As always before a release KDE fails on some strange architectures, resulting in annoying mails from Kris on the KDE Mailinglist. This time aRts on AMD64 (somewhere in gsllib) and koffice on IA64 (The usual -fPIC issue). I am currently testing a sledgehammer fix for koffice on pluto2 and I hope Adriaan takes a look at aRts.
Final Countdown FreeBSD 5.2
With two days delay, caused by problems with the bento-Ports Cluster, the Ports Freeze has finally started. Unfortunately the TODO list ist still quite long, so I don’t know if we will manage to release before Chrismas.
I spent the weekend, updating the evil Acer Laptop to 5.2-BETA, which went surprisingly smooth and with help from Lukas I tried to explore the ACPI Configuration. Unfortunately “shutdown -p” still does not work, and resume is also broken.
FreeBSD RDF feed b0rked?
Again mails from my Cron Daemon:
Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/XML/RSS.pm line 1352.
Looks like my script does not like the new FreeBSD committers :-(. The feed seems to be valid, as Mozilla does not complain.
Spam Stupidity
Why are people allowed to complain about spam, that can’t read Email headers 🙁
Link
More Kernel Bugs than Ports Bugs
Yesterday was a celebration day for the FreeBSD ports people. For the first time since two years, there were more kern/ PRs than ports/ PRs.
Click on the image below to get more details from Brian S. Dean’s PR stats
Ports Freeze
Ports Freeze for FreeBSD 5.2 is starting tomorrow. I am trying to close some PRs now.
Mixed Feelings
Sometimes, when I have solved an exercise or understood a proof, I think it would be fun to study Mathematics.
Sometimes I think Mathematics just sucks and that I am just too stupid to ever understand it.
At the moment the latter prevail. But maybe thats just because I am hungry, tired and another deadline is upcoming.
Two new events
I have added two events to .
I will visit 20C3 at least one day, while travelling back from Germany to Vienna.
In February I plan to visit FOSDEM, because I have never been in Brussel.
In January I already planned to visit NordU. They now have the program online. 2 Full days FreeBSD 5.x tutorial with Kirk McKusick sounds interesting. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any information about how to pay.
lunar eclipse
Okay added another feed. Godany has nice pictures of last night’s lunar eclipse. I discovered her blog through the Evil Horst’s blog and visited it from time to time last week. Second person in the feedlist that I haven’t talked to yet, neither in Real Life nor on IRC. She is living and working in Vienna.
BTW Now there 10 feeds.
Blogshares
After talking about real money yesterday. This next entry will be about virtual blogshares. You probably noticed the new button on the lower left. I didn’t really understand the concept, but obviously Rob is a professional blogshare player since he already bought shares from this blog.