Advogato blog for bbrox

26 Jul 2003

Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:26:07 GMT

Still alive and waving at TD :-)

4 Feb 2001

Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:13:34 GMT

Well, so as you do not think I am dead, let's show what I am hacking on right now.

28 Dec 2000

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:02:22 GMT

Of course, the night after I told here 'come see my web server', I suffer a hard drive failure on the said server...

It should be back in order now :-)

28 Dec 2000

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:30:11 GMT

Well, back from the holidays at my parents'. Fortunately, I had my iPAQ to do some Linux hacking :-) (I only used the Win98 box to run the VNCViewer on it).

I did what I planned to do for a long time : rewrite my Book database from C to Python. You can find the results here. The database is still a bit slow as the Python script is stand-alone (ie not using any mod_python) and is not pre-compiled (I execute directly the .py, not a small .py that would import the big .pyc files).

BTW, I am using Mozilla 0.6 for two weeks now, and it crashed less often than Netscape 4.x (but well, the UI is still slow).

And, of course, Merry Christmas to everybody :-)

11 Dec 2000

Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:25:34 GMT

Ok, finished Monkey Island 3. It's the first game I entirely played in Wine (from the install to the playing, everything). So I now started Monkey 4 :-)

So see you in about two weeks when I will have finished it for more hacking news :-)

6 Dec 2000

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:31:26 GMT

Well, it's been a month now... Nothing new as I was 2 weeks away for work (Chicago) and 2 weeks again for fun (in the Carribeans, look at this picture.

And I am currently playing Monkey Island 3 on Wine before taking on the 4th :-)

5 Nov 2000

Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:08:05 GMT

Found some time doing Wine stuff this week-end. First reorganized a bit how DInput is written (it's not yet the right way to do it, but well, it's cleaner than before) and then stubbed DInput 7.0a.

A part from that, packed my stuff for my trip tomorrow :-)

3 Nov 2000

Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:51:16 GMT

Still nothing productive done lately... More fooling around with my iPAQ, but no real progress (working on a graphical interface to GnuGO optimized for a 320x240 display).

And it's not the next two weeks in Chicago and the two following ones in the Caribbeans that will help things :-) Hopefully I will have more time for hacking when I come back in december.

22 Oct 2000

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 10:00:31 GMT

Well, it's been a long time since I upgraded my log. Not much Wine hacking lately (well, some small bug fixes and improvements, but nothing major).

A part from that, broke completely the Apache install on my server by trying to install Apache_SSL (still trying to find out what's wrong) and bought an iPAQ.

24 Sep 2000

Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:12:25 GMT

Came back safely from Linux Kongress. As Marcus said, no real constructive discussions on Wine (that is maybe because no real agenda was set) but it was nice anyway to meet some of the developpers face to face. Went to some interseting talks, some less, but well, all in all, an interseting experience.

As I will be again in Milan next week (any Advogato readers there who wants to drink some beers with a lonely business traveller who cannot speak a work of Italian can send me some mail :-) ), I finished my XVideo patch this afternoon (well, the weather was bad too, so it helped a bit).