Older blog entries for hadess (starting at number 293)

Bleh, sick all day. I still managed to fix the Joliet ISO creation bug in nautilus-cd-burner, backport a bunch of fixes to the stable branch and update Totem's stuff from libbacon and libegg. I've also done a bit of work towards my audio CD burning tool, a bit of a test application for the work that Ross did in n-c-b more than anything else.

My desktop looks Brenty. I'll do the dance tomorrow when I feel better.

Little bit of nautilus-cd-burner hacking and bug-fixing, trying to get GNOME 2.5 up and running so that I can test the new nautilus, and fix the pending stuff in n-c-b and gnome-vfs-extras. Hopefully start porting Totem to the new APIs. Oh, and I still need to finish merging ACME. Grumble.

Kitten-fu. Watched Wayne's World 2 (that was after the lobotomy).

Went to Ikea with Amelia, and bought loads of stuff, including a very much needed dining room table. We're so useless in this house.

Spent the evening closing magicdev bugs. It's clearly getting into shape.

Today, I managed to fix a buglet in xine-lib that annoyed me for a good while. Videos with 8-bit sound would just barf static for a couple of seconds and then be mute. All that because we're not checking for the new value of the bit per sample variable returned by the SNDCTL_DSP_SAMPLESIZE ioctl. The OSS semantics are a bit vague on this, but at least there's good documentation, unlike ALSA.
I also watched Johnny English.

I'm not forgetting the duderino. That was the first time I had to break such a news to a person, and you have that horrible feeling in your guts... I'll remember you with your big smile. And right now, it's hard for me to do so.

Fixed a bunch of xine-lib bugs, attended the Helix Player confcall, bashed their license with xiph and jrb. GNOME can't use it, Totem can't use it. Right now, nobody can use it.

alex did a big update to the SMB method in gnome-vfs-extras, Sun upgraded my old Connect to dialog, and 2 projects are coming closer together through the magic of XDG.

Watched Carlito's Way and The Godfather this week-end. I also managed to finish Futurama (the game and the 4th season) off. I spent quite a bit of time sorting out the crap on my hard-drive, finding impossible to play movies downloaded from the GStreamer website (circa 2000), songs I didn't remember I had, and played good ol' DOS games with DOSBox. Ha, the good old Prince of Persia.

Did some kudzu/magicdev/d-bus hacking, and finished up the automount patch. Plug, poof, disk-on-key sitting on the desktop. Voila.

So, I have a cracked (maybe broken) rib, loads of anti-inflammatory, and started hacking on ACME for GNOME 2.6. At least my diaries are starting to make sense.

Watched Interview with a vampire, made a great dive with my bike, didn't fix any bugs. Bugger.