Archives 2007

We have a tentative booking to have an XO (OLPC laptop) at the PyGTA presentation on Tuesday. I'm also going to try to get some time to both cut down and defragment the image so that it doesn't take as much disk space (I'd like to get it down to 2GB within the image and ...

Sat down with a friend who's an accountant and tried to get them to explain how to do dividends and year-end closing for a company on the accounting side. As near as I can figure it, recording the dividends works like this:

Dividend Expense (the account I was missing) gets a ${DIVIDEND} expense, Dividend Liability ...

Sat down with a friend who's an accountant and tried to get them to explain how to do dividends and year-end closing for a company on the accounting side. As near as I can figure it, recording the dividends works like this:

Dividend Expense (the account I was missing) gets a ${DIVIDEND} expense, Dividend Liability ...

I've been uploading the image since noon today, another 8 hours or more before it's finished. I've also got a torrent seeded on LinuxTracker, but that was just as slow (though that's mostly because I only had one person attached, so bittorrent was basically just creating an http download stream). (I'm uploading it to a ...

The Sugar developer's image is ready now. It has the full Gnome desktop, Sugar, Eric3 and Inkscape, as well as the normal development toolchain (gcc, svn, git, bzr, cvs, etceteras). We'll have to figure out how to make it available (it's 3GB). Anyway, it should allow a Linux or Win32 user to download it, and ...

Had our friend over to look at the books tonight. Just about every operation we attempted in GNUCash (mostly reports, exports, etceteras) failed, either just did nothing or produced reports with $0.00 everywhere. We wound up having to give her screenshots to work with! Given that Ledger SMB is still a work-in-process I'm thinking I'll ...

Had our friend over to look at the books tonight. Just about every operation we attempted in GNUCash (mostly reports, exports, etceteras) failed, either just did nothing or produced reports with $0.00 everywhere. We wound up having to give her screenshots to work with! Given that Ledger SMB is still a work-in-process I'm thinking I'll ...

Finally finished building the dependencies for Sugar. XULRunner took basically forever! Anyway, I'm now running sugar-jhbuild and have the Inkscape build running as well. I've also spent the morning reading up on the Develop and EToys activities. Those are both rather involved activities that aim to allow children to create and manipulate activities within the ...

Finally finished building the dependencies for Sugar. XULRunner took basically forever! Anyway, I'm now running sugar-jhbuild and have the Inkscape build running as well. I've also spent the morning reading up on the Develop and EToys activities. Those are both rather involved activities that aim to allow children to create and manipulate activities within the ...

I've just finished defragmenting the installed OS in the VMWare image and I'm now cloning the image. Next up is booting into the new kernel and then actually building Sugar. Yay! I want to back up the image at this point because it's taken a full week to get built and it is basically just ...