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Mobile * Mail
So There’s GMail Mobile now. Doesn’t work on my T630 (yet, I hope). Yahoo’s WAP access is pretty good. One wonders how long this mutual catch-up game will continue. Rather amusing. Hope to have an AMD64 box in less than a month. An interesting thing to note — tags – gotta love ‘em. But most [...]
As I said
Do you really want this to happen? Yes, yes, I know it’s an old article – I’m just caatching up with my reading ever so slowly now.
Cairo is in Egypt
Cairo, which GTK+ 2.8 uses, makes DejaVu Condensed fonts (kind of like Bitstream Vera, only more complete and not so fat) look noticeably sharper. Or am I just imagining things? Does font rendering get assisted by Cairo, or is it only Xft? In other news, life goes on. Work is work. Play is … hardly. [...]
Poof
So I was watching one of Scott Wheeler’s presentations (link) on what will (hopefully) be KDE4′s new metadata system. The idea is to create a system where you give up the hierarchical (directory-based) paradigm in favour of a search-based one. Maybe the solution is too simplistic for now, and a hybrid model with a shallow [...]
Wheee
So I’m at my parent’s place in Gurgaon. They have an Airtel DSL connection for Internet access. I brought Fedora Core 4 along to install on my Dad’s laptop, and what I describe here is how I did it. Hopefully it’s useful to someone. Assumption – you’re using a USB DSL modem provided by Airtel [...]
GNOME Bangalore, my butt
Happened to be visiting gnomebangalore.org, and saw this. GNOME Bangalore is most certainly not, if the “Community” (it infuriates me that this is the word used) Meet is “OPEN TO: Those currently in NOSIP and those interested to join or know more about the program.” Okay, maybe I’m wrong and it’s just an error. That [...]
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