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In my last post, about GRUB2 theming, there were a few people who were unhappy at the perceived difficulty of creating GRUB2 themes, largely based on the lack of documentation. And to be honest, those people are right – if the documentation were complete & correct when I started, then I wouldn’t have ended up [...]

There’s been a fair deal of talk on the intertubes lately about prettifying the boot process. The first I saw was a post from Lasse Havelund regarding a proposal for Ubuntu Lucid, and the second was regarding a forked version of GRUB2 called BURG, which adds some theming abilities. A tiny bit of research revealed [...]

I will be at FOSDEM in February next year. It should hopefully be awesome. Anyone who packages Mono on any distro should definitely come, or does any Mono-related stuff in general, since not only will I be there, but the fabulous Mirco Bauer too – and perhaps other wonderful people. Definitely a fine use of [...]

I’m making a few changes to my online interactions. Chicken Little Remix will no longer be updated. There will be no 10.04 from me. I will no longer be visiting certain websites, under any circumstances, courtesy of 127.0.0.1 entries in /etc/hosts. This includes sites such as Ubuntu Forums, some blogs, and some “news” sites. I [...]

[Important note: this remix is dead. Deceased. It is no more. See here. If in need try here instead] Bok bok booooook bok bok mono bok bok bkaawk bok bok bok Chicken Little Remix 9.10 – Karmic Kraienköppe Braaaaaaaak bok boooooook bok bok bkaaawk bok bok bok bok bok: Bok bok LiveCD Wallpaper bkawk bok [...]

For those who don’t follow my exciting life on the IRCosphere or Tweetoscape, I’m now officially a Debian Developer, complete with snazzy email address. What this means in real terms is that the pkg-cli-apps, pkg-cli-libs and pkg-mono teams now have a second person with upload rights, alongside the talented but occasionally overworked Mirco Bauer. Which [...]

For those who aren’t clinically dead, you may have heard of the “BBC”. The BBC are the state-ish-funded TV network in the UK, and the country’s biggest broadcaster, alongside three other major “terrestrial” broadcasters who make their content widely available without payment – ITV, Channel 4, and Five. These broadcasters also make some or all [...]

There seems to be a remarkable number of ways for people to define “Free Software” to themselves. Richard Stallman has four freedoms. Debian has ten guidelines. The OSI has ten guidelines too (but they’re different). These are all fairly detailed, and to someone who doesn’t understand the idea, take a while to explain. There are [...]

The “Mono War” is unproductive. For some, I’m sure this comes as a startling realization, and for others, it’s stating the obvious. However, the point needs to be reiterated – the “Mono War” as-is serves no practical purpose. From my diamond-encrusted Microsoft-supplied throne, here is what I see when I survey the “War”: Immovable, entrenched, [...]

It appears that pretty much every post I’ve made to my blog in the past year has been about Mono, or related topics, and caused enormous offense, anguish, and controversy. I have therefore decided to balance it with a completely controversy-free, risk-free post. A nice, safe topic. So, ladies & gents, allow me to introduce [...]