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I recently installed GNOME 3 on my Mint installation. I finally cracked under pressure from my friends to upgrade back to GNOME 3 (I actually went Unity > GNOME 3 > Mint)
I've customized it to my liking, but there's still one thing bugging me.
Whenever I click "System Settings" from my menu, nothing happens. Then, when I try to load "gnome-control-center" from terminal, I get the System Settings window, but with no capplets. I get no errors from the terminal either.
Any pointers (No C jokes please) on this?

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THERE may have been no blizzards thus far in New York City this winter, but there is one place where women are confronting a complete whiteout: the beauty counter.
With names that include words like Le Blanc, Snow and White Cloud, a slew of new skin-care products suggests that they can create the look of an extra-pale complexion that has been coated in SPF 50 since birth. In Japan, where this type of item has been popular for a couple of decades, lighter skin is exactly what it promises. But in the United States, where there is a broad mix of races and skin tones, these skin-care offerings (sometimes identical to what is sold in Asia, just in different packaging) are being touted as overall brighteners, to help fade acne scarring, lighten dark spots and give aging skin a youthful glow.
"According to where you are in the world, there are different ways to express what women are concerned about," said Christine Dagousset, an executive vice president who oversees Chanel's fragrance and beauty business in America. "In Asia, there are a lot of whitening products, and that's what the category is called, which is in reference to the pearl-white skin that they aspire to have. In the U.S., it's different because it's more about evening the complexion, and it's for all ethnicities. We call it brightening. It's not about the color of the skin."
Combining the words "skin" and "whitening" might bring to mind a Michael Jacksonesque complexion transformation. But these cosmetic products, which are available in department stores and beauty boutiques, don't include strong (and potentially hazardous) ingredients to bleach the skin, like topical steroids. This new crop of whiteners also works without hydroquinone, a skin lightener that has been banned in some countries and can potentially lead to ocrinosis, or the transformation of the color of skin protein to a definitely not attractive bluish hue. And they're being marketed for all skin tones, to tackle everything from 20-somethings' acne scars to the sunspots that tend to appear on skin as it ages.
"They really have a broad demographic," said Kim Burrs, brand marketing director for skin care at Sephora.Continue reading the main story
Dr. Ellen Marmur, a New York-based dermatologist affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital, described the process. "Essentially, these all work in different ways to eliminate the pigment, which is called melanin," she said, adding, "They're all mildly effective."
Each of the new lines on the market offers its own cocktail of active ingredients. In the Chanel Le Blanc line, pearl extract works with a patented molecule that the company calls TXC, or transexamic acid cetyl ester, which is said to reduce melanin production and has earned a "quasi-drug" categorization in Japan. (Next month, Shiseido is introducing two new products as part of its White Lucent line, an eye cream and a serum, which have also been awarded this classification.)
Dior has developed a formula for its Snow line that combines birch sap and hibiscus with other ingredients, including water imported from Iceland. The La Prairie White Caviar range, which was recently expanded to include more items like a hand and eye cream, uses extracts of natural ingredients like ginseng, licorice root and — not surprisingly, from a brand that charges $350 for its eye cream — caviar.
Even without the word "white" in the names, many skin-care brands are introducing their own dark spot combaters, typically containing vitamin C, which, Dr. Marmur said, acts as an exfoliant. This month Kiehl's is introducing Clearly Corrective Dark Spot Solution ($49.50), which promises that its C molecules are so small they are more easily absorbed by the skin. Perricone MD is coming out with Vitamin C Ester 15 ($120), which is packaged in a set of slender tubes and (not unpleasantly) smells a lot like a frozen orangesicle. StriVectin Get Even Brightening Serum ($89) blends niacin with vitamin C, and L'Oréal Paris new Youth Code Dark Spot Correcting and Illuminating Serum Corrector ($24.99) uses a form of vitamin C, ascorbyl glucoside, mixed with vitamin B3, which also purportedly slows melanin production.
For less intense lightening, there is a wide selection of so-called BB Creams, essentially single-step tinted moisturizers that include sunblock as well as ingredients to brighten. These also started in Asia, but are now available in this country from brands like MAC, Garnier and Estée Lauder. The Diorsnow line also includes this type of cream, UV Shield BB Crème SPF 50 PA+++($50), in its six-item collection. In a sense, using these is a bit like intentionally applying foundation that is a couple of shades too light, but since they include physical color, they do offer instant result, even if they might last only until you wash your face.
With the prevalence of sun damage (and fair-skinned role models like the women of "Downton Abbey," Rooney Mara in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and Eastern European runway models taking over from the bronzed tanning-parlor addicts of a decade ago), perhaps it's no surprise that these products are beginning to resonate with consumers. Sheri Lee, a 24-year-old accountant, has been using StriVectin serum for just over a month, having received it after "liking" the brand on Facebook and sending in a picture of her acne scars and sun damage. "The scarring on the acne has faded, and my sunspots have disappeared," Ms. Lee said. "Now I can go out of the house without wearing any makeup and not feel self-conscious. It's made a big difference."
And Dayna Gerring, a Manhattan tutor who is 54 but arguably looks about 15 years younger, noticed that her fair skin looked more even and that its dark spots had faded after using Clinique Even Better Clinical Dark Spot Corrector ($49.50) for a couple of months. "I started putting it on, and I was like, 'You know, I think this really looks better,' " Ms. Gerring said. "And then people were telling me, 'Your skin looks better.' "
Brighteners do not work for everyone, however. "Some people's bodies make melanin so quickly that it overwhelms any topical cream you're going to put on," Dr. Marmur said.
Fortunately, the cosmetics industry is fickle; if people with freckles wait around long enough, they will probably have their day in the sun.Continue reading the main story


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Ruby Dee packed a lot of power in a tiny package. Barely topping 5 feet, 2 inches, she nevertheless loomed large.
Still, there was a softness alongside the steel, a smile gracing her face more often than a frown. There was a kindness in her eyes, a sense of inclusion she extended to a world that didn't always reciprocate. She was married for nearly 60 years to her artistic and activist soul mate — actor Ossie Davis, who passed away in 2005 — an accomplishment not many in Hollywood can claim.
Dee, who died Wednesday at age 91, made her mark on the craft early on in the groundbreaking Broadway staging of "A Raisin in the Sun" in 1959. She played Ruth Younger, wife to Sidney Poitier's Walter. It would earn three Tony nominations — for the play, director Lloyd Richards and Poitier.
Last Sunday it felt as if things had come full circle. The much-praised revival of Lorraine Hansberry's moving dissection of a struggling African American family living on Chicago's South Side would take home three of Tony's top awards, including one for Sophie Okonedo, playing Ruth more than a half-century after Dee made the role iconic.
That night a weeping Audra McDonald, in accepting her Tony for "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill," would cite Dee among all the "strong and brave and courageous women" whose shoulders she and so many others stand on.
Many called Dee and Davis the quintessential African America power couple. I thought them more an empowered couple — facing down discrimination, refusing to be stopped by barriers, racial and otherwise, every step of the way. Their influence is what earned them the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, one of the many that would recognize their contributions.
Dee often made big waves in smaller roles that somehow perfectly suited her substantial talent. In the 1979 TV movie "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," based on the life of the late Maya Angelou, Dee made her few minutes as Grandmother Baxter memorable. An authority figure, Grandmother Baxter provided a safe haven for Angelou and her brother for a few critical months. One of the many strong figures who would shape the future poet laureate's view of a woman's place in this world, Dee infused the character with warmth and wisdom.
Spike Lee astutely put Dee in his films early on: As Mother Sister, the all-seeing matriarch of the simmering Bed-Stuy neighborhood in 1989's "Do the Right Thing," in 1991's "Jungle Fever" playing opposite Davis as parents of the film's compromised man portrayed by Wesley Snipes.
Dee never really stopped working, forever roaming across TV, stage and film, wherever the work took her — more than a hundred credits in all. There is no word on when or if her final film, "King Dog," will be released. But it is another redemption story, one of triumphing against the odds.
I think one reason Ruby Dee's Oscar-nominated turn in 2007's "American Gangster" resonated so deeply is that Mama Lucas, mother to Denzel Washington's mobster, was so fierce. A no-nonsense woman who started with nothing, spoke her mind and didn't suffer fools, including her much-loved son.
The "Gangster" scene is extraordinary for its honesty as well as its intensity, a few minutes that nevertheless demanded that attention be paid. With an elegant staircase rising in the background, mother confronts son about his destructive ways. Her "Don't lie to me" admonishment is delivered like acid on a wound. The slap across his face that follows carries a sting you can almost feel.
That performance seemed very much a reflection of the way Dee lived her life: insistent that her voice be heard, whether the stage was artistic or political, unwilling to stand in anyone's shadow.
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VIDEO: Rick Fox sits down for an in-depth interview with Kobe Bryant
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant comeback playbook is written in pencil for a reason. For starters, no one knows for sure when Bryant, who returned to the practice floor in limited fashion over the weekend, will make his official return from the Achilles injury and surgery that ended his 2012-13 season prematurely.
The other variable in this situation is the work being done by Bryant's healthy teammates. Guys like Steve Blake, Xavier Henry, Jordan Hill, Jordan Farmar and Nick Young have had to carry the mantle for Bryant, Steve Nash and even Pau Gasol in early on this season. And they've done an admirable job, given the circumstances.
The Lakers are hovering near .500 after Sunday night's win over the visiting Detroit Pistons. And with Bryant making his way back and Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni getting more and more comfortable with his pieced-together bunch, a season-long fight for that eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference is not totally out of the question for the Lakers.
Kobe told NBA TV's Rick Fox that if he the playoffs were going on right now he'd be ready to play. That's a bold statement for a guy who is reportedly just now cranking up his rehab work to the point that he can eye a legitimate timetable for his return. But bold is what we all expect from Kobe. How realistic his stance is, however, is certainly up for debate. Kobe has chosen wisely when pressed for a concrete return date.
"It's tough because once I've set that as a target then I'm hell-bent at doing it at all costs, even to the detriment of the damn Achilles," Kobe told Fox. "I try to just stay in the moment and really try to listen to my body. The biggest thing is I have not done anything athletically for six months, seven months. You got to get your body back in shape. And doing that, if I was healthy — completely healthy — you have that much time off and get back in shape and your knee is going to ache, your ankle is going to hurt, your back is going to be out. So you got to go through your progressions as you normally would over the course of a summer."
What cannot be disputed is the Lakers' relevance if and when Kobe returns to action. If he's even a reasonable shell of the Kobe Bryant we've come to know over the past two decades, he'll add an element to this team that allows them to compete with the any of the other fringe playoff-chasers in the West.
If he's the Kobe Bryant we're used to, then things should heat up considerably for L.A. when he returns. The supporting cast will have to adjust to having him back in the lineup and the entire focus changes with his reintroduction to the flow of this current group.
Unlike last season, when the Lakers struggled to come up with a clear-cut identity with Kobe, Nash, Gasol and Dwight Howard as headliners in D'Antoni's system, there are no misconceptions about this team. They know exactly who and what they are, relative to what Lakers fans have been used to throughout the Kobe era. They are a blue-collar bunch that awaits the return of the ultimate competitor, a white-collar superstar whose always been a blue-collar worker at his core.
"The identity is going to be: We have to play full-out for 48 minutes," DAntoni told ESPN.com's J.A. Adande when asked about the adjustments that will have to be made by all upon Kobe's return. "And then Kobe comes back and now the identity changes, so we're OK."
Everything changes when Kobe comes back.
In the meantime, the blue-collar Lakers have to continue to keep grinding …


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Friday, June 17, 2011
SCO steps out of Central Asia
3 comments:
- Paresh said...
Sir, you make the SCO summit sound as if it was a win-win situation for India. On the contrary, the SCO member countries declared India and Pakistan have to resolve their differences before they can be admitted. This is a tight slap on the face of India. What is the difference then between SCO and the US led coalition?
I have read your posts till now and you are terribly more experienced than me. But as a third person casual reader, I realize that your thoughts and sympathies are left-leaning, anti-america and pro-China, sometime dangerously missing the point that China is hell bent on the destruction of India in the long run. Agreed, America is no-one's friend, but China's temporary friendly advances towards India are also highly opportunistic and selfish moves to further its self-interests.
SCO may be a Asia-wide platform and it is wise to be a part of it. But I would not put too much faith in it. Simple reason being, I do not believe a collection of countries with democracy, authoritarian, communist, Jihadi Islamic extremist type of governments can co-operate over a long term.
You say India should side strongly with Syria and Iran, even at the cost of Israel. Agreed that Syria and Iran are our friends, but they have never helped us over Kashmir! Israel, may be overzealous at times, but it has helped us during our crunch time in kargil, when neither Syria/Iran condemned Pakistan openly.
I respect your research work and it helps us ordinary Indians understand strategic news not generally found in local newspapers. But I just wish you would provide more fair and balanced articles instead of being overtly pro-China, even to the extent of advising unconditional friendship with China and Pakistan and unconditional enmity of America.
- June 17, 2011 at 10:22 PM
- Johan said...
Ambassador Bhadrakumar's profoundly perceptive, informed and inherently balanced analyses (and, indeed, the mainstay of the most interesting Asia Times) provide a welcome chance for serious reflection. That is the antidote to the deafening cacophony of the centrally controlled and well funded global propaganda machine to which many an otherwise intelligent but passive young man may succumb.
As for the specifics concerning the relations between China and India, there is nothing more that the global militaristic regimes - whose entire histories are those of violent plunder and living on the fruits of other peoples' labour - would like too see between the two than their all out confrontation and mutual conflagration. Hardly a mere wish of the scavengers (see, e.g., "How the Empire will Prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India?" by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25137 )
- June 18, 2011 at 11:28 AM
- Sarang said...
The pendulum swings both ways. If India China rivalry is the brain-child of Western dominated media, so is the overtly over-the-top announcements of benign nature of China-Pakistan partnership vis-a-vis India.
Even I believe Mr. Bhadrakumar's columns are high on facts yet twisted to be highly biased towards the left, meant to instill a deep sense of fear and distrust in the minds of readers about Western countries motives while conveniently neglecting the dangers of China-Pakistan strategic alliance against India. No one doubts the double-dealing nature of western countries, but one must also be wary of Communist-Jihadi alliance against a secular, democratic India. This is sorely lacking in Mr. Bhadrakumar's columns.
- June 19, 2011 at 1:28 AM


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Well, I could have said no but I remember a bike I made about four years ago . If you are willing to be a little creative it's amazing what a few minor changes can get you in terms of fitting a wider range of people who just might be on the diminutive side. This woman has raced cyclocross on a 26" wheel bike and was really not liking the beating she got from the small wheels finding holes, rather than rolling over them. Now she can roll over them-I just hope that she can steer this bike with the same authority she steered the 26" wheel bike. If that is the case, she'll go faster.
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what do you say to someone 4'10" who wants 700c wheels ?
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nice! I think I know who that frame is for. she's very excited about it!
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wow.. craziness.. cant wait to see some riding on that.
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that's a beautifully elegant solution. i'm 4'11" myself and searched far and wide until i found a mountain bike with a low enough standover for me (12" 'xs' jamis trail xr).
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Hottest Rockstar Wives: Iman, Penny Lancaster-Stewart and Shannon Tweed
Recently we took a look at the hottest rockstar daughters out there (hello, Minka Kelly!). Now it's time to appreciate the wives who brought them into this world.
From international supermodels like Iman to the star of many of our favorite soft-core Skinemax movies, Shannon Tweed, these women are a global cross section of hotness. And like many of have done before, we are once again forced to wonder how in the hell a guy who looks like Ric Ocasek ever managed to pull Paulina Porizkova. Must be nice to be a rockstar. Or a wizard, as is surely the case with Ric.


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Peter Meyerson
TV writer, producer worked on 'The Monkees' and 'Welcome Back, Kotter'
Peter Meyerson, 81, a TV writer and producer who co-wrote the debut episodes of sitcom classics "The Monkees" and "Welcome Back, Kotter," died March 11 at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach. He was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and a heart condition, said his former wife Julia Russell.
For "The Monkees," the 1966-68 comedy series featuring four Beatlesque band members, Meyerson collaborated with writing partner Robert Schlitt for the first episode and a handful more during the show's run on NBC.
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The city may be exotic, but the flight procedures are reassuringly familiar.
City: Nairobi
Country: Republic of Kenya
Status: Capital, largest city, and financial center (for East Africa as well as Kenya)
Country visa requirement: Yes, for passengers and crew, however, for North American and European operators, crew visas can be obtained on arrival (i.e., unnecessary to apply for visas in advance except for passengers). Flight crews must be in uniform and present official crew IDs. General Declarations necessary for all aircraft occupants. Passengers and crew arriving from countries where yellow fever is present must carry valid yellow fever inoculation cards.
Landing permit requirement: Yes, minimum lead time for applying is 72 hr. Recommend having local handler obtain permit for more efficient processing.
Sponsor letter required: No
Aircraft documents required: Airworthiness certificate, aircraft registration, insurance certificate with country coverage
Any other requirements for visiting aircraft: No operational restrictions.
Carbon trading requirement: No
ATC procedures: ICAO Pans Ops
Any unique procedures: No. SIDs and STARs in effect for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (HKJK). Revised ICAO flight plan in effect since Nov. 15, 2012.
Altimetry: QNH
Metric or feet: Feet
RVSM: Yes
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A legal challenge will be launched against the building of two new Catholic schools in southwest London.
The British Humanist Association (BHA) and the Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign (RISC) are planning to mount a legal challenge against Richmond Council, following an application by the Diocese of Westminster to build a Catholic primary and secondary school.
A spokesman for the Diocese of Westminster defended the application stating: "The Diocese of Westminster believe that Richmond Council have acted entirely properly in respect of proposals for the establishment of new Voluntary Aided Catholic primary and secondary schools in the borough.
"The proposed court case being brought by RISC and the British Humanist Association, a national organisation that campaigns against the existence of all schools with a religious character, seeks to use procedural arguments to prevent an entirely legitimate proposal to increase the educational choices available for parents and children in Richmond."
The spokesman said that the establishment of the new schools would provide greater diversity of choice in the Richmond area. He continued: "The proposed new schools are also likely to bring additional benefits by releasing places at other local schools which are currently being taken up by those who would prefer a Catholic education."
The BHA argue that if the council ratifies the plans they are flouting new rules from the Education Act 2011 that state: "If a local authority in England think a new school needs to be established in their area, they must seek proposals for the establishment of an Academy' [i.e. a Free School]. Proposals are then adjudicated by the Department for Education (DfE)."
A statement from the BHA continues: "Richmond Council has been clear that it thinks the borough needs a Catholic secondary school to complement its existing Catholic primaries, and that there is also a need for a new Catholic primary to provide additional places. They say that the Act allows them to go ahead with Voluntary Aided Catholic schools without first following the above rule.
"The BHA is concerned that this offers a way of opening religious schools in the face of public opposition by the back door, avoiding the competition that would otherwise be required."
But Richmond Council said that any legal action from the BHA and RISC was premature. A spokesman for the council said: "The Council has not yet taken decisions in respect of the Diocese's proposal, or in respect of the use of the site in Twickenham and therefore, any judicial review challenge would be premature."


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Joining the Cobras from across the country and beyond, these four fresh faces are looking to return Coker to the top of the Conference Carolinas standings.
Josh Peterson comes to Coker from Boca Raton, Fla. where he was a standout runner for Boca Raton High School. A tremendous runner, Peterson set personal bests in the 1600 meter, 3200 meter and 5k during his high school career. He completed the 1600m in 4:31, the 3200m in 10:10 and his best 5k time is 16:36.
Brandon Cain is an All-State runner from Southern Alamance High School in Graham, N.C. Named the 2011 4A Metro Men's Track Runner of the Year; Cain went undefeated in the 800 meter, 1600 meter and 3200 meter during his senior season at Southern Alamance. His bests times in each event are 1:58 in the 800m, 4:25 in the 1600m, 9:53 in the 3200m and 15:53 in the 5k.
Derek Nix joins the Cobras from Toms River, N.J. where he was a four-time letter winner at Toms River High School East. Listed as one of the Top 25 runners by the Passaic County Coaches Association, his best 5k time is 17:24.
Dylan Bates comes to Coker from north of the border in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. An exceptional student-athlete at Birchmount Park Collegiate School, Bates is a World Qualifier in the Triathlon for Canada. His personal best times are 27:19 in the 8k, 16:40 in the 5k and 34:35 in the 10k.
"I am very excited to have this group of young men joining us at Coker," said Kelley. "Although we are still a very young team, I feel confident that we will turn some heads in the conference this season."
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I just read through the opening post of your blog. That is a true testimonial to the way you choose to feed your family. I am so happy that it works for you and that your son is no longer sick.
Thanks so much. I cannot tell you how relieved I am to have found such a simple way to keep him healthy. Not always easy with general SAD (Standard American Diet) pressures being everywhere... but simple and do-able.
I often wonder how many other 'uncurable' kids are sick due to a SAD. I try to spread the word as much as I can.
At the beginning, it was very difficult. I wondered constantly if he would decline even further without grain.
It was purchasing the Fitday program (even though it's geared only for weightloss) and being able to track his vitamin and mineral intakes, using the charts to fill in what had been missed the day before, that allowed me to sleep at night, knowing that his nutritive intake was being maximized and well-balanced. This program helped me to feel that I wasn't just 'guessing' if he was getting enough of what he needed.
As time went on, every time grains creep back in too much, I can always see it in the rings under his eyes and the restless way he sleeps. Then when we pull them out, his energy level goes up, his sleep improved. It's really uncanny. I notice these same changes in myself along with no more bloating, and more.
If this entry can help even one other child to find health and happiness - because indeed that's what we found - it will have been worth telling the story.
And if their parents go on the lifestyle journey change with them and also experience increased health along with their children, thereby setting a great example of how *not* to settle for a lesser health status... then I'll feel like it's been worth it in spades. :)
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Call this bit of a Marine Notice or somesuch...!!
There's a "new" sunken vessel just in front of the old one on the left hand side heading out from Buckingham Lock onto the Liffey. Pictures below were taken at 14.50 approx with Low Tide due at 15.34 (0.9m). For anyone passing through over the summer, you might also note the extent of the Dodder mudbank on the right hand side. Dont forget this extends well to the left, just below the surface. The "stick" (center of pic 1) is a marker of some description, and were I bringing 31B (12'9" wide, 3'4"deep over full width) in or out, I would be driving over it. It goes under but has always magically popped back up....well, so far anyway...!! No info from WI as yet as I only noticed this today while out gallavanting in GCD with the Newry Branch.
Mick Farrell
Dublin Branch.
"New" Wreck, with "stick" marker to centre of pic....
Position in relation to "lock island" between Buckingham and Westmoreland Locks.
The Dodder Mudbank.
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Hi All,
Had a quick chat with Mark Clarke (Dockmaster, GCD) re this today and it seems that Dublin Port are "on the case". Plans were already in the pipeline to remove the old wreck before the Tall Ships arrive. In the meantime, Mark reckons that while it wont close the sea lock, it will reduce the window for crossing by maybe 30 to 60 minutes which will have to be factored into Rally plans especially. We had been looking at the idea of "overnighting" boats in Spencer anyway, to reduce the rush on bridge lift days, and it now looks as if this may become a necessity.
Mick Farrell
Dublin Branch.
A slightly clearer pic of the wreck and markers thanks to Tommy Mc Loughlin
Mick Farrell
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Dear Mr Treacy,
Thank you for your kind comments and observations on this matter. I would direct anyone interested in such a project to......(Now see what you've started Joe, I'm already bored writing this reply...LOL)....Mark Clarke, Dockmaster, GCD, in the first instance. Although the aforementioned vessel is outside of Waterway Ireland's jurisdiction, I believe that Mr Clarke has been in contact with Dublin Port, to ascertain their intentions with regard to the vessel, however, given that the vessel only came to grief very recently, it is doubtful as to whether Dublin Port will have taken "ownership" as yet.
I must also point out that as winter ends on 31st January and it is now 21st February, it may in fact be more correct to consider this a Spring Project.
Your 'umble servant....!!
Mick Farrell,
Dublin Branch.
Dont mind that PRO fella, Joe.....sure he's mad...!!
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A bit slow there Joe.
Ahh now Joe...it was'nt the subject matter that was boring me, but the writing style your overly formal salutation caused me to adopt....."Dear Mr PRO"...indeed....!!
I could'nt get a good look at her from the lock on Sunday...whats she made of...??
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> carefull you dont have a conversation with yourself !!! Another couple of
> pics below of the "wreck". Sort of very busy wih projects myself at the
> moment so wont be making too many enquiries about this metal beauty,
> Joe.
Drat....another cunning plan foiled.....!!! I was contemplating starting a
row with meself, Joe....just to see how far I'd get before the moderators
hopped off me...LOL
Dont be putting ideas into Donal's head till he gets B na B back
Lurking, Guerrilla Style...!!
Donal, they do tend to smoke a bit, normal for the beast, does she not settle down as she warms? Lots of Lister part available from India where loads of them are still made under various names; and don't forget all the tools you need are the 'beginners set of spanners'. I have a 3 in the digger, but not available as shes still needed as a digger! There was one on dungdeal a few months ago, very small money, but don't remember where. Alun
It begs the question: A "winter project" or a "life sentence"?
PS: How long has the older wreak been there?
OceanFroggie Noel Griffin
Not having a go here Noel......BUT....(LOL)......
I suspect this is one of those things that you just dont "get". Some
people do actually enjoy fixing up manky ould boats. I even know one or
two who have no interest whatsoever in boating, just the fixing up bit.
Soon as it's done, its sold on and another project is acquired. No
different really from the "life sentence" that makes one own a boat, or
follow rugby or bate a little white ball around a very big lawn or bate your
way across old canals...!!
The older wreck is there a "good" while. Pretty sure I passed it in 2003,
though not sure if it was still floating or not.
Hi Mick, Ah I do "get it", but it's just some "projects" seem tangible, whereas others seem bottomless pits for time and money with no realistic end (ie beyond realistic restoration), sometimes resulting in eventual abandonment. The boat in the pic looks more of the latter but I could be wrong. I construct flying scale model aircraft from scratch (ie from drawings not kits) and they consume humongous amounts of time even though they are only 1/4 or 1/5 scale (eg.T6, B25, etc). BUT, something the size of a boat is on an altogether different scale of undertaking!
OceanFroggie Noel Griffin
But ALL projects are tangible given sufficient resources. Therein lies the
problem perhaps. Some people are better at the dreaming and planning
stages than the doing bit. Peoples circumstances also change over time.
I doubt that anyone ever took on a project with the intention of abandoning
Here.....is this thread drift....??....LOL
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Hey, they can't all be winners right? This week, Papa Kenn reviews THE RAVEN!
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You know, watching movies that all end up getting high scores and actually feel worth my money sure can get boring. Well strike up the band, because the monotony has been broken! Directed by James McTeigue, and starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe; The Raven is a sort of romanticized imagining of the final days of Poe's life. Now I would usually consider that a spoiler, but the movie literally tells you this before it has technically even started!
John Cusack does a good job in his portrayal of Poe, with subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) hints of madness showing through; And Luke Evans does well as the fictional Inspector Emmett Fields, though the character itself is fairly bland. My wife did find the inspector to be a nice bit of eye candy though, so there's that…I guess?
The movie begins with an intriguing premise: a serial killer in 19th Century Baltimore, Maryland is using Poe's darkest stories as inspiration for his murders. The execution of this premise however, is incredibly lackluster. Not that they didn't try; you can tell that those behind it gave an effort to make The Raven good, and do succeed in certain scenes. One of the biggest downfalls in this, however, is that they were trying to make the movie too many things at once.
It's a thriller, gothic drama, cop drama, murder mystery, psychological drama/thriller/thing, and a partridge in a pear tree. Certain elements of these genres were handled well, particularly the murder mystery, but I found it really hard to care because for a thriller it sure wasn't very thrilling. In fact it was flat out boring most of the time.
I swear the screenwriters must have a severe case of ADD, because once a particular style/theme/whateveryouwanttocallit was used, it seemed as if they got bored and decided to try something else to "keep it fresh". That's all wild speculation of course, but then again the story isn't exactly Shakespeare, Hannah. I find it ironic that someone with the last name Shakespeare helped write a screenplay that feels like the mediocre fanfiction of a Poe fangirl.
Granted, the scenery is nice and does well without the Steampunk influences introduced in the Sherlock Holmes and Three Musketeers movies; but then again those movies are all based on works of fiction whereas this is a fictional movie based on the final days of a real person, so you can't exactly compare the two can you? Oh wait, a lot of reviewers already have. Excuse me then.
There are honestly three things about this movie that make it remotely worth watching, and those are: John Cusack for his portrayal of Poe; Luke Evans for his role as the non-pasty-white sans-facial-hair eye candy; and Alice Eve (aka: Emily Hamilton, aka: the love interest) for reasons beyond that She's Out Of My League (har-dee-har), and for channeling her inner Beatrix Kiddo in a certain scene.
Ultimately, this movie is "meh" at best, and I can't recommend seeing it in theaters. Your money will best be spent elsewhere, though if you're a big Cusack fan it's at least worth a $1 rental in a few months.
I give The Raven 4 out of 10.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. � Two men from North Carolina and New York have pleaded guilty to using counterfeit credit cards to obtain thousands of dollars in cash advances at a West Virginia casino.
Thirty-eight-year-old Carlo Gause of Wilmington, N.C., and 38-year-old Dwayne Fleming of Brooklyn, N.Y., each pleaded guilty Wednesday to use of a counterfeit access device before a federal magistrate in Martinsburg.
U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld said Thursday that Gause agreed as part of a plea deal to pay $155,300 in restitution to Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races. Fleming agreed to pay $34,000 in restitution.
The incidents occurred in 2010.
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Sally Field loves art. Her home is filled with the works of countless artisans, both well-known and relatively obscure. She haunts art shows and even craft shows, always on the lookout for a new piece or portrait for her home. To her intense pleasure, she struck a gold mine last Saturday, attending a new art show in a neighboring town. She found four new paintings for her home and spent Sunday eagerly finding places to hang her new treasures. All of the paintings were rectangular. Determine the style of each of the four paintings, the height and width of each canvas (one height was 24ö and one width was 27ö), and the room in her home where she hung each painting.
1. The landscape painting wasnÆt hung in the living room. The painting that was 22ö in height had a larger width than the portrait painting.
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4. The modern painting, which wasnÆt 24ö in width, was hung in the kitchen.
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Friday, 16 March 2007
Arrfinity ;)
Anyway, being without the internet gave me some much-needed time with Awn, the fruits of which you'll see over the coming days! However, it did also push me back a few days with some important stuff, so with out further ado:
Yep, thats really Affinity, no mockups, just real code, which you can get here!
Now, as this is a 0.1 release, I ask you to be gentle ;). Here's a break down of some basic features:
* Front-end to both the Beagle & Tracker desktop search engines.
* Has actions (configurable through Desktop files), which should help to speed up common tasks.
* Has in-built, user-configurable, filters which work in the the entry box, so typing 'pics:london' will only bring up pictures.
* Super-fast application searching through an in-built list of applications.
* Colours can be customised to your taste.
* Lives in the system-tray, but can be called by a global key stroke. Default is Ctrl+Alt+a, but you can change it to anything you like!
* Written in C for minimal impact on your system, but maximum speed!
More info is available on the project page. I have removed 'Favourites' for now as it was a bit unstable, but it should be back in over the weekend.
Please bear in mind that Affinity currently only works on gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10, I am working on 2.8 support. Also, Affinity should work without RGBA (i.e. without Beryl or Compiz), but this has not been extensively tested.
OTH, it shouldn't take down your system or anything ;p. One bug that I do know about is that scrolling up & down fast on the treeview widget will cause artifacts to appear, which disappear when you move your mouse over them or press a key. I'm sure that this is just some teething pains between Gtk + RGBA, but I'll try and fix this ASAP.
Also, an I probably should have blogged about this sooner, shortly after I published the Affinity mockups, I got an email from a person who wanted to make something similar for OS X! Lol...who'da thunk it? The application is called Loro, and is free software. He is working on some really cool ideas, such as Google maps integration, check out his blog for more info.
Anyway, better get to bed, I'll leave you with some more screenshots:
63 comments:
It looks great! I am awaiting future releases.
- 16 March 2007 at 02:10
- Piotr said...
It's 3:30 AM here so im gonna try tommorow. Is this a gtk engine/theme or only some modification to beagle-search? Because I always understood affinity is a gtk engine/theme. Your screenshots don't confirm this.
- 16 March 2007 at 02:24
"Lives in the system-tray"
I have a cautionary tale for ANYONE writing ANYTHING that lives in the system tray.
It's called 'my father's desktop'.
nobody wants that.
ask yourself: do I really need to be in the system tray, or am I just being lazy? is there a way to provide all the convenience of being in the system tray without wasting 576 pixels of my poor user's pixels and adding to the ugly crap collection in the bottom right hand corner of the screen? :)
-adam w.
- 16 March 2007 at 02:39
better link...
-adam w.
- 16 March 2007 at 02:40
- pollycoke said...
just wonderful, already tested...
Neil please, dont' release such cool apps in the middle of the night, I'm trying to get some sleep! ;-)
- 16 March 2007 at 02:52
- Corey said...
Dude, rocking. Any chance you could roll this stuff into the deskbar applet for 2.20?
- 16 March 2007 at 03:35
You are contributing a greater and greater percentage of code to my Ubuntu box :) .
Keep up the awesome work! Oh, and welcome back!
LL (Loyal Lurker)
- 16 March 2007 at 04:06
Where do I report bugs? Where can I send patches? Translations? Need anything else?
- 16 March 2007 at 04:13
- Patrick said...
Very nice. I played with the colours a little. Here's mine.
- 16 March 2007 at 04:46
- Johan said...
Very cool! Neil, are you going to GUADEC? I think gnome could benefit greatly from some of the main "bling architects" getting together and brainstorming.
Apparently it's in Birmingham this year.
- 16 March 2007 at 04:50
This is awsome stuff you har contributing with, i hope you are going to GUADEC to spice things up. :)
- 16 March 2007 at 06:11
Wow. I can't wait to see this hit the Ubuntu repos.
- 16 March 2007 at 07:01
- Neil J. Patel said...
First of all, thanks everyone for the support!
piotr: Hi! This is its own application. I mentioned it before, sorry if it was confusing. Affintiy hopes to be a quick way to bring up apps/files/contactss/bookmarks etc. Regarding the GtkTheme, I have actually made some good progress which I will blog about soon. Its quite difficult as I don't want to have patches against main Gtk, so there are a lot of work-arounds, hence the delay.
@Adam: How I look forward to your comments ;). Don't worry, it is not meant for the sys tray, it will be a panel applet, either as a button, so it can act as a main-menu, or just a small icon to activate/close it. What do you think? Should there be an option for just a standalone version (i.e. without tray or applet)?
@poolycoke: Lol, yeah I'll keep that in mind next time!
@corey: It should be possible. ATM I am a bit short of time, but I can def. help the devels if thery are interested!
@Sindre: Hi, links to reporting bugs are on the project page, you can send patches & translations directly to me : njpatel_AT_gmail_DOT_com :).
@patrick: looks cool, I will sort out the font sizes in the next release.
@Johan: Thanks! I'll def. be at GUADEC this year! As you said, its in Birmingham, and therefore I have no excuse.
@Filip: Thanks! I hope to be there this year!
- 16 March 2007 at 10:15
"without further adoe".. thanks for rocking software!!!
- 16 March 2007 at 11:20
- Piotr said...
Then maybe you COULD do this : write a composite-aware gtk engine! Thats what i always thought you were aiming at! Just think : apps could look so much more sexier with no or minimal app modification. Think how cool would totem, or Rhythmbox or Banshee look.
- 16 March 2007 at 12:43
- Neil J. Patel said...
@anon: thanks :)
@poitr: I am! It has taken some time because it can be quite buggy. When I have something remotely usable, I'll blog about it, and everyone can test it :).
- 16 March 2007 at 12:50
nice work, i think you already mentioned it but by default I think it should use the gtk theme colours, otherwise it looks out of place on the desktop when you first start it up.
I am not sure about the sys tray thing, as i am using awn it would be pretty good if it just sat in the applications list, then again if the person isnt using awn this wouldnt work. A panel might work the best. Althgouh how about a 'close to systray' option? That would mean ppl could dock it to the sys tray of awn.
It would be cool if this integrated into telepathy some how, many a future requirement though.
Maybe a way to browse applications would be good, it could list recently used applications then an option to launch to the application browser. At that point though its replicating alot of the functionality in the gnome-main-menu.
But anyway this is really good stuff as usual, i will have one last rant about the gtk theme coz i think thats important if this is going to become part of gnome.
One last thought maybe this would be linked into a help system in some way? If a new user wants to figure something out if could integrate with yelp or something I dunno.
Anyway nice wwork man, keep it up!
- 16 March 2007 at 12:53
Rather than an applet or stuck in the system tray, wouldn't it be better to have it come up on startup and/or bind it to alt+space like app rocket on windows or quicksilver on mac?
- 16 March 2007 at 13:24
- Neil J. Patel said...
@anon: Yeah, I am making an option so it can use Gtk theme engine colours.
After getting more feedback, I think i'll have it as a stand-alone app, with a --enable-tray and a --skip-taskbar option. That shoudl cater to most tastes. I will then work on making the applet more unique (I have cool ideas about this).
Reagrding telepathy support, I hope to have a galago backend, so that would take care of both Telepathy & Gaim.
The browser idea is quite cool, I was think of something along those lines. It would have to be a seperate window, but could have the same effects. Let me see what I can do.
Yeah, a Yelp backed sounds quite cool. I'll see if it can be done.
Thanks for the feedback! Lol, after you've been coding for a few hours, your imagination dwindles, so having some outside input really helps!
@anon: Yep, thats what I hope for in the new release.
- 16 March 2007 at 13:38
- Gavin said...
I have your blog's feed in Google Reader, and whenever it says "the dude abides (1)" it's like christmas all over again. I'm grabbing that code right now... I was waiting for it. Probably won't work for me though. ;) We'll see...
- 16 March 2007 at 13:39
- Gavin said...
Yeah, it didn't work with the featured version, but I tried SVN and it WORKS... I just have to try it out now... :D
- 16 March 2007 at 14:28
- carl said...
You ideas are extremely refreshing! I would like to try some of these... Is the installation easy if I use the rpms? I have very little experience with fedora and rpm, I guess that you run FC6 to develop?
Thank you!
- 16 March 2007 at 14:34
Whee! This sort of stuff must get to the standard Gnome! Preferably in the PREVIOUS stable release already!
- 16 March 2007 at 16:35
This looks really great! I will have to give this one a try.
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- 16 March 2007 at 17:21
- Oleg said...
highlight the search term, that's very important
- 16 March 2007 at 17:32
Reminds me of the one found in the Sky Operating System
- 16 March 2007 at 17:43
- Pieter said...
"a due" => ado
- 16 March 2007 at 17:49
Ooo... Looks like Vista's built in search. I like it!!!
- 16 March 2007 at 17:49
- GWB said...
Hey, I just found this great stuff you've been working on, and I have a question, does it work under KDE? I'm running beryl 0.2 w/ XGL. I know it says for GNOME, just curious because it looks awesome and would be fun to use it. I'm using OpenSuse 10.2. Thanks. - firstname.lastname@example.com
- 16 March 2007 at 17:55
- brent said...
this looks fantastic! please tell me that there's a future in this to launch applications as well. i use quicksilver for osx and i have yet to find anything offered for linux that's comparable.
- 16 March 2007 at 17:57
without further ado
- 16 March 2007 at 18:05
I have a cautionary tale for ANYONE writing ANYTHING that lives in the system tray.
It's called 'my father's desktop'.
nobody wants that.
ask yourself: do I really need to be in the system tray, or am I just being lazy? is there a way to provide all the convenience of being in the system tray without wasting 576 pixels of my poor user's pixels and adding to the ugly crap collection in the bottom right hand corner of the screen? :)
-adam w.
...Two points.
A) This application is for Linux, not Windows.
B) Your father's "System Tray", as shown in that picture, is his Quick Launch menu.
System Tray = A place where running background applications can sit, so you know they are running, and you can work with them when you need to.
Quick Launch = A place to store icons for apps you use a lot.
Again... Your complaint, that you don't like the idea that this linux application has an icon in the gnome panel (System Tray : ' J) because your dads quick launch menu on his windows machine has a lot of stuff in it... That's wrong.
It's wrong.
Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong.
Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong.
You're Wrong. You're Wrong.
You're Wrong. You're Wrong.
You're Wrong. You're Wrong.
You're Wrong...
So, to answer your question as to if there is any way to keep the convincence of having a system tray (hereby refered to as a Quick Launch toolbar) while not having it take up a lot of space on your taskbar... that's simple, too.
On your daddies taskbar, you'll notice two rows of small dots partitioning your quick launch toolbar from the rest of your taskbar. Imagine those dots as little handles, and drag them towards that big green thing right beside that plastic thing that the arrow pointer-majig won't go past (We'll start calling this 'the edge of the screen').
Holy SHIT!!!!1 Did the syst- err, Quick Launch get real small and an arrow appear at the end of it? Click that little motherfucker, and you get EVEN MORE SHIT TO LOAD!!
Ab-so-lu-ut-ly Amazin'
Glad I could pitch in, buddy.
- 16 March 2007 at 18:07
- Astral said...
i love it, just one problem... the icon doesnt show. how could i fix this?
- 16 March 2007 at 18:08
- Neil J. Patel said...
@carl: I hope to make a 0.1.1 release this evening, so I'll make some FC6 rpm's at the same time!
@erich: thanks!
@oleg: I'm not sure what you mean, it already highlights the text when you focus the entry (Ctrl-L).
@pieter: Thanks :X
@gwb: I can't guarentee it will work great, but you can try it out, and make bug reports for what doesn't work and I'll try and fix it :)
@brent: it has app launching! Just start typing the apps name, or description, and it will show you a list. The App backend is independant of Beagle/tracker, so its much faster.
- 16 March 2007 at 18:11
Wow patrick that looks awesome. What icons and theme are you using in the backround?
- 16 March 2007 at 18:31
Wow, linux has come a long way in...borrowing ideas from their competitors and trying to drum up excitement over it.
- 16 March 2007 at 18:31
- Alan Horkan said...
That screenshot does show both the quick launch and the system tray, both of which are crowded. Usually they would use those overflow/hidden widgets so as not to waste that much space. The main menu is only barely managable since most applications play fair but even then it can still be quite unweildy. Much as we might beseech developer we can depend on a design that relies on third parties playing fair though now can we?
The big traditional excuse for abusing the system tray is that applets do not work with KDE or anything else. That may not be your reason for doing it that way but it is a great excuse.
- 16 March 2007 at 19:17
thanks for your work! I like your way to see the gnome and gtk development... plz implement this look by a patch in the gnome-panel! that would be cool!
- 16 March 2007 at 19:29
- Pensador said...
That is great!
- 16 March 2007 at 19:34
I prefer KDE, the best desktop of the world
- 16 March 2007 at 19:50
- Patrick said...
@derek: background is from a Google search for 'orange' believe it or not! Theme is Human and icons are Dropline Neu!, both available from Gnome-Look.
- 16 March 2007 at 20:28
- gcb said...
and does it HAVE to look like vista's start meno?
- 16 March 2007 at 22:52
neil: hehe, sorry - you can take the 'it rocks!' as read, if it wasn't great I wouldn't even be bothering commenting :)
i think for classical gnome-panel users implementing it as a button would be good. and yes, there should be a standalone mode, for instance for alternative panel users: think about any panel that acts like the Dock, you can just run affinity in standalone mode all the time.
-adam w.
p.s. Mandriva is in version freeze for our next release right now, but I or someone else will package this up as soon as 2007.1 is done :)
- 16 March 2007 at 23:25
- EnricoTuxMind said...
Excellent Neil...how can you imagine these beautiful ideas ? it's a good work and you must keep fixing it, and bring some new ideas for GNOME 2.20..
- 16 March 2007 at 23:35
This is a really nice app. keep up the good work. cheers from Maldives. u've got a new fan.
- 17 March 2007 at 00:15
Ok, haven't read all above comments, but:
This file needs to be there, otherwise affinity crashes: ~/.gtk-bookmarks
(aff-sidebar.c l. 252)
-- Mark Gjøl / http://b0rken.dk
- 17 March 2007 at 00:29
In Ubuntu, we have a panel item called Deskbar... I think it does the same thing like affinity-search, i guess.
- 17 March 2007 at 03:13
- César said...
The Deskbar applet is available for any GNOME desktop, not only Ubuntu :P
Great work nj.
- 17 March 2007 at 05:27
- Jon said...
Great stuff! One suggestion: can you make it so when I right-click on the sys-tray icon the menu includes preferences? I'm sure there are many more profound things to add in, but...
- 17 March 2007 at 13:01
- mike jones said...
think i need to re-design the wiki hompepage, to make it show awn and affinity?
any ideas?
mayeb people can make homepage ideas on the wiki somewhere and i will make the best looking one the new homepage for the wiki.
- 17 March 2007 at 13:18
- Timon said...
A nice feature would be that the input field can also act the same as the run-dialog from gnome.
If so, it could replace the gnome-run-dialog, and you can easily start programs where you already know the exact name of.
Or it could be that affinity selects the "best result" out of the list while you're typing. On "Enter" it will open that file. It is much faster than to grab my mouse to click on the only (or best) result in the list.
- 18 March 2007 at 13:20
- mauro said...
Action Engine : Scanning /home/mauro/.gnome2/affinity/actions
Action Engine : Scanning /usr/local/share/affinity/actions
Application Engine : Scanning /home/mauro/.local/share/applications
Application Engine : Scanning /usr/local/share/applications
Application Engine : Scanning /usr/share/applications
Application Engine : Scanning /usr/share/applications/kde
Application Engine : Scanning /usr/share/applications/screensavers
Desktop Search Engine : Tracker
(affinity:11100): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_load_icon: assertion `error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
(affinity:11100): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_load_icon: assertion `error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
(affinity:11100): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_load_icon: assertion `error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
and now?
- 19 March 2007 at 16:30
- Phrodo_00 said...
Really nice, in fact, the box is working better than the one in the official tracker gui, I'm now kind of forcefully using it since in archlinux deskbar got kinf of broken after the upgrade to python2.5 (affinity-preferences did too, I think I'll need to take a look at that).
Is there a way (most likely for the distro package mantainer) to customize what the buttons in the right are for? (mainly because I made this package to the unsupported community repo and in arch we don't have a decent gui package manager so I might replace that for a terminal) I've even looked at the code yet I cannot find it (I still haven't finished learning gobject/gtk).
And now that I'm talking about the package... the main icon, the one besides the searchbox and all the ones in the bottom right have no icon... where does it looks for it? so I can package them altogether.
btw... this is the best blog in all gnome planet =)
- 20 March 2007 at 02:37
Wow, I'm surprised! It's exactly the same kind of prog I was playing around with the last days. Including the "keyword colon" filter thing ;-)
Thanks a lot!
- 20 March 2007 at 07:28
- Jack Kerouac said...
Nice updates to AWN and Affinity. I especially like the window previews.
Neil, are you planning on making the icons expand ala Mac Dock? I thought you were, but there were some issues. If so, any rough ETA on that?
Keep up the great work!
- 21 March 2007 at 02:28
- Daniel Maclean said...
Great stuff dude. Wonder if I could suggest a little feature, prob take you two seconds. Would it be possible to show the users login photo on the top right, i´ve made a quick mockup of what I imagine it to look like:
- 21 March 2007 at 16:57
- Patrick said...
Are you still alive?
- 31 March 2007 at 06:08
- Daniel Maclean said...
LOL, good question, i was wondering that too.
- 31 March 2007 at 16:56
- Mithras said...
This is a really cool app, but wondering too if you still developing on those great apps (affinity and awn).
The systray is indeed not a very good place. I'd rather like that it's possible to launch affinity with a shortcut. Like the gnome-launch-box for me does with Ctrl+space. It works very well, so i hope affinity will get this sort-of feature too.
And i have one bug/enhancement: running affinity and
"closing" the window doesn't quit affinity. If you launch affinity another time, you have two affinities in your systray. It'd be much better if the old affinity will popup, so you cannot launch it a second time :)
- 31 March 2007 at 17:09
Are you still alive?
- 3 April 2007 at 23:22
- Forbes said...
congratulations on the new job (I assume this is new for you).
I guess this is what has been keeping you busy the last coupole of weeks. Hope they don't distact you too much from your most important work ;)
Thanks for your great projects so far.
- 4 April 2007 at 01:25
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- 21 July 2007 at 18:49
WooW =)
- 2 August 2007 at 11:22


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Women of a certain age should not paddle canoes. At least, that's what my body said.
While my body screamed for mercy the day after a canoeing expedition -- which lasted barely an hour -- my mind valiantly fought for rational thought.
Calmly, through a web of aching muscles, my mind counted all the times when I was younger that I exercised parts of my body that were not accustomed to it. At that time, I accepted the pain for what it was. And what it was not, was a symptom of getting older.
No, my mind said, I had those same aches and pains when I was a teenager after a nine-hour bicycle trip (which is something I wouldn't even consider now). I would think, "Ooh, that hurts. I must get more padding on that seat next time." (Next time??) I did not think, "What are you doing, lady? You're too old to be peddling around on a bike for nine hours!" Sometimes I'm mean to myself.
The difference seems to be that I now have a convenient excuse not to over-exercise. I'm not lazy, I'm simply getting older.
And... I'm lying to myself. The fact that I can, indeed, paddle a canoe and not hurt until the next day says I'm not too old to paddle a canoe. The pain the next day is just my body letting me know what it thinks of my decision.
Some say that if I don't want to ache after paddling a canoe, I have to do it more often. This has never made sense to me and is the problem I have with every exercise.
They are saying, "It's going to hurt unless you do it more... which will hurt." Somewhere, a higher power is giggling about this conundrum. To make matters worse, at some point, we have convinced ourselves that all that hurting is good for us.
Obviously, paddling a canoe gives me way too much time to think.
I digress...
On barely functioning limbs I hobbled to my medicine cabinet to get the little white miracle pills, better known as aspirin. Doctors say you are not supposed to take aspirin every day. It could cause stomach problems. They also say you should exercise every day.
Apparently, there is a conspiracy afoot to create a pathetically paralyzed public. You should exercise and hurt yourself daily because it's good for you, but you shouldn't take aspirin daily because it's bad for you. Who wrote these rules and how did they get it through Congress?
I'm so confused, I'm thinking about boycotting exercise altogether. The question is: Does paddling a canoe constitute exercise? It hurt, so... yes. But I enjoyed it, so... no.
Okay, so I'm boycotting all exercise except that which I enjoy.
It would be best not to test my conviction on this. I usually enjoy it until the pain starts. If I'm in a canoe in the middle of a lake when the pain starts, I'm going to be in the middle of the lake for a long time... thinking. And you can see where that has gotten me.
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