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.
Author: arved
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 🙁
Popular map
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
rssfetch 0.2.1
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.
WLAN woes
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
Are you a Wikipediholic?
The Wikipedia Database Server is down. Just as I wanted to submit an update on the DMCA entry. People on the IRC channel pointed me to this test. I got 46 points. What’s your score?
Visited countries
Found via Horst. Douwe Osinga has written a nice program, that draws a map of Visited Countries.
My map looks like this:
According to the page, I have vised 4% of worlds countries. And they are all in Middle Europe :-(.
Especially I need to visit more countries from Eastern Europe. Slovakia is next door, only 60km, but i haven’t been there yet.
Quote of the day
“I think that FreeBSD can best be visualized as a vast desert full of
committers who are totally lost.” Silby on the freebsd-cvs-src Mailinglist