Older blog entries for kimusan (starting at number 12)

Weee I got a new love in my life....
......it's my new superduper computer.
Today I got the last parts for my new computer, and I must say im excited :o) It's a Athlon Tunderbird 800mhz, with 256mb Ram, 40gb harddrive, and ofcause with CD, CDR and DVD . I just runs perfect with linux, and I just love when everything is loaded in less than a sec.
well enough about my new computer...

Hacking:
I've been working on the Nautilus Trash Script, and it now supports wildcards (*) when it deletes files and restores files. I still has some problems with directories, but im working on that.
The next release will also be able to handle multiple files with same name.

Hacking stuff...
.....The real way
Me and kanikus has been hacking one some scripts for different things. The first script is part of the Nautilus Console Scripts, and is aTrashcan script.
It's almost done....atleast for deleting/undeleting one file at a time. We had quite some problems parsing the XML files we use for information storage.
the other script is an xml2pot script, that converts XML-files containing program string info, into pot files for later translation.
Now this script is giving us some real headache. It is just so fu..... fustrating to parse xml files for strings when it has to be possible to convert it back later. Our biggest problem is that we dont have anywhere to store info about the xml-nodes (which differs from file to file). Anyone got an idea how to solve this??
Well school starts in a week, so maybe I can figure out a way to solve this when I have freshend up my memory with some new stuff.

A little of the Chat on irc.gnome.org in the channel #danmark (a Danish Channel): <hartmann> sidst jeg var forbi, var det for at se om Eskil var her
<KimuSan^> ok
<kanikus> han er her ikke lige endnu
<kanikus> jeg skulle faktisk ellers snakke med ham
<KimuSan^> han sover sikkert brændert ud
<hartmann> tjaaa, det har man jo hoert om foer
<kanikus> eller stryger jakkesættet ;)
<KimuSan^> tjaa sådan er det jo med yuppier som ham :o)
<hartmann> jaa eller saetter haaret
<KimuSan^> hehe
<kanikus> jeg...det kan jo være svært med en sådan frisure

(The text basically says that Eskil is a big Yuppie)

Computer are Great....
..... When they work.
Today when I came back after 2 weeks of work in the other end of Denmark, By computer suddently wouldn't start. As the Geek I am I started testing all the things im my computer and found out that it must be my mainboard that has died.
DAMNIT!!....well at least now I have an excuse for buying one of those new 1GHz CPU's and a better mainboard.
I got me a DVD drive today....even for free. It was the CO of the firm I was making a Intranet organizer system for, that gave it to me after I had finished the project yesterday. Nice when people appreciate the work that you make for them, and gives you small bonus' like this one.

ASP is ok.
...If you don't have PHP or perl.
Today I had to work with ASP for the first time since I levt The Windows platform a couple of years ago. I was actually quit efunny to get back to that language after using PHP3/4 and perl for everything you have made for the web.
I'b an old VB programmer (yes I know you can't call yourself a programmer when you write VB code, but anyway), so the ASP code was easy for me to adabt to. My only problem was that I kept putting ; (semikolon) after each line of code I wrote, and I kept trying to use the ++ and += events in my loops for adding 1 to the variable.
Tomorrow I have to go to work even though it's my birthday....And I even have to be there at 07.00AM (YIKES!!!)
hopefully I don't have to be ther too late when it's my birthday, so I can get home to my family and friends who are celibrating me.

Parents are ok
...when they takes kare of you a whole week
Today I left my little 15m^2 room to visit my parents in the other end of the country (it sounds like far away, but in Denmark that only means like 120km). I'm gonna stay there for about a week or so, because I have to work some time in my dads company (making their website turn from static pages to interactive php/asp sites). Besides this it's my birthday on August 8. and most of my family and frinds are coming over to celibrate me. :o) (BTW. im turning 20 this time, so I won't be a freaking teenager anymore).
hopefully I will get a pair of i-glass 3d gogles so I can walk the street watcing movies and surfing the net at the same time - hehe maybe not (those things are still too fuc... expensive in Denmark - and probably the rest of the world).
Well everyone send me a thought on my birthday, so it can turn out as a really great day.
Now theres only one problem! ...I have to get up freaking early for the next week to get to work)

Taking a day off....
.....is not so bad anyway.
Today I had a day 100% off....I have been reading some of Wiliam Gibson's good old books again (like I have done alot of times before). This time I startet reading the book Necromancer, which is it first in his triologi about the Cybercowboy Case. The other two books are Count Zero and Monalisa Overdrive, and both of the are really good too. I just love his writing style, the way he describes this futuristic worldview and the people living there.

Later in the evening I will try to get the trash script for Nautilus ready so it can be testet by the Nautilus guys. Hopefully there won't be to many good movies tonight so I can get some work done.

Sitting down all day....
.....makes me really FAT. Damn this fulltime computerwork makes me fat :o) I just checked my weigth, and found out that I have gaind 20kg. since I startet working fulltime with computers (besides my studies) for about a year ago. maybe I should start doing some sort of sport again...... Naaah thats just wasted time away from the computer :o)
Xchat has bothered med all day... Damn I cant get used to those tabs in sted of MDI + childs. It much esier to have an overview when you have all the channels shown like small windows on the screen......Xchat developers.....read my lips...MAKE IT THAT WAY.

I haven't done much today, besides watching some old movies I found in my mess :o) I just love that old movie Hackers......Not because they are hackers, but because of the way they tries to make a picture of what a mainframe and a hardcore laptop are. and then theres their funny clothes... like an futuristic version of the 80's look.

XML is nice and so is PERL..
.... But not together!
After hours of work with the XML::Parser module for Perl, I gave up, and made my own functions for all the parsing stuff I needed. It actually took me far less time to make these functions than the time i spend on the Parser Module.
Whit these new functions I could finally get some more options done in the Nautilus Console Scripts we are working on at the moment. Hopefully these scripts will get ready to the first official release of Nautilus.
I was also playing around with the newest release of Evolution today. Goddamn the guy who made that Danish tanslations must have been smoking some grass when he did the translations. I had to turn it over to use English again to be able to use the program. Guys! Here's some work to do when you have som spare time left over.
I just saw that the Mozilla team has started to put "embedded" packages in their nightly directories. This means that great projects like Galeon can start working without having to install the whole big package of Mozilla things.
Hopefully they make all of the things more like libs, så that everyone can use them in their own programs i the future.

Life is sweet
....when you have a vacation.
Yep thats right! im having a couple of days of vacation. Hmmm maybe I should take a vacation away from my computer......Naaaa can't live without that thing :o)
Actually it's not a vacation, but rather the need of a new job. I have been working on a big Website/intranet project for a company until now, but it's almost done, and im without a job again (Life of a freelance worker).

Today I was officially added to the Danish Red Hat i18n team (Thanx Dale L.), so now I doesn't have to send all my translation throug Kanikus' mailclient :o)

Being a writer, is a hard work...
.....But I LIKE IT.
I have been fooling around with docbook today. It's a really nice tool, when you are writing documentation or books - Im working on a Danish Introduction book to GNOME together with Kanikus, so this is just what we need.
The first couple of chapters are already written and translated into docbook'ish (for later distribution i different formats).
Hacks
Damn im getting tired of the XML:Parser module for perl.....Perl just isn't made for Object Oriented Programming.
I think im gonna make my own lib with parsing functions for XML/HTML/SGML files, so I can use it in the Nautilus Console Scripts. Can anybody tell me how I can remove a specific line for a text file, just out from the info that a line contains the word foobar?.
when I tries I keeps getting a CR or a space om the line I tried to delete.

IRC channel of the day: #seasonedkernelhackers