29 Sep 2005 Marcus   » (Master)

Weather is changing over to fall ... Cloudy sky, rain, etc... Even for the upcoming long weekend.

Did what I could for the new openSUSE alpha1 snapshot, updated wine, fixed some packages use of RPM_OPT_FLAGS.
We continue to put in more stricter warning checks against common problems in C and C++ code, but this means everything must be compiled with RPM_OPT_FLAGS to get "-Wall" and later more -W options. This has also the nice effect of getting -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 and general optimization options into every package easily. Especially in the light of openSUSE where people will really want to recompile everything with -O99 -fmake-even-faster etc.

The first Wifi supporting cameras with mid-ranged price is going to hit the german market this week hopefully... The Nikon P1 and P2. I am planning to buy a P2, mostly so I can add PTPIP support to libgphoto2... But you know how it is with geeks and their toys. :)

And somehow I get a bit overwhelmed on planetsuse.org with the "klik" commercials. Also my security spidersense tingle dangerously.

Todays random thought: What about disgusting screensavers?

  • Make screen look like you are in a smokers room ... sickly yellow, slightly blurry and grainy with wavering cloud effects.
  • cleaning women attacked ... looking like half of dust has been swiped away.
  • Fat Finger Attack
  • "random pixel error" screensaver
  • serious broken effects (magnetic distortion for CRT, punctures for TFT)
  • monitor deadjusted (stretch or shrink, moved off center in one direction) (CRT only)

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