Older blog entries for harshy (starting at number 97)

Almost have the AMD64 transition done. Basically just dicking around with cedega and stuff. It took me a whole 10mins to pull everything else together. The ia32 chroot is sweet. It is running cedega and firefox (firefox with realplayer and flash) transparently in the amd64 side of things. I havn't come across a package not in the archives yet so thats awesome. I even went as far as to steal xorg from ubuntu's hoary. Mmmm...goodness thus far.

I am now on Planet arslinux, so here is a shout out to them for adding me.

Normally I work Mon-Fri, but since it is the season to be jolly, I will be putting in a soild 8 hours tomorrow. Sweet thing about it is Ill still be able to watch the Steelers in my office. Off to drink tonight as normal however.

Hell has frozen over here in columbus. While I was at work, some idiot shot and kill Dimebag Darrel of damageplan at a nightclub I had been to many a drunk time. CNN has the story.

I am now running the AMD64 version of Debian. It is fast as hell. Ill have to chroot i386 to run some binary programs, but elsewise everything else works.

Argh, I am falling behind on the Coaster goodness. Bryan pushed 0.1.3 out yesterday and I didn't know till 5 minutes ago. The new computer is still having issues with heat which make it hard to do much and the laptop is dead for a strange reason. Never ends.

To those who celebrate it, Happy Thanksgiving! My weekend was filled with leftovers and pumpkin pie. Now the silly season is offically started and also, it is offically kick harshy in the ass at work season as well. I will be putting in a couple of 6 day weeks here soon.

I finnally broke down and did it. I went amd64. It took me a week to hunt down a system flaw which ended up being a faulty dvd drive. I had gone through 3 mainboards, 3 sticks of ram, 3 power supplies, 3 hard drives, and only 1 dvd drive. The system works now tho and all I need to do is make sure to improve the cooling system and quiet it up. I also need to get my 10000rpm raptors this month and I can then call this system offically kickass. Specs are as follows.

AMD64 3400+ Newcastle @ 2.4ghz

DFI LanParty UT NF3 250gb motherboard

1 gig DDR400 5-2-2-2 corsair ram

NVidia GeForce 6800GT

500w Ultra xconnect power supply

SilverStone TJ04 aluminum/steel hybrid case

All in all, a damn good system. I can play everything at full detail and full resolution minus AA, but then nvidia's AA was never a strong point.

"We don't give a damn fot the whole state of Michigan 'cause we're from O-H-I-O"

Go Bucks! This was by far the best game of the year and helped to get my long weekend started off right. Too bad college football is over for OSU minus the bowl game in January.

Watching the Steelers game right now. They are kickin some serious ass this year and I think they have a very good chance of going and dominating the super bowl.

Been working on trying to figure out how to sync arch to gnome. Should hopefully have that up this week. We released 0.1.2 of Coaster on the 16th, my b-day.

Birthday was fun. Was off of work so went to the bar that night and had a relaxing time playing pool.

Coaster 0.1.1 has been released. Is this the start of a new concept that Coaster development has never followed, or is this just a flux in time? I hope this is the new way we plan to do things. Bryan is working on the release often concept which I like. This is also good news for those who have waited eons for us to release.

Half way through my 4 day weekend. I have spent most of the time reconfiguring my mail system...yes again. I wanted to switch to maildirs on the imap server so that I could use offlineimap instead of a direct connection to the server. Couple days later and a few thounsand mail transfers, it seems done. Now I only have to figure out how I should keep a synced addressbook. Any ideas are welcome.

Sine it looks like G2.8 is going into sid, I might be able to package coaster. Sid just needs updated nautilus-cd-burn, libxml++2.6, and bakery 2.3.8. If we see those packages get an update, I can get coaster made up.

MMMM x.org in Ubuntu.

Moved the famous boromir bot from my local connection to a hopefully more stable server. Most of you #gnome-debian guys know boromir in some regard.

Coaster has new icons for it's burn file format. These are now in cvs-head for gnome-icon-theme. Take a peak here. Thanks jimmac! Again, you rock!

Coaster likes Ubuntu, so we may see debs for that first. Since there may be a possible move of G2.8 into SID, I should be able to fullfill the ITP there as well.

So the answer is yes...I have begun work on libcoaster again in hopes to stir up the libburn camp.

People keep buging me to make debs. Here is the deal guys, most of what coaster needs is not avilable in debian or ubuntu. This means I would have to go to great lengths to get any sort of binaries out there. This will take time and I do plan on throwing them out there someday with binary snapshots as well.

Just installed Ubuntu on my laptop. This is the way I wished Debian to be for many years now. I like how it is more up to date and more solid then unstable. I just wonder why if a lot of the Debian guys are working on Ubuntu, that Debian is behind.

Coaster 0.1.0 has been released Friday! This was a long time comming and the mails are flying in.

Coaster-GUI release on Friday? There is a very good chance of it. This release will not need the libcoaster backend. Issues there are still in need of a resolution. We are on a temp. switch to the nautilus-burn backend. I think I may propose that we support both the libcoaster and nautilus backends until we get libcoaster/libburn in the right. Stay tuned.