The Apple USB Extension cable that came with my Apple USB keyboard uses a slightly different plug, so I can’t use it with my Logitech USB Mouse
And I finally upgraded the RAM on my iBook, it has now 640MB RAM. If anybody needs Samsung 128MB RAM PC2100S CL2.5, please write me an email.
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Minimac
Yesterday I got my Minimac. Today I installed FreeBSD on it. Yes there is very experimental support for PowerPC.
You need:
Peter Grehan’s miniso, the corresponding blurb, Garance A. Drosihn’s Howto, Peter Grehan’s powerpc packages.
Unfortunately I was not able to build my own world, or kernel, and I have not got X working, so I have to consult the freebsd-ppc Mailinglist.
Mice
Today my mouse @work stopped working because of a loose contact in the cable. It was a four year old MS Intellimouse Explorer. Unfortunately this defect is not repairable, because it is not possible to open the Mouse. So I am now looking for a good replacement. Requirements: USB, 3 Buttons and a Wheel. Preferrable not from Logitech or Microsoft. And i don’t like the wireless mice that require an extra battery.
Winter
Paypal
I wanted to donate money to last.fm, so i needed a Paypal account. In Austria Paypal only supports credit cards, but in Germany it is possible to use it with normal bank accounts. Unfortunately the Paypal website is a bit unflexible and does not support bank accounts in a country different from the snail mail address (BTW Amazon does support this, but unfortunately they calculate the tax rate from the address and not from the bank account country). Hopefully paypal never has to send me snail mail, because I am now registered in “D-A-1170 Wien”.
BTW Paypal offers the possibility to add a “Donate via Paypal” button to your homepage. But I doubt anyone would donate money for reading this blog
libtool vs. IOKit
Today I tried to compile an application that uses libusb.
First the linking failed with:
libtool: link: cannot find the library `'
Nice errormessage, *I really love libtool*
After googling i found this excellent blog about porting Unix software to MacOS X.
After patching ltmain.sh I now get this error message:
libtool: link: cannot find the library `' (libusb.la: IOKit)
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Unfortunately the libusb project seems to be dead, no new releases for several months.
Neue Vahr Sued
Last Week i read “Neue Vahr Sued” the new book by Sven Regener from Element of Crime.
His books were hyped to death in Germany, but i managed not read them until i got “Neue Vahr Sued” as a christmas present.
It was worth reading, I laughed a lot although there was no Happy End.
BTW the story somehow reminds me of “Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.” by Ulrich Plenzdorf which we had to read at school.
MacOS X vs. libtool
While compiling a software project, I ran into this bug:
ld: warning table of contents of library: ./.libs/libfoo.a not sorted slower link editing will result (use the ranlib(1) -s option) ld: multiple definitions of symbol _bar
A Google search shows that this bug seems to be specific to Mac OS X.
I tried different libtool versions, but the problem remained. I tried patching libtool with a patch from the Fink people to fix the “libtool convienience library bug” as libfoo is a libtool convienience library, but no luck either.
Anyone out there developing software with libtool on MacOS X who has an idea how to fix this?
New Books
I am back in Vienna and enjoying my DSL-line, ISDN is so 1990s.
On the train I read two books, which I got from my sisters for Christmas, Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” and Paul Auster’s “The New York Triology”. The Da Vinci Code is very thrilling but i didn’t like the authors style of mixing facts and fiction.
Paul Auster’s book is well written and one of the saddest books i read.
I am in .de now
Yesterday night I traveled to Bad Segeberg. I managed to connect my ibook to the Internet by installing Sygate on the Windows PC of my parents, so I can use the ISDN card.
Weather is rainy and stormy. Every year I feel more like an alien in my former home town. And it looks like i forgot how to say “Moin”.