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I’ve been working last days with my old K6-2 300 at home. I had some problems with large apps like Evolution or Firefox there, so I decided to look for another email client and another browser. Then I found two really cool ones.
Dillo is a very very light weight browser. It does not render web […]
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I’m here at work again, after 3 weeks at Köln learning German, meeting a lot of people and also having fun. What I can say about the city is “das Wetter ist schlecht aber die Leute sind toll”
I arrived Galicia on Saturday, and after 20 days without using a computer (very nice […]
I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird for two years, and I was (and I still am) very comfortable with it. Especially I like very much how it manages multiple pop accounts, the themes and mainly its speed.
But now, for some reasons, I began (again) using Evolution. I need it because its great integration with the GNOME […]
A few weeks ago I have been working with the libgalago library by Christian Hammond. If you don’t know what is libgalago take a look at this article of the Linux Journal. Basically galago is a library that provides presence to applications.
This library had a little performance issue. libgalago uses DBUS for getting/setting presences, and […]
Yesterday was another intensive hackfest afternoon. But this time no one came neither with food nor drinks . We should review our policy about hackfests.
Anyway, Iago and me were reviewing our past work about DBUS. We were trying to port Gedit to use DBUS instead of its own “bacon-message-connection”. We coded some tests in […]
Iago had a talk with Paolo Borelli this afternoon while I was rebuilding some Gnome 2.14 components. This is a little extract of the talk:
<pbor> there are other hacks that can be done though
<iago> I hope so
<iago>
<iago> sergio told me
<iago> something about dbus
<pbor> yeah
<iago> that would be interesting
<pbor> we […]
