Writing this whilst over at the grandparents' looking after the dogs. It's eerily quiet. Living alone is going to suck. What bothers me is that I probably wouldn't care if i had net access right now. I need to listen to Ryan. Probably the most of anyone here...
Finally got around to dealing with azz's MWM hints patch -- I never particularly liked them, but I can deal with having if there and #ifdefed out. Having found another polish item in fixing that, I think I can get the next release out the door.
A really funny thing happened while azz and I were working it out -- we both did almost identical patches for rxvt, and sent them to each other at the same time. Of course, mine used override-redirect and his used MWM_something_or_other_no_border_please_etc, but this isn't too surprising if you know our respective personal tastes on the matter. Hopefully upstream will include them both and users will have the option.
Transparency in rxvt and derivatives is still broken and evil, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
I tidy-ified and XHTML-ified my web pages, and in doing so, I somehow changed my stylesheet so that it doesn't break Navigator 4.x completely anymore. I'm so bummed. I remember when it completely brought down the browser on a Windows system... ;-) At any rate, I highly reccomend tidy.
Decided I am a bumbling idiot that a certain newsgroup shouldn't have to skip over for a while. I know there's one or two of you here... I suppose I'll think about it again when school (and thus work at the STA) starts up again.
As if I needed further proof of having caught the Perl bug, I spent from 4 to 5 AM rewriting a perfectly good C program in Perl. I think it's because I wanted an excuse to fork off my revision, seeing as the author had seen fit to putting in all sorts of bloaty features since then.
Speaking of bloat, XText in Gnapster -- yuck. I'm only wary of it because it comes from XChat, and XChat is leaking memory like crazy as we speak. There are no good IRC clients... and I've become horribly addicted to tabs and Perl scripting. And I suppose I don't like the fact that it was put in before a way to fix the palette back to normal black-on-white was written. However, I am grateful that 1.3.11 is out at all. I sent a teensy patch to jasta back in the 1.3.10 days and I guess it got lost in the deluge of bugmail he surely gets[1]. Now that I'm sonewhat up to date with him, I can expand it and tweak every little UI thing that fits in same category. It's too bad there's no CVS, but I imagine that anything napster-related would attract a bunch of lusers who think they should expect CVS code to always work perfectly and that the author of course has time to answer all their complaints.
And with that, cue a luser rant... Burning off some much-unneeded steam in a good old classic flamewar. It's funny (but not really, I guess) how most people think they are so special that the rules for everyone else don't apply to them. Getting threats of action against ``my ISP'' for something as simple as replying to an insult is funny as hell, especially considering what the non-ISP entity in question actually is.
I am an evil pseudoromantic sap, and I still can't write decently.
Finally got to pinpointing (more like sledgehammerpointing) where the problem that's causing newer 2.[34].x kernels not to boot on my cra^Wlaptop. I've got about half of patch-2.3.11 to look through for the culprit, and sent a hopefully-not-too-clueless request for help narrowing it down further to l-k. I hope everyone isn't too completely locked onto doing 2.4.0-test or 2.2 work.
Taking pills makes me sick. It can't be what's in them, because they can't possibly dissolve that quickly. It has to be the act of swallowing. I think it's psychosomatic.
Pet peeve: CD-ROM drives that skip. I wouldn't even be using this one if my Discman wasn't horked. *sigh*...
[1] Eep, I just used ``bugmail'' as a generic, non-Bugzilla word. I'm getting enough of the real thing to necessitate a dedicated mailbox now, and I'm not even the one doing the fixing... :-)
jlbec: oh dear, don't use that.
if /bin/foo -bar; then
Never involve test unless you really must...