Changing to Ubuntu

The 13GB waste of space that was the unused MacOS X partition is gone. So is the very much hacked Debian Unstable (was living up to its name too much) partition. Currently am installing Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog on my PowerBook.

I may still have to run a custom kernel (sleep support) – but that’s not going to worry me too much. It’s the fact that things are stable for six months that’s making me excited. No more worrying about if a dist-upgrade will break everything.

You can chuck in the LiveCD on PPC and get a working X configuration. Woah.

Also been playing (briefly) with f-spot on my desktop. Is pretty cool. I’m going to start using it for all my photos. Looks like it scales okay too! The import of my existing photos went pretty smoothly. Some of the dates are totally borked – but hopefully that’s an easy fix to the code. I think i might join the mailing list and make some suggestions (as well as try my hand at implementing some myself). Pulling the source from CVS and trying it out was real easy – this is a good sign.

I can’t wait until the version of Mono is upgraded so I can run Beagle! When f-spot, Beagle and Dashboard hit the pre-installed stage on linux distros, we’re going to have a real set of killer apps to bring people over from the dark side.

blogging linux.conf.au in reverse

didn’t get much time to write while at LCA. So will cover it now, possibly in reverse, but definitely after the fact.

Have slept a lot today. Which is good, really needed it. Back to work though – which should also be fun.

currently: relaxed on the couch, listening to Tool and pulling mail.

Oh, LCA rocked. It so rocked. It rocked so much that Uluru really looks like a pebble.

Andre Pang on CSV to Address Book

%u039Blgorithm.com.au: CSV to Address Book Importer

Surely my OSX Address book VCF to Evo VCF perl script is more free software friendly.

i think tihs may even be fixed now. i seem to recall a bugzilla mail recently. so maybe it’s redundant! yay!

move from the proprietry world of OSX to the free world of Linux.

http://www.flamingspork.com/junkcode/vcf.pl

gems from linux.conf.au, after the pub

* MacPlusG3 wonders wtf is happennning with is imaps connection
<bernard_> MacPlusG3: 21:59 < cef> yup.. dropping my mtu to 1478 fixed it
<bernard_> ?
<bernard_> though I'm on burgmann wireless here and pulling mail over imaps just fine.
< -- womble has quit ("ZZZzzz...")
<MacPlusG3> THAT IS FUCKED

stillhq.com – Stat on the command line

stillhq.com – Stat on the command line

So Michael pointed out there is one…. in recent versions of coreutils at least.

(umm… yeah… that’s a good excuse. no really)

I should retitle previous entry to something like:
ever wanted /usr/bin/stat on an older system?

The copyright for /usr/bin/stat is 2004 – so i guess my perl is still good for pre 2004 distros (*cough* a debian release *cough*)

~/bin/stat

What have you always wanted on the command line?

stat? i: hear; you cry! (insert more [silly] {punctuation} around ‘ere!)

I present, to you, my ~/bin/stat

#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $FORMAT="%H:%M %a, %e %b %y";

foreach(@ARGV)
{
  my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
      $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)
      = stat($_);
  print $_."\n";
  print "Dev:   $dev\n";
  print "inode: $ino\n";
  print "mode:  $mode\n";
  print "nlink: $nlink\n";
  print "uid:   $uid\n";
  print "gid:   $gid\n";
  print "rdev:  $rdev\n";
  print "size:  $size\n";
  print "atime: ".strftime($FORMAT,localtime($atime))."\n";
  print "mtime: ".strftime($FORMAT,localtime($mtime))."\n";
  print "ctime: ".strftime($FORMAT,localtime($ctime))."\n";
  print "blksz: $blksize\n";
  print "blks:  $blocks\n\n";
}

it’ll make it to junkcode sometime soon.

Yahoo Mail sucks

What Yahoo Mail does to the In-Reply-To header appears to be random. Whatever it is, it’s random and broken.

Occationally it seems to do the right thing. No bloody sense to it though.

Usually it seems to put in some random integer.

Fun.

This is why some people’s mail goes missing.

Yahoo, you should know better. Shame.

Theraputic Beer

Totally not the topic of the blog entry, but anyway: Over at stillhq.com – Blogging methods there is a mention of Theraputic Beer. I totally agree. Where the oath is mine? It’s in the fridge. Why isn’t it here? wait…it’s now in the freezer. WHEN OH WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE INSTANT-COOL BEER?

Some magic substance that means when you open the beer, it’s nice and cool. even if it was sitting *next* to the fridge because someone thought that ‘food’ was more important than BEER.

argh.

maybe i’ll get lots of therapy then.