Category Archives: General

X.org 6.8.0 with composite

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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

More Linux Australia website stuff

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well, we’ve gotten everything into arch, and Pia and I have both committed to the central archive on digital fine. We’re getting places! this is *good*!

I think we’re nearly ready to go live. Just have to set up the news feeds for our “latest news” stuff. so, some mysql foo on digital, and it should all “just work”.

At some point soon, I plan to have a branch of memberdb in the archive so that the LA specific changes can be made there. Namely the site-look and site-messages folders.

These really should be seperate categories and use configs. I plan to do that soon… but possibly keep the website itself away from that (don’t want to scare Pia too much :)

Although arch does these things a *lot* better than other revision control systems. Although the user experience of the one we use at sgi is great – it’s all transparent to the user (unless you want to know).

iPod Versus the Cassette

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rather funny – and true….
iPod Versus the Cassette

but i still love my ipod – even if apple are being assholes with their attitude towards people who want to interface with parts of it (think FairPlay, Real).

even though i’ve never liked realplayer – they should be able to compete.

Fedora Core 3 Test 1

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Installed it on my crash-and-burn box.

Dual PII 350mhz, 128MB RAM (and a number of disks… this is on a 120GB WD drive, but on a slow IDE controller)

and, of course, the ultimate in graphics power, an S3 Trio3D.

So, install took about an hour. Not very snappy, but it got there. Not enough time using CPU while doing disk writes. multithreaded RPM installation would rock :)

Reported a bunch of bugs, some feature enhancements and found the desktop backgrounds :)

SELinux is now on by default… and so far I’ve only hit one bug with it (namely that you couldn’t launch the software update). bytebot said I should update to get the update to fix the updater, so i ran ‘yum update’ in the terminal. Hrrm…. not so quick with only 128MB ram. oh well…

FTA disastrous for Australian computer industry and users

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Dr Andrew Tridgell (or tridge as he is more commonly known as) has got a great paper up on his site about the AU-US FTA. It’s short, sweet and to the point.
FTA disastrous for Australian computer industry and users

In "About the Author" he does fail to simply say “tridge: genius”, but he does tend to be a bit modest :)

new hardware

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A firewire card for my desktop (because my Asus P4P800 Deluxe motherboard’s connectors DO NOT WORK, but this shintaro one does), a TV tuner card (now i need an ariel), and a new wireless card for my laptop (802.11g, not that i have a g access point, but this one actually supports 128bit wep.).

Plus, it has open source linux drivers (that work on ppc).

Also some CDs and DVDs.

exciting new world of comments

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comments are back! well, until the spam is unmanagable, and then i’ll have to go and moderate everything. At least it’s better than MT though, where it just accepts everything and you have to go hunting for bad things.

I like WordPress!

I’ve started to use Straw again, a cool News aggregator for GNOME (written in Python from memory). Basically to try and keep up with various blogs/dev blogs around the place.