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”.
upcoming KDE 3.2
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.
orkut
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.
version number mistake
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!
le got a commit bit
Yesterday le got his new commit bit. Now Wien-Hernals has two committers, which is a quite high committer-density.
We are now waiting for his first pointy hat to arrive ;-).
The INDEX breaker
I am wearing the pointy hat now. Yesterday evening I broke the INDEX.
The index is a database-like file to search the FreeBSD ports collection. It contains names, descriptions and dependencies of all ports. It is generated by “make index”. index breakage usually occurs if someone wants to be extra clever and the commiter is not suspicious enough.
I made the commit yesterday, just before i went home, and at home i prefered to read the newspaper before checking email. After I have found the bunch of emails from the Tinderbox, I fixed it immediatly, but bad luck, the tinderbox now has a problem and did not pick up my fix. It continues to email failure reports to ports@FreeBSD.org just to make me feel guilty.
valgrind on FreeBSD
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.
New Koffice release
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.
Categories
Finally I have categorized around 120 Blogentries from the last half year.
There are three classes of blog entries. One Third fits into a specific Category (e.g. FreeBSD). One Third fits into no category, and the last third fits into multiple categories. Which algorithm do people use to stuff there blog entries into categories? What are they doing if they can’t find a specific category?
Icons?
I just played with MT Plugins. This entry should have an icon, If i installed everything correct.
I noticed that the MT Plugin API sucks. If I place a random file in my plugins folder, the MT CGI dies 🙁