Marco Barisione’s Weblog

The Empathy team is proud to announce you that the next release of our fantastic instant messaging client will use tabs for both accounts and groups. This important change will bring Empathy closer to GNOME 3.0 following the path of other popular applications, like Totem, Banshee and gcalctool. See bug #542675 for more details.

What the release team just announced sounds like a good plan for Gnome 3.0 and also a good strategy for other future major releases. Kudos to them and to the GTK+ developers! I’m sure that they will give us more details soon both on the planet and on the relevant mailing lists. Hurray for Gnome [...]

I’m blogging from my n810[1] while having breakfast, in a hour I will be on a train to Heathrow, destination: Istanbul. See you all at GUADEC! [1] Having a real keyboard is fantastic, but how do I insert the angular brackets?

After my desktop computer died over a year ago I have had no space for mp3s on my hard disk, so I only used the music on my mp3 reader. A week ago I was able to free some gigabytes of disk space and finally I put my music back on my computer. The first [...]

Why I love icecream: $ (time make) 2>&1 | grep real real 21m52.649s $ make clean > /dev/null $ PATH=/usr/lib/icecc/bin:$PATH $ (time make) 2>&1 | grep real real 8m15.954s Note that about 4 minutes are spent linking the program, not compiling. And then, while waiting, you can watch the hypnotic icemon showing where your source [...]

$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 368 cd 355 l 274 git 231 vi 131 u 130 q 101 find 94 time 86 grep 79 svn Some clarifications: “l” is an alias for “ls -lhA –color” “u” is an alias for “cd ..” “q” is an alias for “exit” [...]

“People who open a blog should be identifiable and they should ask people writing comments to be identifiable too.” – Maurizio Gasparri, from punto-informatico.it Do I have to use my passport every time I write a comment on a blog? And what do I have to do if the server is hosted in another country? [...]

Dear LazyWeb,   Every time I log into GNOME I have to disable the “Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard” option in “Keyboard Preferences” if I want to be able to use the numpad on my external keyboard. Why disabling it once is not enough? How can I permanently disable this option?

Matthew is leaving the house to move to London: I wonder why I took a OS/2 Warp box (21 floppy disks + 14 for the bonus pack), a KDE bag and a linux.conf.au 2007 bag…

The LazyWeb was not that useful but I was able to find a plugin that does what I need. It is listed in the plugins page on xchat.org but for some reasons I didn’t find it the first time I searched. The notify channels plugin has every basic feature I need, and it’s also simple [...]