You ever have one of those days when nothing seems to compile correctly? Me too. Obviously I’m managing to narrow this sites readership right down to 0 by asking but going through the output from Make hoping for a translation of that obscure error is never fun.
While on the subject does anyone know what DHAVE is (I think that’s what it says) because it crops up frequently during Make? The first few times I compiled code I kept thinking “Who’s this dave?”
Operation Kitchen Freedom has started in earnest with skirmishes occuring all day between the builders and the cupboards, with the tiles also coming under heavy attack. At this point it looks as if the sinks resistance is weakening now that cupboard support has fallen away. We’ll keep you updated as the situation here progress’.
Following on from NPD we present this list of the 100 worst pron titles. My favourite? “Why things burn”. Don’t you wish you owned that one? (via BoingBoing)
Possibly the cruellest trick you can currently play on a gamer: “Hey I see they’ve released Doom3″!
While in the local gamestore yesterday I walked towards the back to check out the older (cheap) games, looked up and there it was, three shelves deep. I grabbed one, scanned the back to make sure it wasn’t a joke and turned it over to study the front. It was then I noticed the white on red lettering saying “Pre-Order Your Copy Today!”
Needless to say, if anyone asks you about the apparently motiveless killing of the staff, I was with you all day. Got that?
There’s not much point me saying anything about the England - Portugal game. I’ve had enough of “experts” and others trying to give me their opinion. Life can suck sometimes.
I’ve been having connection problems with Eve since the last patch a couple of weeks ago so I decided to play Quake 3 yesterday while waiting for the kitchen to be delivered. I’d really forgotten how much fun it is. And fast! I’d forgetten that as well. Oh and I sucked. Badly. Against the bots. Don’t expect to see me on a q3 server anytime soon but I did dig out some of my favourite maps from yesteryear and have a blast.
I was hoping to download Slackware 10.0 before I finished work on thursday (because they have a fatter pipe :) ) but the iso’s are generally distrubuted via Bit Torrrent and I don’t think I’d get away with installing Bt on the Macs at work. That’s assuming there’s an OS9 version to begin with. Ah well, I can wait. Amazon have 9.1 in stock, which is something that took me by suprise but may also be another option. I’d like to pay for this one as I got 9.0 and 9.1 the old fashioned web way.
We walked into a newsagents earlier today to find the (nowdays) rare sight of someone browsing the “artistic lingere” magazine section. The next shop we went into was a second hand book/magazine shop where we spotted someone else doing the same. As soon as I realised it was the 26th June I knew what was going on. National Porn Day (NPD). Your all jealous now aren’t you? Sitting there wishing you had an NPD as well.
While in Chiswick this afternoon I stumbled across ITunes 4 for Macintosh and Windows. You need a book to use iTunes? Not only that but while searching on Amazon to create the link the search pulled out 21 other titles for iTunes. I really think the market has reached saturation on this one.
The good news? As I put it back I noticed Designing with Web Standards on the same shelf. It’s cheaper at Amazon but the post around here has gone to pot over the last few months so I haven’t wanted to risk it.
Bah! It’s been one of those weeks where you get up, go to work, come home and go to bed. Rinse and repeat.
The good news is that I’m getting paid for some site development I did a couple of months ago. Which is nice. Because it was a friend of a friend the amount was never really decided on and probably like most people I’m really bad at judging what my work is worth. You don’t want to go too high but at the same time you have this feeling you’re undercutting yourself. I wonder if there’s a formula for this kind of thing? A developers minimum wage?
From the Slackware ChangeLog:
Tue Jun 15 18:30:11 PDT 2004
This is Slackware 10.0 release candidate 1.
I’d better start backing up then.
I started mucking about with the Smooth engine for GTK2 the other day, just hacking an existing theme so this GTK2 engine tutorial should come in very handy. Whether you get to see the results is another thing of course.
Listening to Joss Stone as I’m writing this. The bass playing on “Fell in love with a boy” reminds me of an old friend and fellow bassist. I can see him jumping about on stage playing this everytime I hear it. I guess I associate that “auto-wah”ed bass sound with him rather than Bootsy nowdays. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing but whatever, I hope Marco is still tearing it up on stage somewhere.
Well, England managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory earlier this evening. I only hope the rest of the tournament improves. I’ll have cheered up by tomorrow. honest.
A release candidate for Firefox 0.9 has been out about a week now and the official 0.9 release is due tomorrow (14th). I have to say that 0.8 has been trouble free for me but i’ll still be upgrading to the latest anyway. This time I’ll make a note not to keep any previous version lying around the harddrive. I made a menu entry for Firefox in Enlightenement but pointed it to MozillaFirebird instead. It took me 2 hours of reinstalling extensions and other bits that had suddenly stopped working to realise my mistake. Note to self: Firefox FireFOX.
One extension that caught my eye recently is Sage, which is based on Flysons RSS Panel Reader. Sage isn’t radically different (on the surface anyway) but does allow the “feed item list” under the feeds pane to be hidden. Useful if the feed content is being shown in the main window otherwise it’s a duplication. Sage can be installed along with Flysons extension and it’ll be interesting to see how they both develop.
Another couple of things I need to get round to trying out. XtDesktop looks like it might be useful while PyPanel also looks worthy of further investigation. Yes, I know Enlightenent has it’s own taskbar/manager/thing but it’s so unobvious that I forget it’s there most of the time, and 1600 x 1200 really encourages you to have lots of windows open.
Finally got round to installing the e17 libraries (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) over the weekend which, contrary to the title was fairly easy. It just took a while but then we are talking about ./autogen.sh make & & make install x 17 here. It only tripped up running make on Epsilon. I was a little concerned about asking questions about CVS code on #edevelop after reading the warning but it turned out fine and a fix was submitted to CVS as I was chatting to the devs. Now that’s service!
Unfortuantely the reason for me installing the libraries in the first place didn’t work out so well. Evidence is the new(ish) file manager for DR17 so I thought I’d give it a go but while it seems to make ok something fails when installing it which means the icon view doesn’t work, which is a shame as that’s the main reason I wanted to try it. I could try the RPM’s but things rarely go right when combining Slackware and the RPM utility.
Guess it’s time to give Engage a go now i’ve got the libraries installed.
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