Vipe is back online

Vipe returned online this morning. After logging in, I discovered that some of my mail folders had bootloads of messages which I had to delete, and that the mail bounces caused the Mailman-based mailing lists to make me in "no mail" mode. So I had to cover them and change it back.

In any case, without vipe I felt that I was missing a rib, and am very happy that it's back online.

Getting MikMod to Play using Artsd

I wrestled a bit trying to find a solution to get the command line mikmod player to play using Artsd. I believed this was the case in Knoppix, but then discovered it plays there using OSS. After contemplating coding a libmikmod driver for Arts, I found an easier hackish solution:

artsdsp /usr/bin/mikmod -d 2

Smile! You're on camera!

Hacktivity

I advanced a little in the Hebrew translation of ESR's "Homesteading the Noosphere". Other than that, after vipe returned, I've been looking at Subversion Issue 854. The instructions there for reproducing the bug worked flawlessly on my computer. So I closed the bug, and sent in a patch for a regression test.

Reading

I read a chapter or two from "The House of Arden". I also covered some chapters from "Apache: the Definitive Guide". Some of the later chapters were interesting but as a whole the book is quite disappointing.

Finally, I finished "The Art of Unix Programming". Now I'm looking for something else to read online.