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Archive for November, 2005

munichblogs and berlinblogs

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

I’ve processed all the email requests from the last few months for changes/additions to munichblogs.com and berlinblogs.com, and I’ve fixed munichblogs.com. Deleting the planet cache made it work again. If I have missed anyone’s email, please try again.


Switched to WordPress

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

I’ve switched my blog to wordpress to try to reduce the processor resources needed with pyblosxom, and to get a working captcha (the pictures of letters) system for comments, to avoid spam. To keep the old rss feed url, http://www.murrayc.com/blog/?flav=rss working, by pointing it at the new feed url, http://www.murrayc.com/blog/?feed=rss I’ve tried the following RewriteRule [...]


Getting out of the way

Monday, November 7th, 2005

My project to win back my time is making good progress. John Palmieri has taken over from me on the release team. He'll be good at it. I've announced that I'm not standing for the Board this year. I've announced that I'd like someone to take over from me on the GNOME Germany board. I [...]


New gtkmm applications

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Lots of gtkmm (GTK+ C++ API) applications have popped up recently: VMWare Player (closed-source, but gratis). People already love VMWare's ability to emulate complete operating systems inside other operating systems, and to clone them and rollback. Soon (now available as a beta) we'll be able to distribute one of these sessions without charge, like sending [...]


GNOME Board candidates

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

I will almost certainly not be running for the GNOME board this time. There's still important things to do, but I only planned to be useful for one year, and I really need to reclaim some time by giving up some responsibilities. In the second half of this year I haven't even had enough time [...]