Nick Richards — gnome

We designed an operating system for phones too. Another awesome job from everyone in design and implementation. As ever, I’m proud to work with you all. »

If you happen to be heading to the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit in a couple of weeks then I’d encourage you to come and see my talk on designing Moblin at midday on the 8th July. It’ll be fun. »

Moblin is different. If there’s one phrase that sums up what I’ve been trying to do with the last six months or so it’s that. After all, all of the stuff that’s out there right now already exists. Doing the same thing again does not create a compelling reason for people to use your software. So we set about putting our money where our mouth was and started building something. »

After a very happy and rewarding time I’ve left Fjord and today I started working in the Intel Open Source Technology Centre with the old Opened Hand crew in London. It’s good. We’re going to make some nice stuff. I’ll let you know when you can have a look. »

I know you, you’re a sly fox. What with wanting to actually use the monitor you bought at the right resolution under Linux. But, you’re on a deadline and you haven’t got much time, not much time at all, so you hit a bit of google to pimp up those pixels and this is what you find. Edit your xorg.conf to display similar things to the content below: Section “Monitor” Identifier “Acer AL1916W” HorizSync 30-82 Vertrefresh 56-76 Modeline “1440×900″ 106. »

The 2.1.6 release of gphoto now recognises the name of my camera, the Canon IXUS 50, previously it just worked as a generic device. All it took was one email with the camera ID and name and it’s in the next release. Open source is great. »

Every so often I see something and just enthuse about it until someone takes me to one side and shows that it’s not as clever as I think. So let’s try that in real time. Today Nokia announced their new Internet tablet, the Nokia 770. Go on, click on that link and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s fully NickBuzzword compliant with Linux, WiFi, Bluetooth, 800×480 screen, GNOME, GStreamer, Debian and more wrapped up in a nice little package that they call Maemo. »

As you know, I have a love for Tomboy, the cool note taking and personal wiki app for GNOME. Such a love that I use it every day for everything and rsync all my Tomboy DBs into a master list of TODO and snippet every night etc. Yet it’s not all plain sailing, for annoying reasons I often have to use a Windows OS at work. Booo, hiss and all that. »