Category Archives: Open Source

Gnome-Shell

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Shane

I have been busy the past month so I haven’t had a chance to try out the most recent builds of Gnome-Shell I looked today and I have to say its looking really slick. I took a few screenshots It … Continue reading →

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Theora and Vorbis, HTML and Google

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Shane

What an interesting company Google is they announced that they are buying On2. On2 is the company that provided the basis for OGG Theora by open sourcing the VP3 codec. Google, Mozilla and Opera all supported the addition of Theora … Continue reading →

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Reply to Ballmers recent interview

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Shane

I read and listened to an interview from Steve Ballmer: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10301028-16.html Ok we all can agree that Mac is quite expensive but its great looking and works well. He says windows is high quality low price but we all know … Continue reading →

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Irish Translations Page on ubuntu-ie.org and the poll results

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Shane

Ubuntu Irish translations. We have been very active recently translating Ubuntu 9.10 into Irish and I created a page on http://ubuntu-ie.org/ about Irish translations of Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/node/36 Its in both English and Irish Dave from the loco helped out with … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Linux source addition

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Shane

Interesting the past few days in the Microsoft camp. First the community promise and now they submit source to the linux kernel. I think the question to ask is “Why are they taking this new stance?”. I remember reading the … Continue reading →

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YAMP (Yet another Mono post) please end the debate

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Shane

I just want to throw my size 10 and a half boot in on the whole Mono controversy. First one link that some may have not seen http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx. The community promise is legally binding. All that it contains is a … Continue reading →

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The whole RMS controversy

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Shane

Im hearing a lot about this RMS sexism thing and my only thought on it is that he is an eccentric hardcore guy. He has strong views about everything. You shouldnt care because he is a crazy old coot. He … Continue reading →

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My views on KDE and Gnome

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Shane

I am a Gnome guy I have always been but I have to say I recently started being annoyed by a few little things. I looked at KDE the one in the karmic repo I dont have a clue what … Continue reading →

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Irish translations in ubuntu

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Shane

Im disappointed and saddened that foras na gaelige and the body behind gael scoils haven’t got back to me about ubuntu in Irish. I suggested that they can use their computers in Irish and that using ubuntu would allow the … Continue reading →

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Empathy my opinion

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Shane

Ubuntu recently made empathy the default messaging client replacing pidgin and ekiga in karmic. I think its a good step because not only do you save on the space of having two programs you also save on time maintaining the … Continue reading →

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