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Garrett LeSage
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Today, Novell is releasing something I (and the rest of the team I’m on) have been working on for a while: BetterDesktop.org, a website which focuses on usability studies and analysis for the Open Source desktop.
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Garrett LeSage
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Aaron’s Banshee presentation was totally awesome.At first, the presentation computer (an MIT thing), caused the screen to roll up, the lights to turn fully bright — and then became a bit stubborn in doing the right thing. A few minutes later, after Aaron and Miguel (who stepped in to help),...
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Garrett LeSage
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After Tuomas (tigert) arrived from his long plane flight, he opened up his laptop in a cube at work, resuming it from its suspended sleep. I was also in the same cube.He then proceeded to show me something, but as soon as he pointed to it (with his finger toward...
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Garrett LeSage
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At this year’s GNOME Summit, I will be giving a talk on “building great community websites” at 3:45 pm on Sunday.I will be focusing on the content that typically should be included on a project’s website as well as discussing some of the software (blogs, wikis, CMS, etc.) which can...
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Garrett LeSage
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In many parts of the country, it can make a lot of sense to buy a home. Not so for Boston, New York, or the Bay Area, if the New York Times is right.This makes me feel not-so-bad for not having the desire to purchase a super-expensive, overpriced old shack...
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Garrett LeSage
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“Floating Island” is basically a minature recreation (with live trees and grass) of Central Park, but on a garbage scow, currently being tugged around New York’s harbor.As the captian of the tugboat was dragging around the minipark, he noticed a speedboat carrying a miniature version of a bright orange minigate!According...
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Garrett LeSage
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I fully agree with Tuomas regarding the over-use of icons everywhere.You can, in fact, set GTK+ (and thus, GNOME) applications to not display button icons. At first it may seem a little weird (as you may not be used to it), but not having icons in the dialog buttons will...
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Garrett LeSage
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Report? Report? Who’s got a report?It seems that typical Massachusetts government is at “work”: The cities of Lynn and Revere don’t know what’s going on, so they each pass the buck to each other and the state. The state says it doesn’t have a clue; check with the county and...
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Garrett LeSage
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There’s some sort of problem with PHP5 on my server. Spam Karma 2 (among a few other things) triggers the bug. You, as a user, will notice it when you go to post a comment (as it gets ran through Spam Karma 2). The end result is that you get...