by Jono Bacon | Jan 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
Today is [Holocaust Memorial Day](https://www.hmd.org.uk/default01.asp). Today marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in 1945. It is mind-boggling to think of the sheer scale of human...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 26, 2006 | Uncategorized
[Dave](https://blogs.gnome.org/view/bolsh/2006/01/26/0), I agree with you, and this is one of the difficult aspects of our community. Then again, this affects all communities. If anyone is to stand up and violate the fabric of a community, retaliation is common. This...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 26, 2006 | Uncategorized
People of the world, rejoice, for I have fixed my comments page to prevent automated comment spam. Now when you add a comment, you are asked to add two numbers together. This is quicker than having to generate a captcha image and more accessible. This news will no...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
Last night I spent a few hours hacking on RaccoonShow and resolved the bug with the PDF to JPG conversion. It seems the bug was triggered in an older version of Ghostscript (7.07 and below). In later versions of Ghostscript the conversion is fine. I am also using...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 22, 2006 | Uncategorized
This weekend I started a new project which I have codenamed *RaccoonShow*. For a while now I have been wanting to find a tool that can take a presentation file, an audio file of the recorded talk and squeeze them together into a flash animation. I am certainly not the...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I published an article called [Building up the Advocacy Community](https://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/9057). This short piece just discusses why the advocacy community has slowed down and focuses on how to build the community back up. My band,...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 18, 2006 | Uncategorized
This is probably of most interest to subscribers of [Planet Advocacy](https://planetadvocacy.jonobacon.com/), but I will be giving a talk about sensible advocacy entitled *On the Front Line: Convincing People of the Inconvincible* at [Manchester Linux User...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
[Patrick](https://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/patrickf?entry=why_business_people_write_books), I am certainly going to have to pick a copy of that book up. One thing that has continually irked me is the utterly meaningless language of many parts of the IT industry. When...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 13, 2006 | Desktop, Jokosher, Usability
In the past, I have gone into quite some detail about why I believe that the current crop of Linux multi-trackers are not up to the job for both recording my own music and recording [LUGRadio](https://www.lugradio.org/). To remedy this, Aq and I sat down for a few...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
Got up early today to head off to iCentrum to do a talk on VoIP. Good turnout and the response was very positive. At OpenAdvantage we have a couple of specific subjects that people seem to go nuts about, and it seems that VoIP is delving into that list. After we got...
