My little Ubuntu CD problem is solved. The CDs remaining after the 1500 handed out at the Systems show have been cleared out by Joerg Kress taking 250 for Bayreuth University, Moritz Angermann taking 1250 for the Munich Technical University's computer, maths and sciences campus, and Christian Neumair taking 250 for the University's electrical engineering [...]

I'm starting on the Hildon C++ bindings for Nokia. Setting up the development environment was really easy with the detailed instructions. I used the scratchbox 0.9.8.5 version via the debian apt-get source, and it worked fine on Ubuntu Breezy.
Compared to emulators I've used for mobile phone work, this is easy thanks to a fakeroot shell [...]

So, Systems is over, and the GNOME stand was a great success, though small. The 5600 Ubuntu CDs arrived a bit late, so we could only hand them out on the last day and a half. They were busy days, so we could hand them out at about a rate of 1000 per day. We [...]

I added the information about my new laptop to the Ubuntu wiki page for acer laptops. I'm not too bothered that the built in ethernet and wireless networking don't work, because I still have the external cards from my old laptop, and I'm sure they'll work in some future version. Suspend would be nice, [...]

All this week, GNOME Deutschland is at the Systems fair in Munich. Our part of the show does not feel as busy as a LinuxTag, but there are many people eager to see how Linux looks, and very receptive to the idea of a beautiful easy-to-use desktop that's provides an escape from Windows hell.

Unfortunately one [...]

Yes, I have turned comments off. I'm being hammered by thousands of spam hits per day. It is even causing a huge load on the server with comments turned off. pyblosxom seems to need too much resources when there are lots of entries, so I must switch to Wordpress when I have a chance. I've [...]

I'll be voting Yes in the referendum. It's not necessarily the best solution, but it's the one that's likely to have an effect. Making the existing large group decisive has been tried without success. If the referendum does not succeed, then the members pretty much lose the right to keep complaining that the board does [...]

A while ago I installed Ubuntu Hoary on the home PC of my girlfriend's father, because the existing Windows installation was broken (to the point of not starting Windows) by vast amounts of ridiculous worms, spyware, adware, and viruses. Nevermind that it would be unsafe for online banking and email even if it half worked. [...]

Since Friday my old Dell Inspiron 8100 has refused to start. The lights go on, it whirs for a second, and then the lights go out. It feels like a mainboard failure, but I don't do hardware. These laptops seem to be worth about 500 EUR new on ebay, so I guess that a new [...]