Homage to Icarus

Totem, BZFlag, Rhythmbox,GNOME Screensaver,and the User Switcher applet­Def­i­nitely check out the rest of the GNOME 2.14 screen­shots at art​.gnome​.org, this release is on track to fol­low it’s pre­de­ces­sors in the ass-kicking depart­ment, and though Xgl will def­i­nitely rock for Ubuntu’s Dapper, the biggest improve­ment is the fact that every sin­gle GNOME appli­ca­tion is noti­ci­bly faster […]

New FUSA release today: 2.13.92 (aka GNOME 2.14 RC2), mirac­u­lously ready before the dead­line (sheep­ish *g*). It’s mostly trans­la­tion work, but there’s also a tiny mem­leak fix in there.
Of course, the fixes for a cou­ple bugs will have to be worked on some more due to some (pixel-level) UI changes that just wouldn’t play along in […]

So I splurged on a new UPS Saturday, an APC Back-UPS RS 1500 — hope­fully it’ll work, it’s been charg­ing so-far, and hope­fully the con­troller soft­ware works under Ubuntu. I have an UPS already, but it’s under­pow­ered for my sys­tem. So when the guy next door turns on his (fire-code vio­lat­ing) microwave, it flux­u­ates the power just […]