Older blog entries for hadess (starting at number 302)

Watched Les Triplettes de Belleville and Amelie (again, so uplifting). Yay for French films on Chrimbo day.

The USB speakers are holding up well, they make the whole desk tremble, and, as I was asked, they use about 2-3% CPU, MP3 decoding included. But this machine is a 2.5 GHz P4. I wouldn't use those on my PPC machine. What's bizarre is that one of my soundcards is using OSS and the USB speakers are using ALSA... Now that will make it easy. Damn.

Watched Shangai Noon. Nice christmas eve dinner. Shame I couldn't find any oysters, I'll have to find that out on New Year's Eve instead.

Those new USB speakers are real powerhouses, works out of the box, and they're as big as my "bookshelf" case. And the volume buttons from the speakers show ACME on my screen. Only not for the proper soundcard. Need to work on that.

Watched The Bone Collector and The Insider. For once a Michael Mann movie makes sense.

Hacked on libgtop a bit.

rml: try grape (like in your screenshot) and a mild cow cheese, apple and camembert, or chieves and plum tomatoes. Those are great combinations. I'm hacking on drivers/usb/cheese-grater-automatic.c doesn't sound right.

Watched The Killing Zone and Scrooged (how timely) (and I'm talking about the second one).

Killed bugs in gnome-mime-data, libgtop and Totem.

I also bought a little chrimbo tree, about 6 inches high, to put on the living-room table. They didn't carry big trees in Marks and Sparks. This one doesn't need a lot of decorations, that's good, less stuff to lose for next year.

Watched Saving Grace and Forces of Nature (reach for the bucket already). I made the index of my little website show my diary. Blogger boys.

Older but none the wiser. My mum tells me I'm supposed to be responsible now, it's the age (the age being 18 for girls to be mature, men are just boys with credit cards).

A quarter of a century already. My friends had a nice b-day cake for me: green. Football pitch green with a lovely cup in the middle. And not your average shirt green, but Dublin T-Shirt GUADEC green. Unwearable, but I wasn't planning on doing that with the cake.

Pardon my french, but you are an asshole.

Woot, quite a lot of stuff achieved today. That nice sensation of having done something with your time, even though the strain on your eyelids seems to tell you that you just took more time than usual to achieve things in.

A workmate pointed me at Maurice Massar's work on vpnc, achieving all that I wanted to achieve without wanting to look into it ;) So the nifty little veepnc is back on the track. I created a bunch of RPMs for it (vpnc, not veepnc), back on my small repo.

Managed to fix a few Totem bugs, including a big one with the playlist saving, and released a new libgtop for 2.4 so that the 2.6 kernel-users can see their memory usage properly.

Spent most of the evening ironing out the myriad of buglets that make using a 2.6 kernel on FC difficult. Now I have patches to make my boot warning-less and my drivers actual load like I would expect them to. Thanks to Simon Kelley, I even have my WLAN card working properly.

Back of the net

My main man Ricky Gervais is nominated for two Golden Globes. Dancing is O(1). The Golden Globes are Brentastic.

rml: It's my housemate that's overeating not my CPU.

Hey, this is getting better, I was only sick for half-a-day! Committed the nautilus-cd-burner fixes, finished the xine-lib bug report form, and started pestering my bank.

NatWest's online service keeps on telling me I should use IE. As there are quite a few other banks that actually work with Mozilla, I'm considering switching if their customer service guys can't come up with a decent answer.

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.