landed a small amount of work which will suffice to get the bills paid this month... hopefully that trend will continue...
geek
i saw this article on byte.com and decided to give festival another try... a couple of years ago i could not get it to work but this time... well... this time i got my mind blown! :-) it sounds cool reading this manifesto:
I will promote the use of Free Software and Open Source technology where possible and plausible and where it's not I will help others discern how it may be used to interoperate with proprietary solutions. I will preserve and promote accepted standards in software and its underlying protocols. I will work to combat the universal destruction of community and creativity occuring because of the "embrace, extend, and litigate" mindset.
the dirty bird continues to kick butt... the latest cartoon highlights a very sad state of affairs...
XFce: development is really going nuts... i've moved cvs to a private host now... the troubles with sourceforge continue and frankly we don't want all of our eggs in a single basket... we've broken things up into two separate modules now... we have a stable and a devel... in just a few more days we should be off of sourceforge for everything except distribution... alan has joined the project now and that's cool... one of the things upcoming will be a gtk based terminal (without gnome-libs)... we've also got new docs written in docbook format and they are really nice... when we do the next release those new docs will be on board... the author is Jasper Huijsmans and he's done an excellent job... speaking of docbook... i found out a week ago or so that the new version of abiword will save docs in an xml based docbook format... that saved me some time on a conversion i'm doing because i lost the sgml source...
Linux Professional Institute: level 2 continues to progress... the objectives are completed and item collection is well underway... good... anyone wanting to contribute should see Kara's latest announcement for instructions
meta
i have seen people discussing their ages here... i turned 44 on 3 July.
comms
dyork: awesome news... big time congratulations... e-smith being acquired by mitel networks is a very good thing... it seems that more and more people are "getting it" as time passes
deven: please hush now... you've long since made your point... if it's broken they will fix it... if it's not broken continuing to complain about it will do little more than annoy
lilo: if the FL job comes through for you i will be happy... i certainly know how tough things are right now... let me know how it's going...
...bye...