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2008-05-30

How was your week, Mr. Lawrence?

Filed under: Kesäkoodi — Antti Kaijanmäki @ 17:14

Nice week, indeed. Nothing big to rush blogging about, though. Here are some highlights:

I have requested an account for svn.gnome.org.

I installed glade-3 and some other stuff and immediately hit bug #112625 which is actually a gtk bug. I first tried to compile and package gtk from svn, but that was not very successful. I ended up patching the current hardy package. You can find the fixed package from my PPA. After you have added my PPA to your sources.list you can install the packages with following command:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev=2.12.9-3ubuntu4~ppa2 libgtk2.0-0=2.12.9-3ubuntu4~ppa2 gtk2-engines-pixbuf=2.12.9-3ubuntu4~ppa2 libgtk2.0-bin=2.12.9-3ubuntu4~ppa2 libgtk2.0-common=2.12.9-3ubuntu4~ppa2

I read through some debian and ubuntu packaging documents, but as the above install method demonstrates, I still have some learning to do :P

One friend of mine said to me that I have almost an obligation to start using all these web2.0 mambo jambo… Well, I registered at del.icio.us. It’s a pity there is no official plugin for firefox 3 yet, but I manage to find a beta. I also set up my Facebook account and updated my LinkedIn profile. I haven’t got the clue what to do with Facebook, though. I thought it was hilarious when Linked in suggested me the title “Independent Computer Software Professional” and why change it ;)

And yes, I watched Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.

2008-05-26

Here we GO!

Filed under: Kesäkoodi — Antti Kaijanmäki @ 14:54

Official project kick off is today! weeh 8-)

2008-05-21

back on track

Filed under: Kesäkoodi,personal — Antti Kaijanmäki @ 15:40

I promised to continue the story of my hard drive failure and I’m sorry for the delay. I’ve been just so busy with my studies [how does a BASIC interpreter that generates Solaris SPARC assembly sound to you?].

The original plan was to solder the cable directly on the hard drive. Fortunately I managed to attach the broken socket and cable with some hot glue (thnx Dartteri), and no soldering was necessary. Last weekend I finally copied all the data from the broken hard drive to my new RAID1 installation to safety. I really recommend everyone to have a SystemRescueCd at hand, because it can really safe your life and contains all the tools that standard distro install and live CDs are missing. It also has DBAN if you want to nuke some hot glued hard drives before you try to hit something with them.

So everything went well after all and now I’m extremely thrilled to wait next week and really to kick off my project.