Easter, a time for new beginnings
And if you think I had a happy Easter, I didn’t. It sucked. In short, I’m a free man now. Really, really free. I guess its supposedly nice to have just a female best friend around. I finished Season One of One Tree Hill as well. Guess I now know what it feels like to be despondent. And after the few days of fasting, celibacy is looking brighter and brighter.
Fedora/ppc
Seth has always been a good man, and now there are even more PPC packages available. Please look at the build logs of failures. So this has really been an exercise in expanding my BASH shell scripting skills… Come test2, I’ll do a mass rebuild with mach and the “actual buildsystem”, so that we can wade thru possibly weird issues. Also wanting to do things over NFS, as the build box needs more space… (bigmac not so big after all!).
OOo
OOo2 and its java dependencies seem to be a hot topic at newsforge. Where he got the idea that I lead, I don’t know. A more useful article is on the reinvention of Progeny - an OSS company, startup even, that survived the .com crash. Nice read, with common business sense information sitting there. And rather unrelated, but How to start a start up is a great read.
Firefox search plugins
Mozilla search plugins are cool. I’ve always just used the Google one, but I guess I felt the need to change it to use Google Australia by default now. The eBay one works well for eBay Australia too. Added the IMDB, CDDB, Wikipedia (somewhat broken), and the Bible (NIV). On Fedora Core, you’ll run into add engines not working (RHBZ#134701).
Anyways, I tried to access the search rhbz via google and it didn’t work (site not accessible), so I ended up writing my own. RHBZ Firefox search plugin is now available for download, as is the source. It was only later that thl pointed me to this - all the RH Bugzilla stuff you need. Gah.
/etc/motd
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.” –Maurice Maeterlinck
Does anyone know of an intelligent random signature generator that will pipe well for Evolution to use? Or is writing one my only hope?