Xfake and luminocity

I have a bit of a interest in SEO (Search engine optimization), so i tend to watch my statistics a lot, a thing i have been noticing is that a lot of people are finding my site on the keywords "Xfake and luminocity" while entertaining it isn't really all that useful since i have very little info about it on my site.

So for all the people whom stumble on my site looking for it, please go to seths place because he bloged on it quite a bit, and the live.gnome.org page about it. There's all the info that you need.

And yes i know this will even rank me higher on those keywords but now at least there are some useful links about it.

Saturday, June 11 2005

Contributing to GNOME and the marketing team.

For a few years now i've been planning to start contributing to the code base of GNOME, but because of lack of knowledge, time and patience this mostly stayed in the planning/starting and failing department. Then gnome-nl came along and i had a new way of contributing, locally in the Netherlands or better said the dutch speaking parts of western Europe plus "friesland".

Recently because of the GUADEC i got some good tips on how to set up shop to actually try and fix bugs and the likes in the code base via GARNOME, although because of my new house this is mostly just getting everything ready and worked out for when i have some time to spare. A few months back i also joined the GNOME marketing team, simply because i thought i should get some info on how to properly market it and what the global GNOME thought about marketing.

Now since a few weeks i've actually noticed that i like the marketing bit more then the bug fixing bit. Since i keep putting that on a back burner while i've already written a few half documents with plans and ideas on how to stream line the marketing effort locally as well globally (not yet released though). So i think my point of contribution to GNOME will probably take a turn for the strange, especially for me since i always disliked marketing types. We had a little phrase for those types of peoples, roughly translated to "A dick in a suit with a Alpha" (please note that in dutch the words dick and suit rhyme. also a Alpha is a type of car, and for dutch people the phrase is "Een pik in een pak met een Alpha") No i never wanted to be that guy in a suit with a big car and a smooth talk. I wanted to be the long haired hippie with the coffee stain on his sweater. It seems however that i'm becoming the dick in a suit pretty fast, and i don't know if that's all that bad really. I've also seem to be added as a marketing team member, now all i need is some knowledge of marketing, since i lack any real education in that field, so if anyone knows some good books about marketing please mail them to me

Saturday, June 04 2005

gnome launch box

I found this really cool app on the gnome live power user tools page. the app is like a super fast search thingy to start applications or documents or find someone in your address book whom you want to mail. It's called launch-box.

I use ubuntu so installing it was done in only a few seconds. But for such a application to be useful you really need to bind it to a shortcut key. However i don't think GNOME lets you do that yet in a easy gnome way, but it is possible.

You just open gconf-editor and search for Metacity (/apps/metacity/) there you have a few subs, the ones you need are "keybinding_commands" and "global_keybindings". In "keybinding_commands" choose a "command_X" to put the command in.
Then in "global_keybindings" find the "run_command_X" (where X is the chosen number) and input your keybinding as value. I use Super_L since that key din't have any previous use anyway.

Wednesday, June 01 2005

GUADEC And my new house

Lots to talk about, lots of exciting stuff is happening and has happened.

I went to GUADEC this weekend with Vicent, Reinout and Olav. It totally rocked and really got me motivated to finally start to actually contribute to gnome in terms of fixing bugs and such. Also got some good info about how to avoid the whole gnome-common/autogen/stuff-around-actually-working-with-the-code by using garnome or jhbuild also saw some great stuff about eclipse will certainly be installing that soon and start working on something as soon as i got my house a bit ready.

The weather was a bit too hot for most people (including me) but the whole place was stacked with those water vending machines so it was pretty easy to get some fresh cool water.

I also finally bought the house i have been talking about, here some images to get a picture of the place

This place will become my bedroom, it's actually a bit too big but since i can't really move walls around it can't be helped.

This is the attic, and it comes with a cool PLC like device that controls all the lights in my apartment. It also has a RS232 interface so i can hook it up to a computer.

This will be my living room at some time or another, because the apartment was actually build as a multiple bedroom setup there is a sink in every room, which isn't very practical but can be removed.
You can find bigger versions in my ART section

StratoS Online

twitter | <= =>