Older blog entries for hadess (starting at number 308)

Finally finished the ACME integration in the control-center. In a short time, I'll be able to stop caring about the first GNOME module in bugzilla (the first alphabetically that gets me all the crappy bug reports of the "I didn't know where else" kind). Three typos fixed later (forgot a slash here, swapped 2 items in a list, called _init twice instead of _init then _load, you know, the kind of mistake you make at 4 AM), it works much better.

Watched Cold Mountain (really brilliant film), Bedazzled, Shallow Grave, and The Devil's Advocate (one of my all-time favourites).

Watched Prizzi's Honor and What Women Want.

I've nearly finished integrating ACME into the control center. Only need to polish up the gnome-settings-daemon integration and fix up metacity to allow keycodes to be bound.

All hyped up by this post, I updated the ieee1394 code in my 2.6 installation, and funnily enough, Firewire works fine on my machine now. So I spent a (too long) bit of time trying to fix a memory corruption bug when building the tree off the iTunesDB in qahog's libipod. In the end, the code is so convoluted and badly written (bizarre highly recursive functions, magic numbers everywhere), that you can't do anything without having the database specs next to you. And even that wasn't enough. On to plan B, I'll just steal gtkpod's code.

Watched High Fidelity (that's in my top 5 "Feel better about yourself when you see how fucked up some relationships are"). And I received a belated b-day present in the form of a Pere Noel est une ordure and Papy fait de la resistance double boxed-set.

Funny how they use a picture of Pierce Brosnan to illustrate something about U.S. Actors in Japan adverts. (He's Irish, in case you didn't know)

Been a bad person and watched Empire Records instead of going to bed. I also made up a highly expensive and devoid of artistic content wishlist (watch out that grammar for the HREF surprise at the end of the sentence). Maybe I'll just add some decent stuff in case somebody has money to spare.

Watched Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Great Escape, Bill and Ted's most excellent adventures (Dude, totally GNOME-style), Galaxy Quest, Brazil (Do you have form 27B-'stroke'-6?), Charlie's Angels 2 and Billy Elliot.

I'm vegetating watching films, Christmas-style. I haven't finished my audio CD burner, but I already made my GNOME 2.5 tarballs.

Update: This ustensil looks like a good way to have good and cheap PC joypads.

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.