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Havoc Pennington
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Welcome to the web home of HAVOC PENNINGTON. Please see also my blog. And @havocp on Twitter. If you want, you can learn a bit about me. And contact me if you decide you'd like to.
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Havoc's Blog November, 2009
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Follow me on Twitter. Blog has moved to blog.ometer.com. See November, 2009 on new site. Blog entries for November, 2009. LITL AND COMPUTER FRUSTRATION. This post moved to http:/ blog.ometer.com/2009/11/16/litl-and-computer-frustration/. Has interesting results up for his informal survey on computer frustration. Noting that "About a third of these issues could be addressed by webbook efforts like ChromeOS. Although the webbook model will probably raise new issues as well.". We designed litl OS with Cooper.
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Havoc's Blog June, 2008
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Follow me on Twitter. Blog has moved to blog.ometer.com. See June, 2008 on new site. Blog entries for June, 2008. This post moved to http:/ blog.ometer.com/2008/06/23/vegetable-box/. Amy signed us up for a local community supported agriculture. Share this year, so we get a box of vegetables every week. This first week the box contained strawberries, sweet peas, bok choy, turnips, lettuce, spinach, cilantro, and a live basil plant. We got the idea from The Omnivore's Dilemma. And In Defense of Food. That ...
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Havoc's Blog September, 2008
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Follow me on Twitter. Blog has moved to blog.ometer.com. See September, 2008 on new site. Blog entries for September, 2008. WHY THE CREDIT CRISIS MATTERS. This post moved to http:/ blog.ometer.com/2008/09/30/why-the-credit-crisis-matters/. In an effort to outdo other software developers in nerdiness, I read a blog called Accrued Interest. Subtitle "Come for the analysis and research on the U.S. Bond market. Stay for the geeky Star Wars references.". Here's another good one from the New York Times. Here's...
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Havoc's Blog January, 2008
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Follow me on Twitter. Blog has moved to blog.ometer.com. See January, 2008 on new site. Blog entries for January, 2008. COMPOSITING ON A SECOND X SERVER. This post moved to http:/ blog.ometer.com/2008/01/28/success-compositing-on-a-second-x-server/. If you want to play with compositing on Fedora 8 using the Intel drivers, here's how I got it working. X -config xorg-dri.conf -audit 0 -br -ac :8 -nolisten tcp vt8. If you run Compiz on a server without DRI, the error is. GLX EXT texture from pixmap. Control...
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Havoc's Blog November, 2007
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Follow me on Twitter. Blog has moved to blog.ometer.com. See November, 2007 on new site. Blog entries for November, 2007. This post moved to http:/ blog.ometer.com/2007/11/21/linux-for-consumers/. For years now I've complained about the term "desktop" - an evil word that blinds us to more interesting opportunities to use free software in consumer-facing products. Look at all the recent examples. Built on GNOME technology, we've had Maemo. From Nokia and OpenMoko. For a while, and One Laptop Per Child.
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Havoc's Blog October, 2008
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Follow me on Twitter. Blog has moved to blog.ometer.com. See October, 2008 on new site. Blog entries for October, 2008. LITL AT SUMMIT THIS WEEKEND. This post moved to http:/ blog.ometer.com/2008/10/09/litl-at-summit-this-weekend/. For GNOME summit attendees. We're buying some coffee, dessert, and snacks on Saturday afternoon from a local French restaurant. Litl's founder John Chuang plans to drop by as well to meet people and learn.
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Havoc's Blog September, 2010
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Follow me on Twitter. Blog has moved to blog.ometer.com. See September, 2010 on new site. Blog entries for September, 2010. FLEXIBLE UI TOOLKIT IMPLEMENTATION. This post moved to http:/ blog.ometer.com/2010/09/19/flexible-ui-toolkit-implementation/. I'm not the sort of programmer that runs around quoting design patterns. And drawing UML diagrams. However, maybe it's useful to discuss this rule of thumb, in the context of toolkits such as GTK and Clutter:. Containers forward recursively to children. Examp...
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Havoc's Blog March, 2009
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Follow me on Twitter. Blog has moved to blog.ometer.com. See March, 2009 on new site. Blog entries for March, 2009. This post moved to http:/ blog.ometer.com/2009/03/22/spring-is-here/. Haven't had time to blog in months . Have been working on litl. During nearly all available hours. it took some time (doesn't it always? There is nothing better than getting high-quality work done with a high-quality group of people. Hoping to get it in under the wire. Emmanuele. May be owed beers. It used to be that the ...
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