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2008

GNOME Do Final Project Report

GNOME Do’s final project report has been released. GNOME Do was originally started as an academic project by a few students at the University of Pennsylvania.

I would like to direct you to page 13, where Foresight and Shuttle both receive mentions:

Our most recent release was 0.4.2., released on April 15, 2008. GNOME Do now has packages in every major GNU/Linux distribution, and is even installed by default in Foresight Linux and a few others. Shuttle, a boutique PC retailer, is now selling a line of loc-cost Linux PCs that have GNOME Do running on them by default.

Thank you to David and Douglass for all their hard work, and the mention!

Foresight 20/20 – Join the Flickr Group!

There is a Foresight Flickr group I created a while back, for screenshots and conferences. If you have a Flickr account, or want to follow along as the conference progresses, you can find the group here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/foresightlinux/.

pscott has spent a chunk of the day getting Foresight to run on his Asus EeePC – he’s booting Foresight from an external USB hard drive, and had to compile a custom madwifi driver to get wireless to work. It runs well – fairly snappy, and according to him, comparable to the Xandros OS it ships with.

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Foresight 20/20

My flight got in late last night, and Ken was kind enough to pick me up from the airport, where I met pscott and doniphon face to face for the first time.

After a snafu at the hotel (long story for a different time), we are hanging out at the rPath offices. Walk in to their office and you know exactly where you are, this is on the wall:

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I’ve met tons of people today so far, including devnet, stef, elliot, Og, Up2, mkj and more.

pscott and I are hanging in an extra office while the others have to work, waiting for some other folks flights to get in.

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You should have come to the Foresight 20/20 conference, you’d get one of these:

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I’ll try to keep up with photos and blog posts throughout the weekend.

(Sorry about the blurry photos, it’s the camera, I swear!)

T61 Lock-ups

My new T61 laptop is freezing, typically after 5-10 minutes of inactivity, but every once in a while I’m using it. It seems as if I’m actively using it, it won’t freeze up, but soon as I stop, within 5-10 minutes it just hard locks. I’ve used my T61 up to two hours without lock-ups, set it aside, and bam, frozen.

I’ve browsed through the /var/logs/messages file a number of times, but I don’t see anything in the file – just the reboot messages. I spent 3 hours last night running Memtest86, and my memory passed all the tests. I also re-formatted and re-installed Foresight a second time. I can’t figure it out.

I would really hate to have to re-install Vista to see if it happens there too before calling Lenovo’s warranty service.

Anyone have any ideas?

Top 10 Commands

Jumping on the latest meme bandwagon, my top 10 commands:

history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head<br /> 261 cd<br /> 122 cvc<br /> 120 ls<br /> 112 sudo<br /> 67 ./fixmissingfiles<br /> 62 yelp<br /> 51 hg<br /> 48 rmake<br /> 42 conary<br /> 27 geany<br />