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Banshee.OpenVP is on hold indefinitely until a stable GTK+ widget providing an OpenGL context is available. All of the wrappers I have tried have serious issues that prevent this project from even making minimal headway.

I've been working with several Banshee people this week and we finally got my patch committed. All this patch does is provide a managed event that acts as a PCM and spectrum data source. While simple, it is a required building block for the upcoming OpenVP extension.

Right now ...

It's been just about a year since I started working at Ontario Systems. I'd always been lacking evidence that it's a pretty fun place to work. Well now I have a few pictures of some of the more subtle goings-on.

Here are the present contents of the ...

The new version of del.icio.us (complete with a domain name change) was released yesterdayish and looks a lot nicer. Oh, but wait. About two out of three page loads: "Sorry, you've been temporarily blocked for accessing Delicious too rapidly."

Did Delicious hire the Twitter engineers, or what?

Has anyone told you that a program is "erroring off" or that some system "errored off?" Occasionally I have the pleasure of receiving such notices and every time it makes me cringe.

Let me explain something. "Error" is not a verb. You can't error. It's not possible. When ...

About two weeks ago I started collecting statistics for this website, something I've always planned on doing but never actually cared enough to sit down and do. Two weeks doesn't make for a great sample period but the results are still interesting.

Almost 25% of visitors use some ...

There are many established CSS layouts for doing a three-column website. They seem to work pretty well. Perhaps the most popular is the Faux Columns technique.

At work we are working on an internal site that requires three columns (or to be more precise, up to two sidebars). I have ...

So I'm working on this XPath presentation for my team at work. I was trying to hack up a sample using some of the more interesting XPath functions, like string-join. PHP's DOMXPath throws a fit when I use this function so I cracked open MSDN and saw that ...

I've been using VirtualBox for some months now. It's pretty slick and doesn't get in my way too much. Just for the heck of it I've been experimenting with a few other similar systems: OpenVZ, vserver, KVM, and Xen. OpenVZ and KVM are the only two ...

My DSL and phone service is due to be activated today. When I got up I had dialtone, which is a good sign. But a few days ago I had an interesting encounter that was just too humorous not to share.

On Thursday the DSL modem showed up but since ...