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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.



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