Advogato blog for murraycAdvogato blog for murrayc21 May 2004- May 21, 2004 I moved my blog from advogato to murrayc.com, so that I have more control.http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=183 20 May 2004- May 20, 2004 Munich Blogs I used the planet code to set up munichblogs.com, with an initial random selection of blog feeds. Hopefully there'll be some gradual natural-selection of the bloggers. I plan to add some subculture blogs too - For instance, I'd like to know about any and all blogs for open source developers in Munich. Feeds seems to be of variable content, possibly depending on the formats (planet seems to handle any feed format automatically). Some have full text, and some have just the first...http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=182 17 May 2004- May 17, 2004 pyblosxom I've been playing with pyblosxom locally and with my hosted account. It's a while since I did much .cgi, so "premature end of script headers" in the apache error.log was confusing again. Of course it really seems to mean "some of your file permissions are wrong". I don't think I've been aware of suexec before, though it's probably quite common. Dreamhost use suexec, so you'll get that error if the .cgi script is writable by all. It's about time something stopped me from trying to fix..http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=181 15 May 2004- May 15, 2004 Annoying g++ improvement of the day I know there's bound to be a good reason for the C++ spec to say we can't do this, and I can guess at it, but this gcc 3.4 C++-conformance improvement, pointed out to me by Bryan Forbes, is an irritation. Of course, I don't know the reason exactly because there is still no freely-available copy of the C++ spec online. No, I don't want the C one instead Don't mention the war(s) More documentaries seen at Dok.Fest: Willkommen an der Grenze: Mostar, in...http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=180 14 May 2004- May 14, 2004 Long live the interim government The Dok.Fest Documentary festival is on in Munich this week. It's information rich. So far I've seen Skinhead Attitude: Far-right skinheads say what's expected of them. Normal people with similar hair styles disagree. In onese scene, a girl suggests that all the blacks, gays, and muslims should be nuked so that her children can grow up happy. Familienreise: German Grandmother, father, and daughter revisit GlatzK&322;odzko in Poland, which the Grandmother's...http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=179 12 May 2004- May 12, 2004 I love smartpointers Yes, ncm, I am also becoming obsessed with smartpointers. Not only do I think C++ badly needs a standard-approved reference-counting smartpointer, but I'm even beginning to think it should be part of the language syntax, though I might be nuts. Seeing and believing are both often wrong The Fog of War is fascinating. Robert McNamara, the Rumsfeld of his day, is remarkably honest and precise about his mistakes and successes, while just following orders. I don't believe that...http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=178 9 May 2004- May 9, 2004 Mobile ranting Articles like this give me hope. There has been so much buzz about Linux on mobile phones during the past year, with Motorola, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and others planning linux-based phones and investing in the technology. I've worked a lot in this industry, and I've seen the vast savings that can be made by using a common platform. Some companies are killing themselves by locking themselves into obscure software platforms because they want to lock their customers into buying...http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=177 7 May 2004- May 7, 2004 Torture is wrong. Now you know. Rummy says he takes "full responsibility" for the torture at Abu Ghraib but, bizarrely, isn't resigning. Obviously , therefore, he isn't interested in taking responsibility for stopping it, or the torture at Guantanamo. Some people will become gradually accustomed to each new outrage, but hopefully most U.S. voters can begin to see that something has gone terribly wrong. And this time, it's the voters' responsibility. 24 Near the end of series 3 now, having...http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=176 5 May 2004- May 5, 2004 Devhelp Recent versions of Devhelp use gecko instead of gtkhtml, so now it can handle the links in gtkmm's html documentation. For instance, the search feature now works. It's useful. Platform Bindings We'll have pygtk in the GNOME Plaform Bindings for 2.72.8, That covers GTK+ and libglade, though nobody is claiming mainantership of the extra gnome-python tarball.http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=175 3 May 2004- May 3, 2004 Glade 2.6 does good stuff I noticed that, not only does Glade 2.6 support the new GTK+ 2.4 stuff, such as GtkAlignment padding, but when you create a GtkFrame, it even sets the invisble border, adds the bold label, and adds a child GtkAlignment with left padding. Instant HIGification. And I see that Damon Chaplin is also working on Glade 3 now. New gdm weirdness I'm trying to use my debian partition full-time, at least until Fedora Core 2 arrives. I've got gnome 2.7 built with jhbuild, but..http://www.advogato.org/person/murrayc/diary.html?start=174 |