewrite of it one of these days (yes that means never),
But the real reason i updated my site and wrote this blog is to say that i still haven't sent uws his business cards. *sigh* but i'll hope to do it this week.
On the whole GNOME-NL front things seem to be going slow, or rather at a complete stand still. Not without reason though, paperwork was piling up, house keeping work kept lacking, my roof still leaking. So i decided to instead of doing lots of thing almost, to just start finishing stuff and getting things done. However when putting priorities to stuff that needs to be done, GNOME-NL did not really make it to the top, i'm hoping to start doing stuff again around the release of GNOME 2.14 but i can't really be sure since i still have lots of other stuff going on.
