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arch detection in a configure script

Found by lofi in kdemultimedia:

AC_MSG_CHECKING(machine architecture)
AC_SUBST(ARCH_TYPE)
ARCH_TYPE=`uname -m`
if test `uname -s` = "FreeBSD"
then
HW_MODEL=`sysctl -n hw.model`
case "$HW_MODEL" in
"Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron")
ARCH_TYPE="i686"
;;
esac
fi;
AC_MSG_RESULT($ARCH_TYPE)

*rotfl*

Springtime

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?

orkut madness II

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!