Tim Knapp has been successfully nominated as a Zope Foundation member

I had an odd need to run an openSUSE 11.2 machine recently, so I installed one under VirtualBox. It worked very well out of the box, with the screen nicely resizing to the VBox window.

However, when I tried to add a shared folder to copy files from the host machine, things started going wrong …

I have a Shared Folder called “hometmp” that shares my ~/tmp directory. Normally this can be easily added to a guest with

We did it! NZ is (very nearly almost) free of software patents!

Today is a new beginning. Today is my first day at Palantir.net. I am now a "Palantiri"! (That's Palantiri-speak for someone who works at Palantir.net. ;)

In January 2009 I wrote and released jQuery.dashboard() plugin, which extends jQuery to quickly and easily create dashboard UIs like iGoogle. A handful of people have using it for a while, but in December 2009, it was announced that CiviCRM 3.1 would include a dashboard feature utilising jQuery.dashboard() plugin! CiviCRM 3.1 was released late January 2010. (So this blog post is a little late!)

Thunderbird 3 comes with Ubuntu 10.04, but sadly it doesn’t integrate with the default desktop as well as it could — it doesn’t link to the envelope icon in the Indicator Applet, and it uses its own popups instead of the libnotify mechanism Ubuntu prefers.

These are easily fixed, however …