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Alright guys here you go!

Coaster version 0.1.4 "Ingenuity of Complete Fools" is now available for download. This release includes:

Changes:

* Updated libnautilus-burn wrappers to work with version >= 2.9.0.

* Bumped gtkmm dependency to >= 2.5.5.

* Removed dependency on bakery.

* Moved all store transformations to within the store.

* Added base classes to make it easy to make more layout types.

* Implemented the tray icon instead of wrapping libegg's version.

* Added a progress dialog to show files that are opening.

* Added screenshots in the help file.

Bug Fixes:

* Checkbox issue in chooser (#158662).

* Detachable toolbar always on (#158655).

* Wrong rename accelerator key (#158658).

* ISO's deleted (#162733).

* Unhandled exception with missing icon in gnome theme (#163188).

* Crashes in gconf dialogs.

Download 0.1.4 here.

It seems that everytime I get a new piece of hardware I loose touch with the community. I recieved a DVD-RW DL for christmas, had to get that replaced because of a firmware conflict with amd64 boards, and now, new laptop harddrive.

Other reasons for being busy are easier to explain. I have been putting in a massive amount of effort at work which has drained me thus making me sleep most the day. Also, I met someone special whom I like to hang with when I am awake. So thats my excuse ;)

On that past note, the new laptop hard drive is nice. 80gig and ata100 unlike the old one. The system is a bit more responsive now and makes using it enjoyable.

Man the last week has been hell. We got over a foot of snow last wednesday and thursday and the roads are still horrible here. I went to Pittsburgh for Christmas and enjoyed the lack of snow. Christmas itself was relaxing and I look forward to New Years.

The Steelers are kicking ass and taking names, and the Buckeyes are killing Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl. SuperBowl...here come the Steelers!

Grapevine news is that Coaster should have a release by next week. This release should kill some dependencies that have caused headaches for some.

Happy New Year to All!!!

Things I like about Ubuntu. The fact that I can run most of the bleeding edge software in Hoary. Gnome 2.9 looks to be nice once it turns 2.10.

Speaking of Gnome 2.10, I hope that Coaster hits it's stable 0.2 branch by then. Would be a nice boost for Gnomers everywhere.

My AMD64 work is complete. The system is totally awesome. Gnome runs so smooth now. Xorg makes it even better. The ia32 chroot makes running legacy 32-bit applications a breeze. No problems thus far. The cool thing is the sata and how quick it is. All I need to do next is to compile a new kernel so that I can get DMA working on the cd drives.

Almost have the AMD64 transition done. Basically just dicking around with cedega and stuff. It took me a whole 10mins to pull everything else together. The ia32 chroot is sweet. It is running cedega and firefox (firefox with realplayer and flash) transparently in the amd64 side of things. I havn't come across a package not in the archives yet so thats awesome. I even went as far as to steal xorg from ubuntu's hoary. Mmmm...goodness thus far.

I am now on Planet arslinux, so here is a shout out to them for adding me.

Normally I work Mon-Fri, but since it is the season to be jolly, I will be putting in a soild 8 hours tomorrow. Sweet thing about it is Ill still be able to watch the Steelers in my office. Off to drink tonight as normal however.

Hell has frozen over here in columbus. While I was at work, some idiot shot and kill Dimebag Darrel of damageplan at a nightclub I had been to many a drunk time. CNN has the story.

I am now running the AMD64 version of Debian. It is fast as hell. Ill have to chroot i386 to run some binary programs, but elsewise everything else works.

Argh, I am falling behind on the Coaster goodness. Bryan pushed 0.1.3 out yesterday and I didn't know till 5 minutes ago. The new computer is still having issues with heat which make it hard to do much and the laptop is dead for a strange reason. Never ends.

To those who celebrate it, Happy Thanksgiving! My weekend was filled with leftovers and pumpkin pie. Now the silly season is offically started and also, it is offically kick harshy in the ass at work season as well. I will be putting in a couple of 6 day weeks here soon.

I finnally broke down and did it. I went amd64. It took me a week to hunt down a system flaw which ended up being a faulty dvd drive. I had gone through 3 mainboards, 3 sticks of ram, 3 power supplies, 3 hard drives, and only 1 dvd drive. The system works now tho and all I need to do is make sure to improve the cooling system and quiet it up. I also need to get my 10000rpm raptors this month and I can then call this system offically kickass. Specs are as follows.

AMD64 3400+ Newcastle @ 2.4ghz

DFI LanParty UT NF3 250gb motherboard

1 gig DDR400 5-2-2-2 corsair ram

NVidia GeForce 6800GT

500w Ultra xconnect power supply

SilverStone TJ04 aluminum/steel hybrid case

All in all, a damn good system. I can play everything at full detail and full resolution minus AA, but then nvidia's AA was never a strong point.

"We don't give a damn fot the whole state of Michigan 'cause we're from O-H-I-O"

Go Bucks! This was by far the best game of the year and helped to get my long weekend started off right. Too bad college football is over for OSU minus the bowl game in January.

Watching the Steelers game right now. They are kickin some serious ass this year and I think they have a very good chance of going and dominating the super bowl.

Been working on trying to figure out how to sync arch to gnome. Should hopefully have that up this week. We released 0.1.2 of Coaster on the 16th, my b-day.

Birthday was fun. Was off of work so went to the bar that night and had a relaxing time playing pool.

Coaster 0.1.1 has been released. Is this the start of a new concept that Coaster development has never followed, or is this just a flux in time? I hope this is the new way we plan to do things. Bryan is working on the release often concept which I like. This is also good news for those who have waited eons for us to release.

Half way through my 4 day weekend. I have spent most of the time reconfiguring my mail system...yes again. I wanted to switch to maildirs on the imap server so that I could use offlineimap instead of a direct connection to the server. Couple days later and a few thounsand mail transfers, it seems done. Now I only have to figure out how I should keep a synced addressbook. Any ideas are welcome.

Sine it looks like G2.8 is going into sid, I might be able to package coaster. Sid just needs updated nautilus-cd-burn, libxml++2.6, and bakery 2.3.8. If we see those packages get an update, I can get coaster made up.