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Packaging up a Virtual Machine

Packaging up a virtual machine is trivial to the first approximation; just tar up the directory.

2005 10 25 The Joy of Work Comments (0)

The future of Galeon

After meeting with Crispin and Tommi at the Boston Summit, we reached a decision on the future of Galeon…

2005 10 22 The wonderful world of GNOME... Comments (16)

Workstation 5 on SuSE 10. *sigh*

Workstation 5.0’s kernel module source won’t compile working modules on SuSE 10. Workstation 5.5 works great but our website is letting us down.

2005 10 20 The Joy of Work Comments (5)

VMs for everyone!

Today we announced the VMware Player – it’s free, so go check it out!

2005 10 19 The Joy of Work Comments (32)

Heads up about librsvg 2.12.x

Current librsvg 2.12.x releases have a bug that causes them to crash when encountering gaussian blur elements.

2005 09 29 The Joy of Work
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England win the Ashes!

I was about 10 years old the last time we won the Ashes and hadn’t started paying attention to cricket at that point so, for many years, if you’d asked me when was the last time we’d won, I’d probably have replied that it was in the 19th century 🙂

2005 09 12 Incoherent Rambling Comments (4)

That’s quite a view you’ve got there

As a happy coincidence, on the same day that GNOME 2.12 is being released, we’ve managed to get everything sorted out over here to push out the initial release of VIEW, VMware’s Incredibly Exciting Widgets; so named by Christian without a hint of irony. Honest. 🙂

2005 09 07 The Joy of Work Comments (1)

GtkEventBox abuse…

Good news! I’ve now got a satisfactory alternative for controlling the background colour that makes gtk-qt-engine happy, along with a couple of other pathological themes.

2005 08 24 The Joy of Work Comments (1)

Which of these things look like all the others…

gnome-settings-daemon has been tamed, but gtk-qt-engine has stepped up to take it’s place…

2005 08 23 The Joy of Work Comments (5)

And not all 32s are equal…

Yep, still got time to kill, so I’ll tell a story. This is the story of what it takes to ship a gtk+ 2.4 based application that will run on RedHat Linux 7.2 out of the box.

2005 08 13 The Joy of Work Comments (5)