Thank You, Automattic

Wordpress.com rocks! A tribute to the crew behind it as they passed near by.

Digital Photo Professional Linux

The installation of Canon’s Digital Photo Professional in Wine is broken.

Motors

Open Source projects are like internal combustion engines. They have cycles.

Autopano-SIFT-C 2.5.1 released

Autopano-SIFT-C has been released. It is unlikely that you will find binaries in any of the major Linux distribution because they want to steer clear of patent issues.

7: the Eighth Capital Sin?

Microsoft launched Windows 7. They must be relieved, they got it out a few days ahead of Ubuntu 9.10. And their marketing seems to be doing things better than usual. 7: the Eighth Capital Sin?

Open Source Reference Manager

Sometimes I feel that Open Source has a critical dependency: the user. And sometimes I feel that users deserve the software they choose to use, and the conditions attached to it. Last week I had one of these days.

My Personal Bug Tracker

I’ve listed the top bugs in my personal bug tracker. Number one: “The day has only 24 hours”. More.

Making The GIMP Work For Me

A really critical application I still depend on and that is not native to Ubuntu is Photoshop. I’ve been using the GIMP on the side, e.g. to access MathMap. Replacing Photoshop with the GIMP. Is this possible for me and the kind of documents I’m processing? See how I fared at processing this 360° panoramic picture of the GIMP developers team that attended LGM 2009 in Montréal.

Repository Change Notifications on Sourceforge

Many Open Source projects live on Sourceforge, a pioneer software incubator with a ten year history and a continuous drive to improve. I’ve filed an idea for improvement on their IdeaTorrent and I shamelessly ask you to log on with your Sourceforge account, look at it, and if it makes sense to you too, vote for it. Thank you. Full story.

Team Photos

Little planets make excellent team photos.