29March2007
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
Finally. I’m just embarking on learning all about the wonders of the GConf-Editor. Why, oh why, the place plugin is not enabled by default for Compiz is beyond me but I’m sure/hope there is a good reason.
The next thing to report is once again, Flash is making Firefox crash. However, two cool things just happened. Firefox reloaded all the tabs I was viewing and Wordpress reloaded the post I was writing. Excellent!
27March2007
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
So the last post I wrote was penned about an hour before I suffered my first seizure in over four years. Farewell driving license, goodbye alcohol. The latter has to go to get the former back. Admittedly I had not been great with the medication but I’d like to know who on long term drugs really is. Needless to say I’ve been pretty blue although friends and family have of course been ace. Things perked up a little with the acceptance of Jokosher into Fedora. The process took six months but I’ve learnt a great deal - now I’ve just got to keep up with the releases although it would appear that development has somewhat slowed in recent weeks with no code checkins in over a week.
What has always concerned me about Jokosher is the relatively small user base that it may attract and what effect this will have on the amount of feedback/bug reports etc that it receives. There already appears to be a bug in the version of gstreamer currently included in Fedora that prevents recording. The list of bugs on Launchpad is pretty long…
23March2007
Posted by Christopher under: Travel & Leisure.
Working my way along the beer pumps at the Sair Inn in Linthwaite, the realisation struck me that perhaps there was more to life than Leadboiler and Landlord Mild. There is a quietly horrific feeling as I approach thirty that I have spent the last thirty doing very little indeed. This was supposed to have been my prime, the time in my life where my brain is at its peak and my body is a lithe, keen, muscle machine.
22March2007
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
Ugh. It looks like kernel 2.6.20 broke something in the v4l/dvb tree and now it doesn’t seem to be creating dvb device nodes. I was tempted to hang back at 2.6.19 to keep other mythtv users happy but instead poured a Waggle Dance (warning - disgustingly flash-heavy web page) and sat down to work through the problem. Over two Fedora upgrades there has been a fair amount of hackery go on to make the system work and this time I was down to explicitly forcing the (correct) cx88-dvb driver to load from /etc/rc.modules. I added to a bug someone had already filed and will await the outcome, probably in 2.6.21 I’m guessing. Dave Jones, the Fedora kernel maintainer, recently announced that he was being joined by a second hacker, Chuck Ebbert to help with the workload. Nice. The fruits of that are already beginning to show and hopefully issues like the one above can be sorted quickly or pushed upstream.
18March2007
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
RHEL 5 was released this week whilst I’m being trained at Red Hat Academy on RHEL 4. . The notice was a little bit obvious to those running Fedora 7 as the usual daily cascade of updates slowed to a trickle for about a week prior. I also headed over to Leeds to do some more work on my certification, only to find the Red Hat Academy website down, presumably in preparation for the release.
Its been snowing and the gritters are now out on force. Presumably the country is grinding to a halt as I type. Oh well, better get some rest, job interview tomorrow.
16March2007
Posted by Christopher under: House.
Since my last post two weeks ago about a manic depressive poet I’ve been violently ill and have finally stopped blaming Subway or The Leeds Commercial’s beer lines and accepted a might have cooked a dodgy curry. Or left a good one to go bad. Either way I felt awful but will at some point experience The Joy Of Being Well Again. You know, its that feeling when you wake up and there is nothing wrong with you. So you rush downstairs and do lots of stuff and then feel ill again and have to sit down.
An old friend from Oz has been in touch so Vienna in April is looking like a distinct possibility. Wikitravel is about to get another hammering I feel…
