Okay, I got this today, and It sent a real chill down my spine as I went through my purchases and realized I'd never used this mailaddress for any creditcard transaction. Still, its unpleasant, and a good social attack IMO.
Subject: Thank you for your order.
Dear customer,We are glad to inform you, that your DarkProfits.com Sales Order
has been successfully completed.Sales order number: 3445096-01.04
Customer' Number: 1333027
Amount charged: $149.95
Time of charge:
Product ordered: 1 Month Child Porn Unlimited Online Access.
Customer' Email: spider@gentoo.orgPlease note, that refunds are not available for this type of transactions.
Your credit card was charged by (Link: www.darkprofits.com,)www.darkprofits.com, it will appear on
your next credit card's statement.
Bleh. Came home to find myself off IRC, checking the machine and it gives connection refused on ssh. Going over to my ICQ messages i find a note about it hanging when creating a directory. uh-oh.
I went down and sat down. And yeah, main filesystem was fubar. as was /boot. Whats worse, IDE errors. dammit. disk corrupt, no cdrom and the only kernel that works is a grsecurity "deny most things".. including chown, chmod, mount and everything else inside a chroot.
I spent about an hour scratching my head and trying to get around my own restrictions (the other kernels around didn't boot due to corrupted sectors. Egh.) Finally did get around it (remounting / to another partition.. nasty pivot). Reinstall on another place and hope for the best. This time, the system is on the latter half of the disk. Might hold out for a week or so until I get another disk.
I hate hardware.
Spent most of the day sorting bugs. Or attempting to. Got the default desktop setup nailed, finally a new background thatll work and passed usability demands.
A few hours of trying to debug session related errors on the clients. (Epiphany wouldn't cooperate and load pages, just connected and showed the SSL Cert dialog. Can't figure out why except that even when shutdown two instances were alive with session manager startuplines).
Even more fun to try and get to the reason that nautilus crashes with an odd error on two roots. Went away after a reboot, so I suspect its some issue with the NFS server. (yes, my "root-over-nfs" client has a higher uptime than the server that serves its / ... )
And it will be further fun to debug gdm(client shutdown/reboot) a bit. I suspects its another permissions error.
Same for gimp (note to self, try latest 2.0 pre)
Even more fun, debugging metacity and clicks + focus issues. yey.
Don't talk to me about openoffice. *gnyff* (what? it needs /usr writable. sometimes. blargh)
and, can somone explain, in detail the difference between sodipodi/inkscape and xfig? Not for me, but since I don't use both I'm not too sure. please?
Also, debugging mozilla-bonobo + gpdf and printing. No thanks.
And a gnome/gtk+2 integrated printqueue manager.
I'm feeling really stressed. This isn't good.
And the NFS server, well.. 75398.00% IOwait (according to top) when it was forcing our clients down to their knees and kicking them. Reset-time. (damned dell with the raidcontroller from hell).
Do you really expect your delusional and incoherent ramblings to be
read? Everyone plonked you long ago. Do you fantasize that your
tantrums and conniption fits could possibly be worth the $0.000000001
worth of electricity used to send them? Your life is one big
W.O.M.B.A.T. and your future doesn't look promising either. We need to
trace your bloodline and terminate all siblings and cousins in order
to cleanse humanity of your polluted genes. The good news is that no
normal human would ever mate with you, so we won't have to go into the
sewers in search of your git.
I just caught a glimpse of an improved fileselector for Gtk+ 2.2. I really don't know what to think about it, it feels cluttered, as if the user is presented with "too much stuff". I think its in part the iconbar that does it, and what appears to be the inconsistent spacing between "cancel ok" and the bottom (compared to the rest of the widgets).
The whole feel is "too cramped" for my tastes, and I get usability shudders that I cant shake myself off. Yet its good to see the "up" and "back" arrows in a UI. Why a refresh one though? And the launchers, ouch. why are they icons? icons don't feel usable as I'm forced with a pictogram that I don't always remember. (the seashell for nautilus fex. rather counterintuitive.)
And, why should I have the terminal/file manager options there, they seem.. cluttered. not pleasant at all.
dammit, I'm rambling, tired, and rambling.. yet I can't decide wether i like this or not. the general idea is great, but... it has this qualming feel over it.
Slept most of the day, been dealing with a nice way to handle breaking binary upgrades between Chinstrap and Gentoo. I don't think theres much way of doing it in the long run, due to the fluid appearance of it all. Reinitializing packages (wipe the old, clean out and make new ones) seem to be one of the few ways of making sure all packages are fixed, then the next level are users, and they have to handle it like any normal Gentoo install. Run the updater, by hand. Seems to work, for now.
oOkay, gossip is updated and in, I'm wary of the new gnutls though. I think I'll stay away from it for a while. Loudmouth went in with gossip, Rhythmbox is there too, however it still balks on filesize for mp3's. *mutter*
Seems I caught some odd bugs with gossip too, resizing and a crasher, can't reproduce. I hate those.
Removed GnoRPM. Noone has moaned about it in ages, so I don't think it will be missed.
Have a problem waking up today. been sitting here for more than three hours now and not really thought of anything.
Did get the RDF + RSS/XML feeds corrected though. Go me, now they show the whole entries, but without html. Sorta what I want from them. (have i ever said that I'm fond of oldschool text? There are few cases where i think there should be more syntaxt to things. but that might just be because I have a broken css.)
anyone who feels like can please get my
to work prettily again? so that it just does nothing, more or less.
Office. Chew mail and refix mozilla filtering. Moz needs to get faster, barely usable on this setup.
Fixed up the epiphany package from last week, found the error by doing some debugging. Seems that Fedora haven't been as good with buildtime dependencies. libtool issue, again. I don't know how many times I've been barfed by that package. ouch.
Now then, some patching on the .desktop files is probably in order before I release this for internal testing.
Continued:
Epiphany is now built and working, control-center has been rewhacked to be included as a menu entry but a bit obscured. Beat down on xscreensaver to make it work nicely, gconf-mandatory.
Watching the compiles roll by on a couple of computers. new binaries for binutils and glibc are upcoming. KDE 3.1.5 finally built and at least appears to be working.
Mozilla 1.6 and epiphany 1.0.7 are in progress, hopefully they will work decently.
Sorry luis, never got around to those 2.5 packages :/
new moz and epiphany seem nice, somewhat faster, at least with window resizes.
Chinstrap updated nicely. removed svga support due to kernel requirements (I hate things with kernel helpers) and disabled clanlib temporarily because of an OpenGL problem introduced by SpanKY.
Well, after the last few days rsync flakieness I'm taking to builds with chinstrap again. Seems theres some issue with the new svgalib and automated clean builds. (Yep yep. the makefile wants to build against the running kernel.. Bad bad Makefile)
Pushed this to vapier, hope he'll get to it soonish. I hate blocker bugs :/
Luis: I'll look more at 2.5 builds for you tonight, if I can slip through my lethargy.
First at the office, no coffee. Chew bugs and policydiscussions. Lots of noise, little results.
Fixing issues with internal packagins, Got a plan for development setup. Time to see if we can discard the mozilla mailer for clients and move to thunderbird, its not likely to do worse.
Spent some unnecessary time debugging epiphany, before I realized its probably a problem at the other end.
Trying to figure out WTF new-ported clientsystems have a white background and no logout button. Mighty frustrating.
some hours of building and debugging, only to find out my package of epiphany is flawed, didn't install some xml files (Glade) . Gave up and went home after far too many hours at the office. (6 hours over time. No, not overtime, over the time I was supposed to leave. ) Bleh.
i hope noone tries that one when I'm gone.
okay, registered today that totem really dislikes working on our systems, can't seem to debug it properly as it took down the via C3 machines with it.
gmplayer leaks memory when using alsa.
xmms isn't an option as it doesn't support utf-8 properly.
Rhythmbox isn't "user-recognizable" enough. Bleeh. I guess I'll be looking at Beep media player, when Sourceforge stops sucking .
Other than that I've been messing with Yelp and discussing browsers and defaults for the system. Not much fun, but it seems we got the first set of user-responses settled.
This would be far easier to debug if my machine had audio.. but nooo.. dammit.
Todo: mess up all browsers in all apps
make xscreensaver not behave.
fix login scripts/gdm
fix mozilla and translate it or remove it.
Curl up in a corner and whimper as you realize its two days left.
No work as intended. I overslept instead. oops. will try tomorrow (which is in 3 hours for me) and then see.
Plan: get a base package with modifications done, then start to repackage each and every package i've been fiddling defaults with.
Yey.
Dammit.. My reaction is upset and anger. i've chatted a bit with Mark, and to hear he passed away yesterday came as a bad blow... this winter hasn't been good on the Gnome team. The release of 2.6 will be an Obituary, more than anything.
Give them peace, the lost hackers.
Well, not really. Though in the recent fix there seems to have come up another issue with build vs. Runtime dependencies.
The issue boils down to having a if RDEPEND="null" check, then set RDEPEND=DEPEND. However, the kde eclass does some inherited magic on RDEPEND, so it isn't set to NULL as supposed, which means that RDEPEND will not inherit DEPEND flags. The fix is to simply add RDEPEND=DEPEND in all kde followpackages, and the problem will go away.
However, right now, KDE doesn't depend on QT. *G*
Update Seems that this was partially an old DEPEND problem, and more importantly the fact that the KDE team updated all their packages with corrected values, but never updated the revisions. In this result, the old packages still didn't have the right dependencies, whereas parts of the new ones did. yeeey.
And it seems I have finally killed that darn thread
Good riddance, hope I won't see it again in six months.
Okay, got up and away today. Just me and Take at the office, so I chewed email, worked on some outstanding desktop bugs. Patched xchat to integrate better with the default desktop, sent it away to zed as well.
Next week will probably see first a collective .desktop file package, then start to repackage some things that need it. Have to patch gthumb and some more stuff as well. Tracking and reproduction, necessary but boring.
