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This is Ireland’s entry in the Eurovision. We (the Irish public that is) went mad for several weeks to pick out Mickey Harte singing “We’ve Got the World Tonght”. Of course I watched it only because Martina was watching it!

Hi Tim! Nice site! One to read, and I’ve added you to my rss aggregator!

Seems that the Gnome Project has made Vera Fonts widely available now. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to install these (copy the local.conf to /etc/fonts, and copy the .ttf files into ~/fonts before running fc-cache)
I restarted Galeon and kmail to see what it looked like and initially I didn’t like the look of them. I’m still not sure about Kmail, but in the browser they might look ok. I think they look a bit “wide” or something. Time will tell, and I’ll post about this again tomorrow!

If you run IE6, do not visit this page! But if you use any other browser feel free to use the Internet 🙂

Raven Alder was invited to Dublin last month to speak at LinuxWorld. Here’s the very entertaining story of her trip to Dublin!

TransluXent: Translucent Windows for X

TransluXent is an implementation of an X Server which uses OpenGL for what would be the graphics card driver. As such it can easily offer translucent windows.

What I find interesting is the fact they used OpenGL as the backend “hardware” of the project. This abstracts the GUI completely from the underlying physical hardware and as long as there’s an OpenGL driver for a particular graphics card X could be made to run in exotic places and do strange things. Commercial OpenGL support for a lot of hardware is probably better than support for X so this is a boon!
My first thought was of a 3D GUI, where you traverse a 3D environment. Your applications live in different parts of the space. Loading an application like Open Office would be represented by a slowly advancing application. The app gets bigger and bigger as it loads (remember, this is in OpenGL, doing this in a decent card won’t hurt the CPU performance!) and finally appears to “snap” into place in front of you!
Keyboard shortcuts are simply a “run mode” or zoom. Would virtual desktops exist? Maybe virtual “application groups” instead.
Enough of that, I await the flaming comments from usability geeks that will surely descend upon me once I post this! *grin*

This is the first day I haven’t got spam in my inbox in a long time. It could be because I was at work until 7:15pm last night and picked up 2 before I left though..
Those 78 spams in my spam folder tells me SA is working away 🙂

It’s been mentioned elsewhere but I want to read this article at the weekend and if I don’t mention it here I’ll forget it!

This morning I got bluetooth working from Win2k. After a few reboots (of both PC and phone) I was able to transfer over a few gam^h^h^h^happs to the phone. It seems the Win2k software opens an ftp connection to the phone!
I wonder if anyone has done any work getting the phone setup as an external ftp server inside KDE Konqueror?

I installed Red Hat 9 on a server here. Then I downloaded apt for Red Hat 9 and did an “update” and “upgrade”. It found updated packages for openssl, samba, and sendmail so be warned if you’re putting a virgin RH9 box on the internet – chances are it has exploitable applications.

I just heard Robert Fisk talk on Today FM. He told how the tank that fired on the Palestine Hotel wasn’t being sniped upon. He was halfway between the tank and the hotel itself and didn’t hear any attack. A French film crew in the hotel were filming the tank for 5 minutes and didn’t record any shots. Hours later did an American General not announce that the tank was under attack from snipers? Was he covering up something?
Robert described seeing a father raise his child to a camera for the world to see: all that was left of the child was a head, torso and one arm. The world will never see those images.
Roberted posted an excellent article this morning from Baghdad. Go read it.