29th August 2004
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Ubuntu
Tried out the Ubuntu live CD beta today, ran into a few issues. USB mice don't seem to work (huh?) and the battery applet can't seem to connect to ACPId (I didn't spend a lot of time looking into it). I'm going to try out the installable version tomorrow if I get time to sit down at my other machine to install it on. I'm not sure I'm allowed to make screenshots of it, but I don't think I'm too fond of the colour scheme.
screenshots of other things
Talking about screenshots, since I know people love them. I thought I'd give a screenshot of what my desktop looks like (you can compare it to the ugly one off the Sun from a couple of days ago) especially since it's almost GNOME 2.8, and I'm sure someone wants to know what it'll look like (before anyone asks, the theme is Dave Camp's Mist, with the default GNOME icons, the background came from art.gnome.org iirc).
life
Grahame and Sharleen made it to Melbourne safely (in case anyone was wondering). If they had any dramas, they didn't bother to mention them to me, so I choose to assume everything is just fine.
Spent some time tonight with Stephanie's mum (my future mother in law). It was meant to be her entire family, except her father was out, and her sister can be quite antisocial. I ended up getting my laptop out and connecting to their new wireless network (not before fixing it again of course). Had a fantastic dinner of chicken curry followed by pie.
Also spent time with my family on Friday night (it was my parents 21st (I think) wedding anniversary). Spent the afternoon at my parents house while Stephanie went shopping for archery gear with Chris (my brother), installed audio/video switches for both my mother and my grandmother (so they can watch a DVD, or a video, or whatever without having to plug/unplug cables), and had dinner at my grandparents house.
gnome-applets
Closed a heap of old gweather bugs that were in the NEEDINFO state, and completely disregarded. Hopefully while the release cycle is in it's quiet phase I can get more of the older bugs cleaned out, so that we're ready to get in heaps of new code and features for 2.10 (not that anyone really cares about features in gnome-applets).
Tried out the Ubuntu live CD beta today, ran into a few issues. USB mice don't seem to work (huh?) and the battery applet can't seem to connect to ACPId (I didn't spend a lot of time looking into it). I'm going to try out the installable version tomorrow if I get time to sit down at my other machine to install it on. I'm not sure I'm allowed to make screenshots of it, but I don't think I'm too fond of the colour scheme.
screenshots of other things
Talking about screenshots, since I know people love them. I thought I'd give a screenshot of what my desktop looks like (you can compare it to the ugly one off the Sun from a couple of days ago) especially since it's almost GNOME 2.8, and I'm sure someone wants to know what it'll look like (before anyone asks, the theme is Dave Camp's Mist, with the default GNOME icons, the background came from art.gnome.org iirc).life
Grahame and Sharleen made it to Melbourne safely (in case anyone was wondering). If they had any dramas, they didn't bother to mention them to me, so I choose to assume everything is just fine.
Spent some time tonight with Stephanie's mum (my future mother in law). It was meant to be her entire family, except her father was out, and her sister can be quite antisocial. I ended up getting my laptop out and connecting to their new wireless network (not before fixing it again of course). Had a fantastic dinner of chicken curry followed by pie.
Also spent time with my family on Friday night (it was my parents 21st (I think) wedding anniversary). Spent the afternoon at my parents house while Stephanie went shopping for archery gear with Chris (my brother), installed audio/video switches for both my mother and my grandmother (so they can watch a DVD, or a video, or whatever without having to plug/unplug cables), and had dinner at my grandparents house.
gnome-applets
Closed a heap of old gweather bugs that were in the NEEDINFO state, and completely disregarded. Hopefully while the release cycle is in it's quiet phase I can get more of the older bugs cleaned out, so that we're ready to get in heaps of new code and features for 2.10 (not that anyone really cares about features in gnome-applets).
mood: 
tired
tiredlock up your wives, protect your children!
Nothing is sacred! See how it willingly charges you for transfers inside the local area network of the university!
900MB of traffic, almost $40 worth they didn't have to pay for!
Now I'm sure the stirling blokes at University Communications Services will sort this out first thing on Monday, but I still want to know why it charged me in the first place. It did stop me using the internet at university this afternoon.
mood: 
confused
confused
