Where on earth is the “Unfuck Nautilus” checkbox?
oh well, will go to gconf to get a system that’s usable for manipulating files.
Where on earth is the “Unfuck Nautilus” checkbox?
oh well, will go to gconf to get a system that’s usable for manipulating files.
Ubuntu, installed, out of the box, PowerBook 15inch 1ghz – slept and woke up. I am one impressed puppy.
Now just restoring /home
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.
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.
Pia Waugh, Jeff Smith.
%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.
Rusty talking about the spam that banks give him.
personally, i’m nearly convinced one of my banks is trying to kill me. they keep pestering me to take out “accitdental death” life insurance.
Without fail, every few months – for years.
fuckers.
obviously don’t work well together.
Apple USB OHCI 0001:10:18.0 disabled by firmware
Apple USB OHCI 0001:10:19.0 disabled by firmware
So no photos today.
<bernard_> in my room the wireless works much better (and infact is only usable) if my laptop is oriented parallel to the wall.
* 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
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*)
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.
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.
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.
Feature: No More Free BitKeeper
Insert inspired-by-RMS rant about non-free software owning you.
I don’t know what the implications of this is going to be… but something worth reading and thinking about.