Advogato blog for mazeone

7 Feb 2001

Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:12:50 GMT

nekkid chocolate pics (just for richlowe).

8 Jan 2001

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 02:30:37 GMT

KDE
I've discovered the two things that make konqueror really annoying.

you can't paste a link into the main window to go there (works in NS4/mozilla)
The CSS support is just as buggy as NS4, which means it is horrid.

Number 1 is annoying but not a crisis. Number 2 pisses me off a lot. I tried to fix my bash page so it would look correct in NS4/konqueror but decided that it wasn't worth working around their css bugs...

20 Dec 2000

Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:38:12 GMT

Code
Helped Chutt track down the CD audio bug in FreeAmp the other day. He still hasn't committed it to the CVS tree because his local tree is b0rked, but it at least works on my machine...
Moved over to using enlightenment V0.17 full time at home yesterday. It doesn't have enough features yet for me to use it at work, but for home use it does fine. I'm using gnome panel, since there aren't any root menus yet--it appears that the gnome menu in panel has become full of evil suck. At least in the .deb, there are a bunch of stupid application catagories that you can't edit from the menu editor, the only thing you can change is stuff under your "Favorites" menu. And why does each sub menu have a heading that gives you the name of the menu again in what looks like another menu item that isn't selectable? Since I just selected the Favorites selection on my menu, don't I probably *KNOW* what that menu is? Also, I found it annoying that if I had a 'sliding' panel and used the little arrow buttons to move it to the far right of the screen and then dragged it somewhere else, it would jump back to the right hand side whenever I added anything to it. After spending years defending gnome in #e, I find that I can't really stand using it anymore. Oh well...

Me
My favorite place to eat in Georgetown, Burrito Brothers, is closing tomorrow. sigh

Addendum
it seems that after quite awhile of stability, mozilla has had some problems over the last several weeks. I've had it crash more over the last couple of weeks then in the 2 months previous, I think. There have also been weird problems with dialogs, and it seems to have eaten this diary entry, twice. Ah well, hopefully they are doing cool stuff and that's what's breaking...

27 Nov 2000

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:09:01 GMT

I love free software. The people at work finally convinced me that I should have some instant messaging client setup (primarily by never answering their phones). I tried TiK but it was just too, "tk-ish" for me to be able to stand. I looked at gaim and it was OK...except all the stupid braindead buttons all over the "conversation" window. It seems that just because AOL makes their client unbearably ugly, everyone who writes an IM client has to do the same. So I checked the src deb out, poked around in conversation.c, and soon had a client that just shows a textbox at the top for conversation and a single textbox for input at the bottom. No buttons, no ugly border, just simple goodness :) Of course, without the source I would have been screwed--> no wonder 99% of the windows software in the world sucks.

20 Nov 2000

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:55:09 GMT

finished the new webpage this weekend. The whole site is created by running a script (cunningly named "makepage.pl") that goes through and makes the page from a couple of templates and a bunch of content files. It creates thumbnails from the screenshots and pix directories, creates indexes, blah blah blah. Of course, the resulting page is hard to read in a few places (i need to make the colors contrast more) and clean up the html output more. and make an admin interface so i can add news items and screenshots without ssh'ing to the webserver and editing files...

16 Nov 2000

Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:25:49 GMT

iain
I'm sorry if the people in #e were mean to you, as there is a chance that I was one of those people. The only excuse we have is that there is a constant barrage of really stupid people coming in the channel, bugging us with the same stupid questions over and over. So when someone who isn't stupid asks the same question, there is a chance that they will take the brunt of the frustration caused by the other people. Luckily, it appears that a good number of the people who used to bug us have moved on to using sawfish, so people in #e have a bit more patience than they used to.

efm
The plan all along was for efm to become part of the next version of enlightenment. Raster and Mandrake built what was EFM as a test of a lot of their ideas on what should go into a file manager. Now they are going back and building core libraries, including a lot of the ideas that were sucessful in what was EFM. They don't want to get a lot of support questions about EFM (which has never been actually released), so they moved it off the CVS server. #e also isn't interested in supporting it, much to the dismay of a lot of people who have seen the nice screenshots, which is why usually people in #e disavow all knowledge...

I have sometimes wondered if #e is "not nice", compared to other large irc channels...I know that the other large channels I've seen (#perl, #gnome) tend to be as brutal as #e, if not worse.

10 Nov 2000

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:01:26 GMT

hmmm
I decided to rewrite my webpage, and this time to create scripts that will create all the html from a template file and some .content files. The basics work great. However, now I'm considering how to handle "special case" pages, like my screenshots page nad my random pictures page. On those pages I want to take a dir of images with one file that contains captions and automagically create an index page containing thumbnails that link to pages with the actual pictures (or the image files themselves, in the screenshot page). Right now, my main script looks for all the .content files in the main dir and creates .html files from those. I also have a couple of scripts that will create the "special" pages on their own. I'm trying to see if I can come up with a way of having one script do it all for me, and whether that will just be nasty (do i have a .pages file that tells my script which pages are "special"....
I know that there are 10,000 packages out there that will do exactly what I'm doing now for me much more elegantly and better than anything I can write, but writing this crap is helping me with the depression I've been struggling with for the last several days. sigh

update
I of course realized that i was being an idiot. All I have to do is create the custom .content files seperately, and then my script can create the html from those. So the main body of my script looks like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

&make_pixcontent;
&make_sscontent;
&make_html;

inside the make_pixcontent and make_sscontent subs I create a .content page that, when parsed, creates an index page of all the images thumbnailed, and then a bunch of .content files that parse to have the full sized image on the page. Whee!

1 Nov 2000

Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:31:59 GMT

neuro
if visibility is bad, maybe you shouldn't have been going that fast? I used to drive a school bus and I have no patience for people who try to make excuses for running red lights or doing other stupid things on the road.

30 Oct 2000

Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:35:07 GMT

lilo is funny looking. And he smells weird.

/me hides ;)

4 Oct 2000

Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:21:39 GMT

code
I've actually been doing some coding. I sent in a patch to freeamp last night, probably won't make it in until after 2.1 comes out. I also did some nasty hackery on vorbiscomment to make it take command line arguments, and then wrote a perl wrapper around it so it would clean up my broken metadata on a few of my ripped CDs. My changes were so bad there is no way I'd ever send them upstream, tho. It does make me love open source :)
Today I pulled all the ftp/scp stuff out of webcam (sorry, no URL) so it'll just take a single snapshot and archive it. I then wrote a perl wrapper to that to upload it to my website. Oh yeah, i also updated my website a little.

!code
I read that signal11 vs. cmdrtaco log. to me it seemed that cmdrtaco was very reasonable all the way through it. I dunno, I think that people take stuff way too seriously.