Author Archives: Stewart Smith

Fedora Core 3 Test 1

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Installed it on my crash-and-burn box.

Dual PII 350mhz, 128MB RAM (and a number of disks… this is on a 120GB WD drive, but on a slow IDE controller)

and, of course, the ultimate in graphics power, an S3 Trio3D.

So, install took about an hour. Not very snappy, but it got there. Not enough time using CPU while doing disk writes. multithreaded RPM installation would rock :)

Reported a bunch of bugs, some feature enhancements and found the desktop backgrounds :)

SELinux is now on by default… and so far I’ve only hit one bug with it (namely that you couldn’t launch the software update). bytebot said I should update to get the update to fix the updater, so i ran ‘yum update’ in the terminal. Hrrm…. not so quick with only 128MB ram. oh well…

Currently Watching

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The Hours.

it’s a very good film. cast is wonderful.

squash racquet

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bought one today. now i don’t have to hire the darn things and put up with bent raquets with strings that are barely there.

also going to pick up a CD drive for the Alpha’s i have bumming around here. means i can load an OS a heck of a lot easier! :)

GNOME programming with only a GUI

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http://www.flamingspork.com/junk/gnome-drivers.tar.bz2

Is my attempt at a little gnome app only using GUI utilities. It’s a graphical lsmod, showing what modules are currently loaded on your system.

I’m now kicking around trying to integrate modinfo with it so you can get a nice slab of information about what modules you’ve got loaded. Then I can go and integrate modprobe :)

the code is kind of ugly… really shows that this was a hack so that i could learn how GTK and all work a bit better… but, it’s libglade based, so that’s cool.

I’ve now learnt how programmed I am to the emacs key bindings while coding… it’s really annoying when they don’t all work. Maybe we need an emacs text editor widget.. :)

augie march – official website

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augie march – official website

Great music, but one day will they PLEASE get a web site that has some form of usability. I mean, really.

FTA disastrous for Australian computer industry and users

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Dr Andrew Tridgell (or tridge as he is more commonly known as) has got a great paper up on his site about the AU-US FTA. It’s short, sweet and to the point.
FTA disastrous for Australian computer industry and users

In "About the Author" he does fail to simply say “tridge: genius”, but he does tend to be a bit modest :)

Get Well Pia!

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http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/blog/1090247739

But remember to also enjoy the morphine :)

all about never getting drawing on a web search

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That’s why I’m linking to Sketches on the hope that if we do it in enough places, we’ll be able to convince certain search engines that it’s the most important type of drawing or drafting something out there.

google and wayback machine

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help find old source that you thought could have been lost. ahhh… googling for your own work.

and qemu with i386 only binaries is nice too. works quite well. I mean, sure I actually have sunk low enough to have i386 machines around, but this is way cooler :)

new hardware

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A firewire card for my desktop (because my Asus P4P800 Deluxe motherboard’s connectors DO NOT WORK, but this shintaro one does), a TV tuner card (now i need an ariel), and a new wireless card for my laptop (802.11g, not that i have a g access point, but this one actually supports 128bit wep.).

Plus, it has open source linux drivers (that work on ppc).

Also some CDs and DVDs.

american talk shows

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Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake and whatever else is on has this wonderful effect of no matter how crap your life is, no matter how screwed up you feel, they let you know that there’s always a country with a ready supply of people more screwed up.

mess

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everybody’s mess is okay but mine.

Inkscape

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Just did my first illustration using Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). It’s pretty cool. Open Source Vector illustrator (produces SVG graphics and has good bitmap export).

i.e. select what you want, File->Export Bitmap (and it’s already gone to the “export selection” thing, choose the res of the image, where it is, and click export.

Funky!

Slashdot | Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined

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Slashdot | Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined

More press (references a research paper in the Australian Parliamentary Library) about the negative impacts of the Intellectual Property sections of the AU-US “Free” Trade Agreement.

bottom 100 films

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bottom 100 films

rss feeds

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starting to think everyone should have them… they’re cool :)

well, okay – useful for keeping track of friends.

okay – maybe we should just like, actually meet up and spend some time out in the real world – but sometimes it’s just not possible :(

exciting new world of comments

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comments are back! well, until the spam is unmanagable, and then i’ll have to go and moderate everything. At least it’s better than MT though, where it just accepts everything and you have to go hunting for bad things.

I like WordPress!

I’ve started to use Straw again, a cool News aggregator for GNOME (written in Python from memory). Basically to try and keep up with various blogs/dev blogs around the place.

The Chaser News – IOC finds Al Qaeda more prepared for Olympics than Athens

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The Chaser News

Pretty funny and worryingly quite possibly true.

Moving to WordPress

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Wow, here I am, and so far pretty impressed by wordpress. yeah, the MT import has happenned for me, now to update Giz.

and find out why my last two entries aren’t displaying….