Okay, Haven't updated much, mostly due to my mood. But the piece on /. here is wonderful:
its the rule. It sucks.
Inserted new (erm.) shiney (erm2) scsi card + 10k rpm disk into server today. Happy happy boot boot.
Hang. Crash.
Unplug, check connectors, check power, replug.
no disk found.
Retry, force rescan.
Disk found.
Boot OS. partition drive, make filesystem.
IO error.
......
Several hours of magic later, I found the problem. The SCSI card will work in -one- of the PCI slots on the board. none other. then it works flawlessly. Disk done, happy, formatted, inserted. All things work as if by magic.
AHS.
I was just playing with, what I thought, was the Lossless "Colour invert" operation in order to do some editing in dark areas, when I found that no, it isn't lossless.
Compare: theese two squares. left is original, right is original with 2x colour invert.
Edit Well, some checking and it seems I can get mostly the same effect with a pure coloured layer and the burn layer operation. That helps a bit. Normal "Layer->Colour->invert" is not really what I'm after either. But, it seems that this is a rounding problem as to be found with the RGB->HSV->RGB conversions.
Hmm, seems that sylpheed recently started doing something strange when it sends messages, leaving either spider@localhost.localdomain or @darkmere.darkmere as one of the originating places on the SMTP path.
This is of course valid, for my local network where "darkmere" -is- a valid domain, resolves nicely and has a registered MX and so on and so on.
However, hosts on the net dislike this.
Well, it has made me work with evilution some more, and even though its evil and polluting (reply doesn't do reply-to-list if/when it detects a list folder, I can't associate folders with outgoing addressess, it doesn't import my adressbook, it doesn't autopopulate my addresslist either... *grr*)
