Bitwise Evolution

I’ve started using Maven to manage my java projects, and overall I’m very happy with it. It seems to be more mature than ivy, with better documentation, and the vast majority of tasks that I need “just work” (just don’t ask me about jni–that’s another post).

Today, (and yesterday, and a good portion of the [...]

I just upgraded my workstation to Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) and the key repeat delay and speed dropped to a frustrating level.

gnome-control-center can be used to fix this, but it requires that the gnome-settings-daemon be running, which forces it’s opinions on many other aspects of my environment (I run Enlightenment dr17).

Poking around a bit, and help [...]