Archive for August 22nd, 2005

Posted on August 22, 2005 - by jono

Firm Breezy

I have decided I am going to do some running. The reasons for this are twofold. Firstly, I wouldn’t mind clearing a bit of space and get the Bacon love battery downgraded a bit. A few too many beers and pies have created a battery with a little too much power. Unfortunately the battery is wired directly to the donut lobe in the brain. The other reason, and possibly the main reason, is that I want to get fit so I can drum faster. I have been playing a lot recently and my speed is steadily growing. To progress further I think I need to be fitter.

Had a chat with Jake from Senokian about Enterprise Groupware System (EGS) today, a new GPLed CRM that is due for release on Sep 1st. It is looking like the release may actually happen at our offices at OpenAdvantage. I saw a quick demo of EGS a while back and it is looking quite nice. They are opening the project up when they release it and it has a great opportunity to become the de-facto CRM. It looks nicer than Sugar feature-wise, and its GPL licensing means it feels a bit free’er too. Sugar is pretty darned free, but silly requirements such as displaying the SugarCRM logo are a little odd. My dream is that EGS will be merged into a desktop that is aware of CRM at the desktop level.

Today I finally got Breezy up and running. After the initial problems with the dri X.org driver, I got a system that runs but there was no GNOME panel. The current system works OK (the panel bug is fixed), but the default kernel will not boot /dev/sda1. I am sure this will be resolved soon. Breezy is looking nice. The add/remove software tool has been improved quite a lot and it provides a nice method of managing software. All it needs now is some kind of software ratings system to cut the wheat from the chaff. It will then be pretty nice.

Last night Sooz and I watched The Firm. Pretty decent film, and part of it was filmed near the Mailbox in Brum – about 5 minutes from where I am sitting now. It also has Jim McDonald from Coronation Street in it, not that that is a selling point. Speaking of films, it seems that the Lost In Translation hate campaign is growing. I never realised so many people thought it sucked.