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Kweather says its 16� outside, thats around 6 degrees too warm. Additional the sun shines. It feels like springtime in February. Where are my sunglasses?

Surfed on orkut today. Noticed I am connected via 4 hops to Wesley Clark, one of the democratic party’s US President nominations.
Note: This profile is being managed for Wes Clark by Cameron Barrett, an employee of his campaign. It is official.
The profile isn’t very verbose. I have learned that he is loving pets and that he classifies himself as clever. He has joined the communities “Clark for Prez”, “Clark04”, “Military technology” and “Bush is stupid”.
Yeah, politics of the 21. century. Luckily it doesn’t look like he is going to win, he has only 141 orkut “friends”.

KDE 3.2 was released yesterday. This time the ports were not ready in time. One of the reasons, I tried not getting involved this time. But we are nearly done. I am currently testing. So I guess we should be done until tomorrow.

Like nearly Everyone, I got invited to Orkut. Because I read Horsts article I only filled in the required fields. The Website is running on ASP, very un-geeky. Of course I managed to get “Service unavailable” several times during the registration process.

Probably every opensource developer makes this mistake once. Releasing a new version of his program, without bumping the version number in the “About Dialog”. I have always wondered how that could happen. Now I managed it myself in a very stupid way. The rsscript ran successfull in the test environment. I bumped the version in CVS. I discovered a last minute bug, corrected it direct on the testserver and copied the testversion into the development environment and didn’t look careful enough at the cvs diff. D’oh!

lofi said on #kde-freebsd, that he successfully compiled valgrind on FreeBSD using dfr’s patch. See also this Thread on the valgrind Mailinglist.
Trying to get it running would be an interesting project for the holidays (starting tomorrow), but most likely, I will not have the time.

Today Koffice 1.3 was released. The FreeBSD port will be updated when KDE 3.2 is released. I am really excited, if Bug 57552 has been fixed and if the new Excel Import filter is now comparable to the OpenOffice.org filter.

The Visited Countries map was the most popular article in this blog so far.
Now there are Maps on various blogs I read: lauri,Rob, AK and mihi

Today I worked on rssfetch, after I received my first bugreport by ak.

I made a lot of progress and I am very comfortable with the new version, since for the first time it parses all feeds from my blogroll. The only feed that needs a workaround was the FreeBSD.org feed, which is broken according to the W3C RDF validator.

Continue reading “rssfetch 0.2.1”

Yesterday I took my iBook to university for the first time to test the new 802.11g accesspoints and the WLAN stumblers for Mac OS X. The result was disappointing. I tried KisMAC, Macstumbler and iStubmler. None of them was able to discover the university’s WLAN, although I was connected to it. I guess this is because the Airport Extreme Card only works in passive mode, because it is a Broadcom chip. And Broadcom sucks regarding release of specs.

Another lack of MacOS X, I couldn’t find any information about Signal strengh and at what connection speed i am connected to the Accesspoint. On FreeBSD wicontrol(8) and ifconfig(8) give me all the information I need. But I have found no equivalent on MacOS X.
The ifconfig output looks really poor compared to FreeBSD’s:

# ifconfig en1
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::20a:95ff:fef7:1d4c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.1.24 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:0a:95:f7:1d:4c
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect