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...