Ryan Paul
Open Source Editor, ars technica
I'm the open source editor at Ars Technica and I'm the creator of Gwibber.
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Totally maxing out CPU/RAM with compilation/virtualization. It's time for a new computer. Six-core gulftown is looking mighty appealing.
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RT @janl : Love to tinker? Get CouchDB running on Android, win the @Couchio Nexus One: http://jan.io/Aopf
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I'm looking forward to the autosync feature in the new Tomboy: http://is.gd/aa6w5 Good to hear that U1 isn't munging notes anymore.
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@snackfight : Calling it a bad citizen hardly does it justice. It's more like a flaming pile of diseased crap.
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GNOME might finally escape from autotools hell: http://is.gd/a6bBo I really like the idea of using JSON for the build descriptions.
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Google turning Google Apps into a platform, launching a marketplace with revenue sharing. Interesting concept.
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RT @timbray : AT&T guarantees that no Android app developers will target their phones: http://is.gd/9Z7lZ
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RT @jaybushman : now that the Oscar's have ended, please enjoy a Twitter adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back at http://bit.ly/doNjt5
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Interesting. I just discovered Python's uuid.getnode() method, which appears to be based on the MAC address. Does exactly what I want. :-)
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If I want a per-system UUID for Linux and UNIX-like systems, can I rely on hostid or should I be using something else, like the NIC MAC?
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Apparently a bunch of good ways to filter for unread messages in Thunderbird. Best solution: I customized the toolbar to add a view filter.
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Anybody know if there is an easy way to make Thunderbird temporarily filter a folder so I only see unread messages?
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RT @quimgil : N900: first ARM hardware platform supported by the MeeGo project http://bit.ly/aFEfCc
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Ubuntu gets a new theme and visual identity: http://arst.ch/g23 Finally, the brown is gone! It looks pretty good. :-)
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Maybe a bit trollish, but he has a point: RT @foresmac : What Android looked like prior to the launch of the iPhone: http://bit.ly/de6w5i
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Thunderbird's detection of "scam" e-mail gets a lot of false positives. It seems to assume that any e-mail with HTML and a link is a scam.
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use D-Bus." Now they have several dozen problems.
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At the request of @mpt , I plan to implement full support for font styling and other #twitterpremium features in Gwibber 3 http://is.gd/9uaxT
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At the request of @mpt , I plan to implement full support for font styling and other #twitterpemium features in Gwibber 3: http://is.gd/9uaxT
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Oracle is apparently still planning to continue releasing new versions of OpenSolaris: http://bit.ly/aqFVCA (via @TechJournalist )
