n. a computer storage system that automatically produces journal articles for you.

The latest GNOME Journal is out and I think it contains some great stuff. If you just want to read the stuff I wrote (or helped write), see the WSOP article and the interview I gave to Lucas Rocha. Otherwise, also check out Tinymail and Glade-3.

Ubuntu, like so many other distribution vendors patch something, so that somehow they can put their (ugly) logo on the panel. Ubuntu had the cleanest solution to this, they installed an icon in the theme called distributor-logo and then patched the GNOME panel to check for that logo's existence and use it if available. This made it remarkably easy to get your foot back using a dpkg diversion:

dpkg-divert --rename --divert /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/distributor-logo.svg.ubuntu --add /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/distributor-logo.svg

Unfortunately in Edgy (perhaps with the icon-naming-spec) this is no longer enough! GNOME now attempts to fall back to an icon called start-here, which it turns out Ubuntu is replacing (grrr). What I've done is to divert this icon as well:

sudo dpkg-divert --rename --divert /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg.ubuntu --add /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg

Then download the icon from the gnome-icon-theme.

The question here is why Ubuntu applies this patch, yet replaces the icon anyway... I wish I knew.

"Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret"
I want this on a T-shirt.