Very nice beer and curry for lunch today. Feel soooo good atm. Very culinary satisfied.
Beer and Curry for Lunch
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Yearly Archives: 2004
Ubuntu Linux – For my Mother
Well, I’m about to give Ubuntu Linux to my mother. This’ll be a good usability test :)
gnumeric or OpenOffice
for spreadsheet (tax time again)
i like gnumeric – but it doesn’t have that split screen view thing that i find really useful.
oh well… i only use a spreadsheet a handful of times in a year
Lirc under 2.6 and with my remote and with mythtv….
remote control to myth. funky.
GnuCash
Have just spent a whole lot of time importing my financial data into GnuCash with the hope of actually trying to manage my finances.
With luck, this will make the next tax return easier – plus let me have some idea of where my money actually goes.
I now know that my CD and DVD habit costs me more than my petrol habit.
Remote Serial Console HOWTO
You can have a serial console to GRUB – something i didn’t know. Which is cool – and sometimes needed.
The last thing you need is to drag your (soon to be) sweaty ass into a hot sauna server room to select a working kernel.
Integrating MemberDB with LA’s look-and-feel
Well… since LA actually has a look and feel now (thanks to the new website), I have to make good on the “site look is independent of the actual memberdb code” statement.
It’s proving to be sorta-true. A couple more patches into memberdb and it should all be right.
Oh, not to mention patches to the LA website :)
We’re going to have to undo some of those silly styling things (such as styling all h1 tags to be in the same position on the screen).
ACA Consumer Information: SPAM
ACA Consumer Information: SPAM
I’m very tempted to add a procmail rule that forwards all spam to the reporting address… Although i pity the poor people on the other end of that.
Although.. getting rid of spam and prosecuting (executing even – i really don’t mind) spammers is a REALLY GOOD use of my tax dollars!
PEAR :: Bug #2417 :: [PATCH] Incorrect processing of ‘permission denied’ style error messages
PEAR :: Bug #2417 :: [PATCH] Incorrect processing of ‘permission denied’ style error messages
Got the bugger – and supplied a patch that fixes it!
This should spell an end to those annoying (and really unhelpful) “DB Error: unknown error” messages from PEAR::DB when the user doesn’t have enough permissions.
Been hitting this a bit with MemberDB.
I’d love PEAR::DB to return back the native error string as well… but it’s kinda hidden.
Maybe I should be changing the getMessage() methods to return the PEAR message *and* the extra debug stuff? hrrmmm…
oh well, for later
Would the real Stewart Smith please stand up
No, I don’t work for Sun
blog spam hitting wordpress
*sigh*… now blog spam is hitting wordpress blogs. At least there’s a “Moderate all posts” option – unlike the crud that is MovableType. Well… MovableType before it went *really* non-free.
GNOME version numbering
Shouldn’t it just naturally progress to GNOME 2.A?
parallelised init
well… i don’t know if i’ve blogged this – but the other day i decided to see what would happen if all my startup items were done in parallel. Being the lazy guy that I am, i decided to just edit the rc script and add a & to the startup function.
Believe it or not, this actually worked!
Yes… things started up in parallel. Granted, because of the way debian prints things out it looked ugly… but everything worked. Now, to find some time to play with it some more and get GDM up first so we can log in while everything else loads.
It’s part of my “i really don’t need postgresql, squid, rsync, smartmontools, ssh, apache and cups loaded before i start the login process.”
Things should be dynamic and cope with services, networks etc starting/stopping/restarting.
Besides… you can always have a “login requirements” list or something if you really do think that mysqld should be running before you log in.
Augie March Gig
last night – Augie March. They sooooo rock. Of course, since it’s an augie march gig – everything broke. Took about 10 mins for them to get glenn’s guitar plugged in properly – and naturally somebody with the knobs couldn’t get anything done without a lot of nasty feedback. But it all worked out in the end.
Brundism is awesome live.
Lots of new stuff last night – quite like it. esp a few of the songs.
they played “moth ball” and altough glenn made no promises he’d actually remember it – did really well and it sounded devine. with the soft sweetness at the start coming into a wonderful loud and rocky bit at the end.
good night it was.
Multisync, bluetooth, Sony Ericsson k700i
The magic is “Channel 8”
syncing now! yay :)
Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Linux – Welcome to Ubuntu Linux
Yes… the super secret debian project is out of the bag!
Installing on my crash-n-burn machine now…
so far:
– text install will be replaced with GUI in next release (good thing)
– ext3 is default filesystem (eww).
– install taking an okay amount of time
– nice splash screen.
X.org 6.8.0 with composite
built, installed – and guess what? It *works*!
well… for some value of works.
missing a bunch of extra libs i need for some apps (e.g. emacs) and any translucent windows make it go *slllooooowwww*. but drop shadows work okay.
maybe in a release or so it’ll be reasonable to use full time. although what’s really needed is accelleration for my graphics hardware (Radeon 9600).
had to raise colin one up after his sleep working under Fedora :)
http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2004/09/12/911-fedora-ppc-tree-sleep-works-with-pmud
x.org
trying to get CVS to build… didn’t work :(
i mean, maybe i really should just get a working branch… but hey, that takes away the fun!
evil php bug
Cool Simpson’s quote
“There is no emoticon to express what i’m feeling”