Well well. seems this is the end of 2003. A fairly slow year in my life, focused on getting myself back into life. Not very successful though.
For the next year:
*QA work.
*integration work
* Desktop work
We need to shape up on strictness all over Gentoo, right now I think the Gnome team has it mostly settled.
We also have to start hacking autoconf. like madmen. This will be very unpleasant, but has to be done. We need reliable deptracking.
So folks, expect patches upstream. At least for "--disable-
enjoy.
found some more uncharted dependencies. libao, KDE (all of it) XFCE, openldap. fixed libao, rather simple except some arches that don't have alsa. Bleh. Obz is fixing gconf-1 right now. (pulled in because of totem->xine-lib->flac->xmms->gnome-1.4 ) everything would be better without xmms right now.
otherwise.. evolution is clean, totem is being fixed. Wonder what to try next.
Battering my head against FAM, again. Seems it on -some- setups is a bastard that locks /mnt/cdrom, while on others it works. yesh.
To be even more annoying, 2.7.0 doesn't have a DNotify patch, (which does lock) and therefore can't lock the cdrom. if It has DNotify it still doesn't always lock. I just don't know what the case is here :/
I guess it'd be simple to just use it with xinetd and be done, but that feels like cheating.
Well, 2.6 up and running on my main system. Some snafu's.
pcmcia-cs which were the drivers I have been dependant on up to now (issues with the in-kernel orinoco driver for example) won't work, so I had to change the middleware drivers and a lot of configuration.
alsa, which i was using in the past, now boffs me a bundle of FATAL already loaded when starting up. Not too fun. Have to look at that "sometime" . Possibly its the alsa startup script that simply sucks ;)
okay, found mozilla-bonobo today, lets me introduce gpdf and ggv into epiphany. Great. Too bad that I can't get the controls visible. I'll have to fix that, or revert to plugger and see if that can embed gpdf instead. if that doesn't work, xpdf will be the way, or a hack.
Also got the LDAP login mess solved, it was a bad loop in login (probably login is broken on Fedora, will have to investigate given time. infinite loop when /etc/fstab has some weird entries )
Translated some more stuffs, got the default settings a bit better. had to change a lot of desktop entries, will have to repackage that later so we can duplicate the whole without too much work.
okay, pretty important discussions, cut rather deep into the structure. hopefully we can get this solved, if not.. Things will turn bad.
On the positive side, chinstraps next home boots now. Yey.
Fixed up more small details: indexhtml repackaged for a blank homepage.
evaluated some pdf/ps viewers for linux. Requirement that something be embeddable inside mozilla as that is "standard" and needs to be adhered. yey. I wonder if gpdf / ggv is up to the task or If I have to keep xpdf installed. Xpdf really isn't pretty.
Still got a lot of repackaging to do. Loads of crap defaults. I wonder what the Fedora team were thinking with.
Got a call from the ISP techsupport. Appears they are going to install more accesspoints in the building. Hopefully I'll get somewhat better bandwidth through this week. And the ICMP problem is "blame song" and will be back after new-years. Yey. I hope. Now work. Lets see what broke last week. Still Alsa perhaps?
Watching the build of postgres, reworking the planner (formerly MrProject) build right now. its boring to do regressiontesting.
Got it nailed and commited the move command. now mrproject is known as planner. Great :)
Glaring at a stackdump of Nautilus. It really doesn't tell me anything, all threads appear to be waiting or polling. Weirdness.
I really have to do something about the paragraph tags here. bleh.
well, I've decided to appear in Norway, no matter what, during the week of GUADEC 5. Thats Kristiansand, Norway, between Monday 28th June - Wednesday 30th June.
Hope it won't be too harsh economically as I'd love to go with my friends to Praha then as well. Dammit, I need money, it seems.
Things to see, perhaps?
"Stigmata"
"The Postman"
"Finding Forrester"
i sorta want to see both Stigmata and Finding Forrester, but stigmata it is.
okay, got the format right for
Date
and what i've been doing beneath that. Really neat. I still hate how MT is designed though (its sk. "user interface" for changing things)
Okay, over at my other blog I've gotten it running, all is well except for the backend store timestapms which is quite annoying. I'm hoping to do something about that, and to make xmlrpc work nicely, but I don't know yet.
Next step here is to get the blog into mainline ( as / ) and then add more content to the system, reparse the old crap site into a brand new sparkly design and have it all go live within shortly. Until then I'll keep blogging here, And file up news about work and Gnome and Gentoo hacking. Yey.
Currently rebuilding Chinstrap *yawn*
Yes, i am. Finally all seems to work, I've got the applet open too, we hey ho ho ho horay.
So, in a feeble attempt to get this working I've checked out gnome-blog vs. this MT blog. And things miraculously seem to work!
I'm thinking this is the first serious entry in my new career as a blogger. We hey ho ho ho.
i still think MT is overengineered, I've tweaked more with PyBloxom and it feels much saner and smoother, however also more errorprone for some reason
Well well well, What have we here.
I'm sorta satisfied with how this looks right now. I'd want the main blog field to move a few pixels up on the screen, so that even down at the bottom theres some free space, but I can't really do that with my level of CSS knowhow. Patches are welcome.
I'll look more at the format of the date/time / commiter tomorrow. Thinking to make it ChangeLog standard format :
12 Dec 2003; < spider @ $project$ > : $title$
But thats for then... now, sleep.