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I'm the open source editor at Ars Technica and I'm the creator of Gwibber.
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segphault Totally maxing out CPU/RAM with compilation/virtualization. It's time for a new computer. Six-core gulftown is looking mighty appealing.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault RT @janl : Love to tinker? Get CouchDB running on Android, win the @Couchio Nexus One: http://jan.io/Aopf
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault 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.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault @snackfight : Calling it a bad citizen hardly does it justice. It's more like a flaming pile of diseased crap.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault GNOME might finally escape from autotools hell: http://is.gd/a6bBo I really like the idea of using JSON for the build descriptions.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault Google turning Google Apps into a platform, launching a marketplace with revenue sharing. Interesting concept.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault Good lesson for PR people: RT @blam : I learned the last time not to believe cisco's hype. so we didn't assign any resources to covering it
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault RT @timbray : AT&T guarantees that no Android app developers will target their phones: http://is.gd/9Z7lZ
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault RT @jaybushman : now that the Oscar's have ended, please enjoy a Twitter adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back at http://bit.ly/doNjt5
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault Interesting. I just discovered Python's uuid.getnode() method, which appears to be based on the MAC address. Does exactly what I want. :-)
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault 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?
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault Apparently a bunch of good ways to filter for unread messages in Thunderbird. Best solution: I customized the toolbar to add a view filter.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault Anybody know if there is an easy way to make Thunderbird temporarily filter a folder so I only see unread messages?
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault RT @quimgil : N900: first ARM hardware platform supported by the MeeGo project http://bit.ly/aFEfCc
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault RT @mpt : For those still wondering, #twitterpremium was a joke. There’s no
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault Ubuntu gets a new theme and visual identity: http://arst.ch/g23 Finally, the brown is gone! It looks pretty good. :-)
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault 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
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault 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.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault @siracusa : where would Apple be today if Xerox had aggressively patented all those great ideas that Steve Jobs stole? Execution > IP.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault @siracusa : revenue from sales? The software industry somehow managed to thrive for over a decade before software patents even existed.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault RT @vwduder : I hope banshee gets the ubuntu music store, because I have no interest in going back to rhythmbox.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use D-Bus." Now they have several dozen problems.
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault 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
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault 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
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
segphault Oracle is apparently still planning to continue releasing new versions of OpenSolaris: http://bit.ly/aqFVCA (via @TechJournalist )
by Ryan Paul, Open Source Editor, ars technica, ars technica
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