Wednesday 24 October 2007
By hub,
Wednesday 24 October 2007 at 17:57 :: Free Software
Gimp 2.4 has been released . And now this piece of Free Software as a website that is as annoying as various non-free software by requiring to install a piece of non-free software to view content.

Welcome Gimp to the land of the non-Free hype. See for yourself.
Update: as Alan commented, bug 489958 has been filed.
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Friday 19 October 2007
By hub,
Friday 19 October 2007 at 14:50 :: Gnome
Joe, congrats!
Best wishes to the bride and the groom.
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Wednesday 17 October 2007
By hub,
Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 13:18 :: Nokia 770 / N800
I had a dream. Apparently, the dream came true.
And the added GPS is the icing on the cake. However I wonder if the GPS chipset driver is Free Software.... as OpenMoko seems to have had issues with the GPS solved by changing the supplier.
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Tuesday 16 October 2007
By hub,
Tuesday 16 October 2007 at 17:26 :: Linux
Thomas, for my spam filtering I use Bogofilter in combination with maildrop on my server. I followed this recipe that I improved with my own setup and since I mostly forgot I was receiving spam.

The only caveat is training the filter for false negative, what I just to is move them to a "Spambox" folder and run bogofilter -s -B *
in there. And for those who wonder, I didn't feel the CPU usage on my P2 @266MHz. Beside patching courier IMAP to have hooks for the Junk/NonJunk flag and have Evolution actually set them (Thunderbird does it) I don't see another easy solution.
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Sunday 14 October 2007
By hub,
Sunday 14 October 2007 at 20:11 :: Gnome
Some linkage relating to digital photography with Free Software:
- Argyll CMS solve the problem with calibrating your
screen device. Hardware manufacturers are not cooperative and the list of device is limited. ArgyllCMS is licensed under GPLv3. I just packaged it for openSUSE (pick your repository). I'll talk more about it when (if) I get the hardware.
- Calibrating your scanner works if you have a calibration device and a target.
- 16-bits color managed workflow using UFraw and Cinepaint, with a screencast video (in Ogg-Theora)
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Sunday 7 October 2007
By hub,
Sunday 7 October 2007 at 21:26 :: Technology
What if Google was really evil? This short fiction story by Cory Doctorow could be the reality...
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By hub,
Sunday 7 October 2007 at 00:57 :: Picture of the day

A bumblebee. Moorside, Parc de la Gatineau, Québec, Canada - September 29th, 2007
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Saturday 6 October 2007
By hub,
Saturday 6 October 2007 at 18:15 :: Gnome
In the steps of hadess, I created the gnome-raw-thumbnailer module in GNOME subversion. This will be in the end the official repository of this little project that I can't leave with.
It is a thumbnailer for camera RAW files using libopenraw.
Current limitations:
- only handle the format that libopenraw knows about
- do not (yet) rotate the thumbnails. Will do when I can get the information from libopenraw.
You can get the 0.99 release I did a while back. The SuSE packages are in the build service.
I'd love to this shipped by default.
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Thursday 4 October 2007
By hub,
Thursday 4 October 2007 at 21:43 :: SuSE
Green is the dominant color for openSuSE 10.3 that got released today. Congrats to the whole team !
Get it now !
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Tuesday 2 October 2007
By hub,
Tuesday 2 October 2007 at 14:26 :: OpenOffice.org
I finally flipped the switch on go-oo.org and tinderbox. They are on the new hosting we have for the project.
It is the time where we discover a lot of problems (forgotten things, etc). Feel free to poke me if that is the case.
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By hub,
Tuesday 2 October 2007 at 14:23 :: Gnome
Finally I won't be at the Boston Gnome summit this year either.
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