I need to call on the lazyweb once more. The odd Windows program (Ashlar Vellum) that I need to use inside vmware has a copy-protection dongle that attaches to the parallel port. But vmware can’t seem to find the parallel port. By default it looks for /dev/parport0, which does not exist. If I use /dev/lp0 [...]

Jonathon Jongsma has just updated the DrawingArea chapter of the gtkmm book to describe use of Cairo via cairomm, as used by gtkmm 2.9 (only in CVS for now), with several examples. This is good stuff.

I now have VMWare Workstation. It’s an amazing product that’s going to be very useful to me for testing and for running a handful of obscure Windows programs. It’s well worth the price considering all the amazing work that’s been put into it. Installing Windows in a VMWare virtual machine is a pleasure. It’s great [...]

Morten, it’s not very nice to attack the GTK+ developers in the middle of the discussion, and in a version of GTK+ that has never even been released yet. I’ll be the first to demand ABI stability, but I know I need to be nice about asking what’s happening first.

We love Linus, and we love GNOME, though it isn’t really his kind of desktop. We love the attention and the opportunity to explain what we do. Human interest, enthusiasm, optimism, empowerment, what more could a story need. Journalists should see the GNOME press page for contact details.

I keep seeing wonderfully dramatic wide angle photos, so I am now severly tempted by the Canon 20D wide angle 10-22mm lens. However, at 600 Euros (From DigitalRev, for instance) it’s just too expensive a toy for someone with zero talent. Surely there’s some lower-quality non-USM maybe-not-so-wide alternative?

Updated with bug numbers: As just mentioned, I installed Ubuntu Linux to remove the danger on my girlfriend's father's PC. I made some changes because his eyesight has become quite bad since he had a stroke a few months ago. Mostly I just increased the font size. The following things were annoying: I had to [...]

I uploaded Christian’s pictures of the GNOME stand at LWE Franfurt, so you don’t have to use the dodgy DSL-hosted server that he linked to in his LWE Frankfurt report. I wasn’t at this one, but I know that Zoltan Sekeres was a big help. He’s the kind of reliable energetic person who should be [...]