There was an interesting thread on reddit about how glibc releases are managed. Well, interesting except for calling names at the glibc maintainer, so you have to filter out that to get the real message.

Here come the pictures:

This is a resizer grip widget:

This is an ellipsis widget:

This is the stack/flow layout manager in action. The four buttons are in the same GtkHBox, but they wrap to the following line:

I spent the last couple of weekends hacking with GTK+ making some custom widgets. The idea is that after 3.1 is out I would like to work on a nice (and innovative) GUI for GNU Smalltalk, and I wanted to get up to speed with GTK+.

I made quite a few widgets (I'm at 6 classes right now). All of them are interesting things on their own, even though each of them has at least 50% of the code copied from somewhere else. I published them in a git repository at http://www.inf.unisi.ch/phd/bonzini/webdav/gtk-widgets.git (expect rebasing on all branches but master).

I just had one of the most hilarious (for me) e-mail exchange I ever experienced.

From: <hidden@example.com>
To: <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Time stamp

I need to know how to set up a UNIX terminal log so that the time stamp 
is always displayed. You help will be appreciated!

From: <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: <hidden@example.com>
Subject: Re: Time stamp

> I need to know how to set up a UNIX terminal log so that the time stamp 
> is always displayed. You help will be appreciated!

And why should I know it?

I found that someone has a working use for java.net.SocketImplFactory, that is adding SOCKS support to Java sockets. The code is here.

I thought I'd mention this just for the sake of completeness