This is the way I celebrate new years:

for i in * ; do cd $i ; mkdir 2004 ; mv * 2004 ; chmod -R -w 2004 ; cd .. ; done

Amazing the pub down the tree was perfectly in sync with network time from UWA. My clock rolled over as they said happy, and my background image had changed by the time they said new year.

I hope 2005 will be prosperous for everyone, and for those who don't care about the Gregorian new year, the Year of the Rooster starts on Feb 9th.

Finally, in the lead up to having a help browser that really rocks hard for our March release, here is something that looks a lot like the beginnings of GNU info support. The content is not yet formatted, we do not yet support chained Info files like Automake-1.8 or Screen (I'm working on this at the moment) and there are random bugs in the URI parser (which look worse then they are), but it's getting there. I'm hoping to get as much in as possible before the feature freeze in two weeks, so that I can claim all of the rest are bugfixes.

Don't think I've covered this yet. I finally bit the bullet and installed Ubuntu on my laptop (after having it on my desktop since Sounder). It wasn't too hard really, given installing Ubuntu on my desktop was about as easy as installing Windows would be (timewise, buttons-wise etc), installing Ubuntu on my laptop was about as hard as installing Windows would be (without vendor support).
However once I worked out the weird crack like getting the right set of X options to make my display play nice, recompiled 5xxx series nVidia drivers to get working S3 and then recompiled the kernel so that I exported a symbol required to modprobe the 5xxx series drivers. However now I am successfully running Hoary, with minimal crack. Also perhaps the one saving grace of Bonobo... I can tell it to first read server files from /opt/gnome2, allowing me to run CVS gnome applets built with jhbuild (see the picture).

Currently the only thing not working (besides my SD-card slot) is the function buttons. I have a quick-n-dirty application I wrote to do Toshiba buttons ages ago, and there is now a better application available via apt, but they both work the same way. I instead want to write an app that installs keysyms and then sends fake keystrokes via XTest, allowing me to remap the ACPI events from the function buttons into events I can catch in X (and then get all the prettiness GNOME will give me).