it seems. so they keep me as a customer. everything still looks the same, and seems to function the same.
maybe it was just a behind the scenes upgrade, and the support guy was just saying what’s on his screen from before?
Bblog: Westpac: standards avoidance
Hrrm… I really hope that everything works fine in mozilla derived browsers.
Personally, I use epiphany. It was ready and working before firefox was (although I used it exclusively for a hell of a long time on IRIX last year). So, if it doesn’t work, and they’re not going to fix it – I’ll have to seriously consider switching banks.
This is an extra annoyance as Mark Tearle has gone through a fair bit of re-organising moving LA’s bank accounts over to Westpac (largely because their internet banking stuff made a lot more sense for us).
The old site was great. I only ever had one problem with it – mozilla based stuff rendered the page slightly wider than the screen. But, I’ve happily put up with that. Everything worked .No bloody java stuff required (this is due to the problems of getting a working java plugin on linux-ppc – i don’t want binary only stuff).
I could view things, bpay, export statements out into a format suitable for import into GNUcash.
So Westpac – will you loose a customer? I guess we’ll soon find out.
Was at the airshow yesterday – with all the benefits of knowing people in the business :)
Mad people doing airobatics, mad guy hanging upside-down off the wing of a plane while it then barrell-rolled so he was standing up. Pretty cool to watch.
Of course, then there was the fighter jets. fast, loud, and i swear the F16 can do a u-turn in less space than half the cars on the road.
Then, of course, there’s the air force supply planes that do crazy landings, take offs and can fly a few feet above the ground while dropping supplies/releif out the back.
When the US air force guy was saying what missions some of their fighters had flown in, notably absent was Gulf War II. Hrrmm… maybe a touchy subject? Who knows.
An F111 doing a dump and burn is always pretty to see.
their multithreaded core dump lib and their memory stuff looks interesting…
being able to core dump a multithreaded app *while running* would be so cool.
Hit an error condition, dump out a core file to send to engineers to fix it. even if it’s recoverable. rock.
Install Day (Semester 1, 2005) – Monash IT Society (Clayton)
So, back at uni (you know, that place you’re at when you’re a student), and back with the old computer science club (but under a different name… well… ah…urrr…because… who the fuck knows why) they’re having a linux install day next week.
i’ll probably go along for a couple of hours and hand out lots of ubuntu cds that i’ve got lying around and probably get asked a lot of mysql questions.
maybe it’d be cool to have a “MySQL CD” with all mysql stuff for all platforms on it (with lots of autorun stuff). esp if we could make them cheaply enough to give away at a bunch of events (like install days).
Maybe i’ll burn a couple of CDs to take along (windows, mac, linux binaries)
… and not in debian.
so, can see if it makes a difference to performance on my desktop. should be fun!
are finally at a decent price! hopefully one should come in for me this afternoon. Would love an extra bunch of ram in my laptop…. should (by tonight) have 1.5GB instead of just 768MB.
tried FC4t1 on desktop – with SELinux. barely got anywhere. firstboot didn’t run, X config was strange (but that’s a norm, two monitors generally confuses things).
It also overwrote my MBR, despite being told not to. grr..
Went to the Belgian Beer Cafe yesterday with daniels. Was good – good beer and good catch up.
Had lunch at Chocolate Budda in Fed Square too. Good food there.
This also marked the first time I’ve been to Flinders St station since at least the start of December last year. Went okay.
Anyone who has seen Ringu will know what this looks like.
This is where we went for holiday.
I’ve just switched to using Liferea for my RSS feeds. It’s really quite sweet. Fast, categories, smart vfolders (e.g. ‘unread’), choice of Mozilla or gtkhtml rendering.
Funky, funky, funky, funky.
after lots of hacking and modifying and tweaking, something actually builds.
Of course, linking is another thing alltogether.
oh, and if anything remotely works.
Well, I installed the preview packages in Ubuntu on my desktop this morning – just to play with for a few mins. Guess What? It looks like it doesn’t completely suck!
Some of the UI still feels/looks really weird – but that seems to be a legacy of the strange widget stuff that it used to use.
The “File->Send->Document as E-Mail” and “Document as PDF Attachment” are pretty funky things (assuming they link into evo properly).
The presentation module, Impress looks to have improved no-end. 1.1 was sucky (just like PowerPoint). If you’ve ever used Apple’s Keynote, you know how good presentation software can be. The new one looks to be usable and may mean I swear a lot less when preparing presentations.
Although why OO.org has it’s own package manager is totally beyond me.
I do wish the MySQL connectivity worked out of the box though… maybe it’s just this beta (or the fact that when you select OO.org in synaptic, it doesn’t load up all the Java stuff needed for JDBC connectivity, or ODBC).
Note that I still love Gnumeric and Abiword.
sudo apt-get install libgtkmm2.0-dev libglade2-0 \
libglade2-dev libgtkhtml3.0-4 libgtkhtml3.0-dev \
libxml2 libxml2-dev uuid-dev libuuid1
Then, grab the source trees (mysql-gui-common, mysql-administrator, mysql-query-browser). You should probably grab source tarballs rather than using the BK trees… I had to edit some files to get it to build – but that’s probably just today. Tomorrow it will be a different story.
you’ll want to add the path to mysql_config to your PATH
cd mysql-gui-common; sh ./autogen.sh –prefix=/whatever/you/want && make && make install
cd ../mysql-adiministrator; sh ./autogen.sh –prefix=/whatever/you/want && make && make install
cd ../mysql-query-browser; sh ./autogen.sh –prefix=/whatever/you/want && make && make install
you should then be able to run them and connect to a mysql server
Quite easy to get going under Warty (as well as Debian Sid).
Add a printer (System Configuration -> Printers, double click ‘Add Printer’). Select Local Printer, “USB Printer #1” as the port, then, select the model as Epson Stylus C64. Works fine.
I guess you can fiddle with quality settings and everything – but I haven’t yet.
This is the printer that was bought for mum – and it’s working fine for her.
now…. only to find a printer for me….
i print rarely, but when I do, i want it to work. Inkjets have not worked well for me in the past in this regard (spending 10 minutes running head cleaning and replacing cartridges because they’ve half dried up is not fun).
I’m thinking laser. Konica Minolta seems to have a 2430DL colour laser with network and GPL Linux drivers for $499USD (about $800AUD i think… finding prices today). You have to love it when they have a tux on their site :)
A duplexer would be nice too – i like having double sided print outs (yay – the greenie hippy in me is working hard).
Yes “only” 18….
although the “make installation procedure not suck” has to be the most important.
I’m very tempted to branch and make a 0.3.1 release the “no, it really works this time” release. mainly because there were still a few annoying bugs (being female could cause you trouble if you messed with the edit-member page. It would store it okay, just always display it wrong (which meant that it *looked* like it wasn’t recording you as female).
Hopefully I’ve stopped the javascript error box popping up on some platforms too.
yes, this made my /home on my desktop mountable again!
mdadm --build -c8 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/md1 /dev/hda5 /dev/hde5
Debian or Ubuntu overwrote the RAID superblock obviously. It’s funny how it really doesn’t work well when you silently change the stripe size of a raid volume.
I finally got around to installing the bk-emacs integration that i cloned way back when. Seems useful enough. I do like emacs – some things I do wish were better (especially how to get started – it’s annoying having to learn weird keys for things). But, once you know it – it’s great! Very fast to navigate around and very powerful (and customisable to whatever you’re doing atm).
bk://bk-emacs.bkbits.net/emacs
although the web is probably better :)
http://bk-emacs.bkbits.net/emacs
Some things seem a bit odd… but nothing has blown up!
This is not only classic, but something that I shall now be thinking about whenever coding:
So I said, narrow the focus. Your “use case” should be, there’s a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
That got me a look like I had just sprouted a third head, but bear with me, because I think that it’s not only crude but insightful. “How will this software get my users laid” should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software).
“Social software” is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy: meeting, communicating, and hooking up.