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17 Nov 2004 (updated 17 Nov 2004 at 06:17 UTC) »
Ubuntu

I have no idea why I updated my system to Ubuntu while the only apps I am using these days are vim bash and Terminal.app. But that's how to manage boredom, I guess.

GNUspeech

It is being discussed in GNUstep mailing list about using GNUspeech which was given to GNU long time ago to implement NSSpeechSynthesis. I went through the list and found this message. I have a feeling like, from its maintainer's attitude, GNUspeech (which is in Objective-C) should be forked and maintained by GNUstep developers instead. Although it would be nice if we can provided C API wrapper for the rest of the world.

Kernelnewbies

Years ago I've painted stuffs for Kernelnewbies.org. Those are Penny and some t-shirt designs (they never made those shirts though, AFAIK). I do not interested in reading any kernel source code anymore (unless someone is insane enough to write kernel threads in Objective-C and tie DO to l4 messaging) and no longer staying in the channel. I think I am one of the reason why riel started the channel since I have been kicked around in #linux somewhere on MIT irc server for loading the channel with silly questions :( (Alan Cox and Riel are so nice to answer them) Hmm, I am missing Uncle Snafu.

Window Maker

Just a side note. I'm wondering if this is a good thing to tie desktop notification system to NS. I think it is better to try to extend NET_WM et al. in WMaker to manage stuffs and I don't think it is too ideal to use only X communication. There are many applications outside GNUstep world that should rely on these desktop managements and informations. Though it could be good in short term and that may worth it. But I still think it is better to focus on other things like unify configuration and decorations, eg. replacing WINGs with GNUstep (although a basic layer for importing and exporting configurations should be enough and simply use X messaging channels that already provided by WMaker, those that WPrefs is using). Thus, using NSWindow to do window decoration will be expensive because it will allocate memory in the backend for each and most of the time most part of it isn't visible since covered by the app. A custom window class mixing both types of windows should solve the problem though.

Maliwan

I'm prototyping a collection factory class. When factories form up a network, a virtual factory will be created to manage each network's production. This virtual factory can be mixed into other network and act like a traditional factory. Another thing is Pipe class will be rewritten to base on target/selector model. Now I don't know if I can finish all these by this year.

The Grudge
This is a remade of Ju-On with SMG. IMO, Ju-On is too far better.

3:50am
Just finished 2 movies. Waterboys and The Hole.

Kalamae
Well.. I wish I can be your Beagle 2, better than dogs.. and er.. from Mars.

31 Oct 2004 (updated 31 Oct 2004 at 19:01 UTC) »

I'm thinking of using xcf2 as a default icon format in garma. This will allow me to freely manipulate my icons on the fly like copositing and mixing a few pixmaps to construct an icon or mix two default icons to make another one, ie. a blank folder and images of video, documents, photos, etc. (May be I need another IconKit to wrap this up? If so I'll just wrap it around Maliwan). I am also thinking of drafting my own icon specs. I don't like a few things in Quentin's draft. Though, may be I'll just accept the draft if it can state it clear about the geometry of the 3d icons.

26 Oct 2004 (updated 26 Oct 2004 at 18:40 UTC) »
Lapis
Mocking new extra brightness on the current mock.

iBook
My iBook won't sleep when I close it. I don't know why but I like that, so now I can use it to warm me up in these winter nights.

Boring
Boring boring boring boring boring boring...

23 Oct 2004 (updated 23 Oct 2004 at 15:43 UTC) »

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18 Oct 2004 (updated 18 Oct 2004 at 18:06 UTC) »
  • Cairo

    Here's a quick note to remind me and any GNUstep reader later that Cairo won't support 1 pixel line width by 0 setlinewidth.

  • Maliwan

    Working on moving Maliwan from gsdoc to doxygen and here is the generated html documentation. See maliwan's blog for more news.

  • GNUstep

    Tomorrow (well.. it actually is tomorrow here) OpenStep will turn 10. Quite a surprise, I just know by Paul F. Kunz's (GNUstep father and I guess it's safe to call him GNUstep grandpa tomorrow) e-mail to the discuss list that GNUstep was started before OpenStep was annouced.

  • Movie

    I'll finally see Resident Evil 2 tomorrow! Wheeee!

  • Movie

    I saw The house of flying daggers today. Kinda like it but I felt like I want to check the outline plot for every movie I want to see and make sure the actress won't die. Oh, did I just spoil you? Not really.

  • XWiRE

    I was coding in the bus today. Got something to work with a few lines of code.

  • Speed Net Club

    I had to rub my eyes seeing all these kids and gals using GNU/Linux at the internet cafe I visited today. I thought it was just great for such a country that is well known for software piracy like Thailand.

  • GNUstep's Cairo backend is in CVS now

    Fred checked in the tree for me and also added some modification including coding standard. Thanks Fred a lot. Now I can remove all existing trees including one on WOOM's CVS. I was reading Rasterman's comment on EFL/cairo/xrender on osnews and I have a feeling like I cannot wait for Evas to have bezier path support. Another backend? Ouch.. What about OpenVG?

  • Garma's second wall paper

    Here is it, the second Del Zeeti wall paper, done in GIMP. Now only if I could use Blu Tulip to draw.. this reminds me that I didn't start working on tablet support in back-x11 yet. I am joining #gimp and folks suggest me some nice tutorials on drawing manga. I know I need to practice a lot more.

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