February 2007 Archives

We need to extend the linkit script to support (a) Solaris and (b) spaces/escape characters in the file name.
Sorry, my shell environment just isn't cooperating with me - BASH_ARGV[0] == {}, yet I cannot dereference the variable correctly no matter what I try. No wonder people use perl. God this is so frelling irritating.

Evolution doesn't really tell you that when you use a script to generate your signature you need to terminate the lines with a '<br/>', otherwise it pretends that there hasn't been one.
All to do with html mail composition. The only way I accidentally found this out was because of it's gconf entry containing this gem:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<signature name="default" uid="XXX@XXX" auto="false" format="text/html">
<filename script="true">sig.work</filename>
</signature>

It's a pie chart, and while some people find that using distinct colors is a distraction in this case the colors are so similar that you are hard pressed to determine which ones apply to what.
shame really, but this is one of the primary reasons for coloring the graph versus shading it - you would at least have the chance to read the bloody thing when the colors are correct

I laughed so much I nearly peed myself. You must see this movie; it is brilliant. It pays homage to practically every cop movie ever and most of those 70's small village but something bad is happening here movies. I may just see it again tomorrow, and definitely one to buy on DVD.

I think it's a great and noble task that the BOINC project is performing. I just don't feel like using it at home; and here's the reason - I only have speed switching processors. When the CPU is kicking away at this work all the fans run full tilt and things get very noisy. I like the quiet; in fact most of the time I use a nifty tool called SpeedSwitch XP, which allows me to customize the frequency scaling policy of my laptop. When not doing anything CPU intensive I leave it locked on Max Battery, which restricts the speed to the minimum, and thus keeps the fans off most of the time.

Playing with the latest 2.6.20 kernel, I tried to enable paravirtualization on the kernel and it broke vmware. It looks like the XEN changes that went in should be disabled for the time being until there is a more recent release of vmware - prefereably one that can play well with others.

Some of the locations have changed, some have been removed (XP)

• Apple Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines
• Microsoft Vista 'Design Guidelines'
• Palm OS Application Design Guidelines Pre PalmOS 6
• Java Look and Feel Guidelines (Version 2)
• Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (Gnome-HIG)
• KDE UI Standards

Drug test our children! Please, drug test the members of the Dail to see what kind of drugs they must be on to suggest such a really frelling 1984-esque item.