jorge's stompbox

I can has laptop?

Jason Smith, who has been driving GNOME Do forward these past few months broke his laptop and is in need of a new one. If you can send a few bucks for the cause please follow the link to the paypal donation.

Thanks!

EDIT: Fixed link, oops.

Dropbox for Linux

The linux client for Dropbox is now available.

To put it simply - you run a client on your computers, and it syncs a ~/Dropbox directory with the Dropbox web service (which uses Amazon's S3 as their backend). You now have all the stuff you cared about synced with your desktop, your laptop, etc. As a bonus you can share directories with friends AND the web interface has built in per-file rollback version control. It's pretty hot. More info here. I use it for my wallpapers, documents, and even some dotfiles that I want on all my PCs.

Anyway this is a godsend if you have multiple PCs and whatnot, and it's the only tool in this space that I've seen so far that even tries to support Linux, and it's the simplest of its kind I've seen so far, so I give it a thumbs up.

Download here. (Note, you need an invite, and I am out, but I've given a bunch out yesterday and today to a bunch of Ubuntu people on identi.ca, so either ask around or check out their forums or something - and yes, only the nautilus plugin is GPL, the client and server are closed; so before you lecture at me go fix iFolder first plskthx.)

Not fitting in with the OSS Stereotype.

I love it how people assume that other people have certain political and/or religious beliefs based purely on what operating system they run on their computer.

Someone should do a study.

For some definitions of "awesome"

The "find" function in the gnome clock applet has always sucked, it could use some work. However this isn't what I had in mind:

World's worst dropdown. Seriously. It does succeed at me saying "Wow, screw this, I'll just shoot myself in the head."

Note: development GNOME version in Intrepid, so don't judge it just yet. What scares me is the amount of bugs I see that are like "My town is missing in the clock, please put it in there" and an unscaleable design like this. Surely there is a way to do this without an Xbox-huge list in the UI ....

EDIT: Why is it lists like this start off with the entire top half empty? And then you have to scroll down to fill them in? Is there some study that justifies this or something?