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Just read "As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" " and came to know about the phrase "Eating one's own dog food".

And as it turns out me is eating my own dog food as well....
There was a couple of week gap in teamgit development due to a fact that i am helping out a friend doing some Qt coding for his company. Thats too much Qt already in daytime.

But with that i am kinda distanced from the teamgit code itself (i forget fast).
On top of that, last week when i decided to upgrade to latest 2.6.28 and got interested in btrfs. Guess what i had no trouble following latest linux topic trees for both these, all from inside teamGit.

And i am quite impressed with myself. That's rare !!!

There are few operations i still have to go back to commandline (the advanced guification thing works well for most as well but not perfect yet), particularly "git merge" and any conflicts. So thats on my next top priority now.

The chinese have declared reduction in their exports for the first time in last seven years. Now come the testing times. But whats more worrying is that the chinese government warns of a social unrest if the trend continues.

Will communism be better off when dealing with a downturn or a democracy like india? time to find out.

I just switched on my old macbook again, and installed intrepid on it.

The first thing that struck me was, ubuntu theme is now sooooo old... it was good to see a new color when it came out but now its just sooooooo boring. Lets admit it folks, brown is dull.

For a mission statement of making linux desktop stunning, its not really what i will call a mission accomplished.

Themes are hard to get.

I read on slashdot the google is opening up their android phone. No strings attached, no bootloader signature checking, no hardware hacking required, flash your own firmware phone.

This is really great!!

Damn i hate java though... can't get myself to learn it. May be i will byte the bullet some day and will do just that, but it ain't going to be near future.

Update:You do have to register as an android developer though, that means $25 one time fee. So the device will cost you $25 more if you are going to register just for the sake of the device.

after 60 hours, 160 dead???? WTF

I don't think i would like to comment much on whats happening.

My only prime concern is that governments don't use this as excuse to impose more laws like the POTA or still active MOCCA. (Damn it, the confessions under police custody are admissible if arrested under MOCCA).

But it was quite successful in making teamgit a bit fatter !!!

We already have a patch adding git rebase to the backend, thanks Rejesh Kosla.
http://groups.google.com/group/teamgit/browse_thread/thread/c1f02b47a0917264
We also added patches to establish a baseline framework for the UI upstream. And had quite a good hour long hack session on finding different alternatives for the proposed UI.
http://gitorious.org/projects/teamgit/repos/mainline/commits/ac94c3fdf5c70818d25172bfc4e8e3063b3fc8fb

Some of the interfaces discussed had really revolutionary ideas from your truly , like reimplementing the listbox paint function (;-) ) to implement the commit list and its manipulations. Fortunately there were saner ideas tossed out, like using a QTreeView with zero indentation or using stylesheets  in QListBox

We finally settled on taking the ui forward  with a plain QListView with Rajagopal confidant about using stylesheets with LG liking the idea of grouping the squashed commits with a color background. All in all a very productive day for teamgit. With couple of new developers appearing on the mailing list.

Fedora seems to have picked up on teamgit announce,
that means a rpm for teamgit is ready.
Hopefully they can also upgrade that fast when i announce 0.0.5 shortly.

This happened to me as well....
from the blog post

"So weird. I usually rearrange my desktop every two weeks, often when
I am bored. Sometimes I want a quick lean, smallish desktop and other
times I want the whole shebang, all possible animations, SVG icons,
mouse gestures — you name it and I will already have tons of it!

Today I wanted to enable Compiz again and it just wouldn't start.
After a couple of tries that turned out to be dead ends I finally got
this:

/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Could not acquire compositing manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0" <br />

Some more digging around Google gave me the answer: Metacity
and Compiz fight to be "compositing manager" ...

...as soon as I disabled
/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager I could enable Compiz again!"