http://www.tenshu.net Pondering the mystery... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:54:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been far too long, but here it is. Terminator 0.9. As usual, head over to the home page to get all the links and information you need. "So what's new in this release?" Well let's have a little look at the ChangeLog: * Tab support * Drag & Drop support * Added support for ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/07/07/terminator-09-released/ It's taken us some time to get there, but as this page shows, we now have all of the bugs we want solved for 0.9, solved :D The string freeze came way too late unfortunately, so I'm expecting we'll want to do a 0.9.1 consisting of translations and fixes for any ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/07/06/terminator-09-almost-ready/ The list of bugs left for Terminator 0.9 is getting shorter (although I do keep failing to resist the temptation to add more) and so it's time to try and get some wider testing. Therefore, we've started uploading beta packages of 0.9 to our PPA. If you want to help test ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/06/19/terminator-09-betas/ After learning to use Meld and much chatting with chantra, I'm pleased to announce that we have landed his dnd-tabs branch into Terminator trunk. What does all of that mean? Well, it means that we are a major step closer to being able to release 0.9 (which I have arbitrarily decided ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/05/22/a-good-day/ Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult. It's utterly outrageous that we have a law which supposedly prevents individuals from expressing their opinion. 3. A system of intense religious veneration of a particular person, idea, or object, especially one considered spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies; as, the Moonie cult. [PJC] even if ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/05/20/lets-be-perfectly-clear-here/ ... neither of them good. First off, in a stunning piece of fail, Lenovo have used a drive from one of the few manufacturers that enforces region coding on DVDs in hardware - Matshita, aka Matsushita, aka Panasonic. This is very frustrating and made worse by the drive shipping in a ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/04/20/a-couple-of-x300-tidbits/ You have new hardware (most likely server). You pop in a debian/ubuntu installer CD, tell it what kind of keyboard you have and expect it to scan the CDROM for packages, but....uh-oh, it can't find the CD! What do you do?! Well, realistically there's not a lot you can do to make ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/04/08/getting-information-out-of-a-badly-broken-debian-installer/ The Thinkpad X300 is a pretty tasty beast. Much nicer screen than the X40, and the SSD is a huge win for lots of IO workloads. I've still got a fair few Linux support oddities to work through, but thus far people are being very helpful. When the support is there, this ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/03/17/thinkpad-x300-thoughts/ luisbg has a blog posting of the very interesting looking flickbook, specifically a video which shows Terminator being used to launch the demo. Woo! http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/02/27/first-terminator-video-appearance/ 0.8 had a few annoying little bugs we decided to squash quickly, so without further ado, 0.8.1 is now out and on the homepage. http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/02/20/terminator-081-released/ This is a bugfix and feature and infrastructure release. It should be a lot better than 0.7 in less focussed ways - e.g. icons, menu integration, better gconf support. As usual hit up the Terminator home page for more. http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/02/15/terminator-08-released/ Terminator will soon appear in GNOME's Preferred Applications preferences if you have it installed and as such I figure we need to support -x in the same way gnome-terminal does. What that basically means is that *anything* which occurs after -x on the command line is the command to execute and ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/02/12/esoteric-command-line-argument-parsing-in-python/ I just found an excellent post which includes some runes for getting the oh-so-ugly opensync to work with an n95. I just synced all my contacts to my laptop via Bluetooth \o/ http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/02/07/a-quick-n95-note/ Maybe you're fresh out of college or university, or maybe you just love tinkering with computers so much you didn't bother with stuffy education. We're looking for someone to take on a junior role in our sysadmin team, so if you're interested, take a look at the description and mail our ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/02/07/want-to-work-for-canonical/ Some administrivia about my PPA builds of Terminator. Firstly, and somewhat late (for which I apologise), the 0.7 release should be available shortly from the PPA. It's just been accepted, so should be built for gutsy soon. Secondly, as some people may have noticed, Terminator is now included in the Universe repository ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/01/31/terminator-ppa-plans/ Yes that's right, it's time for another advance in the endless march of that most robotic of terminals, Terminator. Head over to its homepage for all the links you need to ease yourself into the future! http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/01/14/terminator-07-released/ I have a fair stack of data that I quite like, some of which is vitally important, stored in multiple places and generally not at concern for loss without some very bad things happening already. The rest I'd just like to keep. For example, I wouldn't cry if I lost all ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/01/14/migrating-ubuntu-to-raid1/ The awesomeness of this phone continues... as well as a rash of cool apps I've installed, I also just tried out the "Home Network" features. What this actually refers to is uPnP, specifically DLNA. What does all that mean? It means I can view/copy the photos/movies/music from the phone with my ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2008/01/04/more-nokia-n95/ I recently got a Nokia n95 from Orange and have been playing with it for a week or two. Overall I am most happy with the thing. It's a little bit slow and stranger than SonyEricsson's firmware in some ways, but it has some wicked features: * GPS * TV Out ... http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2007/12/28/nokia-n95/ Thanks very much to Jorge Castro for pimping Terminator on his blog. I hope I get the flurry of patches he mentions! http://www.tenshu.net/archives/2007/12/27/jorge-rocks/