user: Arnaud Fontaine joins fd.o
Posted by Benjamin Close on October 8, 2008 under FreeDesktop | 
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Please welcome Arnaud Fontaine (arnau) who has joined the fd.o ranks to work on xcb!
user: John Carr joins OHM project
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Please welcome John Carr (johncarr) to the fd.o ranks. He’ll be working on the OHM project.
user: Andreas Volz Joins the fd.o dbus crowd
Posted by Benjamin Close on October 3, 2008 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment
Please welcome Andreas Volz (andreasvolz) who will be taking over maintaining dbus-c++ from Paolo Durante. Details at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16693
Project: at-spi (Accessibility Project) gets bugzilla support
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The Accessibility project at-spi has recently been granted bugzilla support. Hence visit http://bugs.freedesktop.org to file bugs Details about the project can be found at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15678
Project: ccss – created (Cairo CSS Drawing Library)
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Please welcome Robert Staudinger (robsta) to the fd.o ranks with his newly created project ccss. Details at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17480
Project: libjpeg – Shutdown
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Due to inactivity since it’s inception, the libjpeg project has been shut down Refer to: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13874 for details.
Resetting the USB Bus under linux
Posted by Benjamin Close on September 15, 2008 under UniSA | 17 Comments to Read
Today Snappy, the little photo box we have taking photos of the new Bruce Lab, broke again. Hence I quickly came up with a way of resetting the USB device under linux based on libusb. Sadly whilst I can confirm this does reset the device gphoto2 still doesn’t like our little Canon Ixus 400 and [..more..]
Annarchy down again :(
Posted by admin on September 10, 2008 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment
Yet again Annarchy suffered some evil failure requiring a hard reboot. The box really needs more memory. Keith has indicated there is budget so I guess when there’s some spare time we should buy and install it. 16GB more would make it very happy. Most the issues come down to disk io. When the ram [..more..]
Spam it just doesn’t stop
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Today I finally found time to run throught the countless amounts of spam in the fd.o mailing lists. It amazes me just how quickly it builds up. Without listadmin moderating it would be a nightmare!
My First WordPress Blog Entry
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Hi Folks, after a long time using a home brew blog of wiki pages, I finally decided to upgrade to some decent blog software. There’s lots of reasons behind this but the main reason is because I prefer to use blog software rather than develop it. So stay tuned there should be lots of entries [..more..]