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Bastien is indeed a big football fan. During GUADEC last year in a local Spanish bar we sat and watch France-Spain in the world cup. Standing up and screaming for France’s goal gave me some concern for my personal safety…

Robert posted a great picture of the Chinese Mountain Hawk. While at the wall on Sunday we watched it float on thermals for about 3 minutes straight.

Stefan , hopefully this offers some solace:

1. The display driver was manually installed more than likely so thats why it has to be manually updated. This is also we added the 3rd party driver updates process for SLED and SLES 10 so it automatically upgrades your driver.

2. Not sure about mozilla.

3. Likely a bug with the new autostart foo Rodrigo did, if you can replicate we’d like to know.

4. libtheora looks ok here, maybe you pulled something broken from factory?

5. xgl-config was not shipped in 10.1, did you update from factory? At any rate, xgl-config has been heavily tested and it works with and without xgl running (it sets up xgl for you, so it would crippled if it didn’t work under x.org). Please file a bug if you can replicate.

As for GNOME, it was simply bad timing with SLES/SLED, but something that the new OpenSuSE build system will alleviate in future. We are currently preparing to put 2.15.x in.

Yesterday I committed to gnome-pilot and gnome-pilot-conduits cvs patches to build and run against pilot-link 0.12 (0.11 is also still supported).

Thanks to Dave Malcolm and Veerapuram Varadhan on who’s work this is based.

Please let me know if you find any issues.

I am so on board with Joe’s anti CNN stance. I just saw a horrible segment essentially ridiculing Canada because of the stance on softwood lumber. The segment said “the WTO agrees with Canada”, sadly the NAFTA dispute resolution has not agreed FIVE times now, as recently as three weeks ago. The report said “over lumber, yes lumber” noting its only 4% of trade – I guess NAFTA should only apply to larger industries.

They also took pains to elaborate on Canada being dependent on US trade as if we should be grateful as a country that they even allow us to trade with them – we are the largest importer of American exports though with 2 million American jobs dependent on that. I will say only 25% of Canadian GDP was exports until NAFTA, now its over 45%, something Canadian politicians need to be accountable for, because we are now too dependent on exporting to the US, but to suggest we should be grateful… It ruffled a few feathers that politicians here mentioned cutting off the oil supply from Canada (which is probably grandstanding only). Then of course the segment tied it to the obligatory border security and war in Iraq as other sources of “conflict”.

I was somewhat perplexed by the fact I saw multiple CFL (Canadian Football League) games on television during my stay in Boston. Who knew. For those that care, yes there is canadian football and it differs from american football in the following ways: 12 men on the field, field is 10 yards longer and a bit wider (5 yards i think), endzones are 20 yards long, field goal posts are an the front of the end zone, no fair catch, single point for a touch back, no limit to the number of men in motion.

WRT Evolution and mozilla as the editor, we generally liked the idea, because who wants to maintain a html parser displayer if they don’t have to, but there were always worries about how to keep all the editing and layout functionality.

Calum: it is unfortunate Sun doesn’t get enough a11y credit – all evolution a11y work was done by Sun.