In other news! If there are any Gentoo users (or for that matter, developers) out there who use Jabber, feel free to come along to the Gentoo chatroom on Jabber (xmpp:gentoo@conference.jabber.org?join). I'll attempt to hang out in there as much as possible, and it would be nice to get a nice 'lil community going in there

Just a heads-up to all you Gnome (and possibly Xfce) users out there: There are currently around 9-10 packages in the tree which use the 'keyring' USE flag to enable support for the gnome-keyring package. As of this evening, this USE flag will become a global USE flag, and the name will be changed to 'gnome-keyring'. See here for more details on the decision.

Now, you might think that Jabber is too geeky, too oriented towards random Free Software Fighters, to be really useful for "normal" people. Well this, I believe, is where you are wrong! Jabber is being adopted more and more, GTalk has used it for a while, so if you have a GMail account, you automagically get a Jabber account! And, what's more, you can get a Jabber client on your GMail homepage! (This is what my mum uses - I don't know whether she would be able to handle a full blown Jabber client, but GMail's webclient is perfect for her needs).

I also think that the general movement from Windows to OSX by the general population could fuel Jabber, especially as one of the more popular clients, Adium, as it is based on libpurple, supports multiple protocols, including Jabber. This means that OSX users who opt to use Adium can use it for their GMail accounts (Okay, I might be making a bit of a stereotype here, by assuming that all OSX users use GMail, but it's generally true), as well as their MSN/AIM/ICQ/Whatever accounts in one client!

Oh, and in case you're wondering, my JabberID is welpie@jabber.org - just in case you wish to help me on my way to 200!

As many of you are aware, I've been away from Gentoo quite a bit recently... Holidays, parents splitting, moving house, etc, etc. But! I have been attempting to slowly ease myself back into the Gentoo lifestyle, and I did some amd64 arch testing, fixed a few bugs and did some work for the GWN today. Tomorrow, I'll likely be mostly AFK again, but should still be able to get something done. Looks like the amd64 team is again needing an extra hand to get the number of stable requests down to a sane number... From what I can tell, there are only 1 or 2 devs dealing with (or rather, attempting to deal with) the crazily large number of stabilization bugs. Looks like I'll have to go on another couple of sprees .

Anyway. Yesterday, I got messing around with the Gnome-2.20 update on my laptop, and somehow, one thing led to another, and I have now got NetworkManager working perfectly, pam_keyring and pam_ssh working perfectly, my email setup more or less perfectly with evolution, Gajim's working beautifully, almost everything on this system is just how I want it... There are just a couple of little niggles, such as bug 188618 - the icon for gnome-power-manager doesn't appear, so I have to manually restart the the program before I can get my battery life monitor >.

Next up on my todo list is to get my two Gentoo/FreeBSD machines up and running again, so I can get fixing bugs for that, and then... That's about it. I think I want to get my hands on some form of server so that I can run my own Jabber server (I currently have an account on jabber.org - welpie@jabber.org - but would rather run my own Jabber server. Just 'cos I like to admin stuff ), but that's somewhere closer to the bottom of my todo list for now.

Hopefully, you guys will be getting more regular updates from me over the next few months .

Went to two different pubs this evening, with Naib, UberLord, igli and leio, played some pool, snooker, drank some stuffs, met up with edit_21, Hanni, taviso, christel, NeoThermic, NeddySeagoon, dertobi123, AllenJB, and a whole load of others! T'was all good fun! Now I'm at igli's place. I've finished all my food, igli and leio are still eating their chicken n' chips ^_-

As for leio's blog post complaining about my lateness, I blame... Uh. The train. It was 4 minutes late *nod* That's a good enough excuse for me. =)

And, now I'm off to start folding the programs for the event... Then I'm gonna try and get some sleep. Then I shall be heading off to meet edit_21 sometime this morning.

That's around 10 inches of hair I got lopped off! Gave the hairdresser a laugh