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Subject for interview found Comment

18:51 on 27 January 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu

Earlier today I posted a request for a subject for an interview I have to take for school. Very soon I got a reply from someone who said he was willing to help me out. Thank you!
If he agrees I’m going to place the English interview and the Dutch worked out version under CC at [...]

Subject needed for school interview 1 Comment

10:06 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu

For Dutch we have to interview someone who did a study we’re interested in and who does the work we’re interested in.
I’m looking for someone who has studied Computer Science and develops for opensource at his work. I’d like to ask you if you know someone who can help me with this, since there is no [...]

Idea #17462: There should be more ways of getting ideas and discussing 1 Comment

14:58 on 19 January 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu ,

Something a really like is brainstorming about features that would make Ubuntu even more awesome. Even though we already have Brainstorm and there is a UDS twice a year, I think a monthly session with experts would be something very meaningful. Ideas get a lot better when you discuss them with a group.
I proposed two [...]

Game series, part I: Regnum Online 7 Comments

14:58 on 18 January 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu ,

I often hear people complaining about Linux saying there aren’t any good games for the OS. Although I have to admit there are a lot more and a lot more good games written for Windows, I do think there are some good games for Linux. In this series I’m going to post about a few [...]

“Ubuntu Wanted revision 20: new model interface Comment

16:29 on 17 January 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu ,

Recent revisions
20. By Sense Hofstede 2 minutes ago
Not working current state of the model rewrite. ToDo: skill-task bridge and let the views use the new model interface, currently they’re broken.
via “Ubuntu Wanted devel version” branch in Launchpad.
I’ve just commited the 20th revision of Ubuntu Wanted to my working copy branch of it. In this [...]

Different news source on Israel Comment

15:59 on 12 January 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts ,

Normally I don’t write about politics not concerning technology on this blog, but now I feel I should.
As you know a terrible war is going on in Gaza and the current media isn’t that objective according to me. Next to the normal news sources I’ve been reading the blog In Gaza lately. It’s written by [...]

Idea #17084: Global writable directory 1 Comment

19:30 on 6 January 2009 by Sense Hofstede English Posts, Planet Ubuntu

Something I find irritating is that my favourite MMORPG Regnum Online has to be ‘installed’ inside a directory inside my home directory because the client NEEDS to update the resources regularry, and for that, of course, my user needs writing permissions. However, if I want to let another user play it, I have to chmod [...]