Archive for February, 2007

Chinese Mountain Hawk

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

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.

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OpenOffice in China

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I’m in Beijing with Robert. Having a great time meeting with everyone, including the Novell OpenOffice team.

OpenOffice Hackers in China

From L to R: Jiao Jianhua, me, Zhang Yun, Pei Feng Lin, Ji Chun, Alex Lau

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Cingular Wireless Cards

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Miguel, rest assured Tambet and Dan are hard at work integrating PPP into NetworkManager so that things like VPN will work seemlessly with the card. The kernel guys did a good job of getting those drivers into SuSE.

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Firefox and SSL

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Signing on to wireless at the Salt Lake City Airport this morning:

Alert Screenshot

Found a way to work around it by turning on various ssl2 commands in about:config, probably not the safest thing to do and I’ll turn it off again but I really need to get on the network. Boo Sprint for using this (interestingly the credit card submission piece didn’t have this problem).

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Compiz and Beryl

Monday, February 19th, 2007

David Reveman of Xgl and Compiz fame has written an excellent summary of the state of Compiz and its relationship to Beryl after XDevConf.

It would be great to have the Beryl plugin development energy back in the Compiz project.

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