8 pmish

Just downloaded the latest KDE2beta and am posting this entry with Konquerer.
I gotta say, I'm quite impressed!! Very neat! Also took a quick look at KWord and KSpread and both do look nice, too.
If you want to download the latest and can't find a mirror, here's the one I just downloaded everything from:
ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde/.

Looks like the guys from KDE are doing some nice stuff!


Other than that not much happening.


gtaylor writes:

mrorganic wrote:

...this means that lots of the packet monkeys only want to work on high-profile, high-visibility stuff. Boring
things like debugging, regression testing, and documentation languish because they don't "pay" as well.

I beg to differ. The free software documentation community has a great many contributors. Excellent documentation
contributions to free software are every bit as valuable as code; even Advogato's web of merit recognizes this. Free
software tends to be debugged by users (for better or worse), and tends to have rather less regression testing, except
for critical apps where it's worth the effort to construct a test suite (gcc, Perl, etc come to mind). That this is different
from other software development models is unimportant; it works for us, so that's the way it is.

I think you misunderstood something there. I thoughtmrorganic was referring to
the "real" world, ie a working place. And I think it's true that in a company people tend to behave just as mrorganic described.


Anyway, gotta order Burritos now and watch a movie.

This entry was written with Konquerer ;-)

11 am
Sunday, hmm? No, wait a minute - it's
Monday. OK... Monday, hmm?


Nothing happened - did some coding on
Pan and
KUnit
yesterday. Read some of the paper. My girlfirend cooked
Gnocci with Pesto and a pretty darn yummie Lemon-Tarte. I
think I'm doing quite well with her ;-)



tetron
wants an <include> tag, that let you include bits
of HTML
from other documents into your own, just like you can inline
offsite images.


jmason
suggests the IFRAME tag, but IIRC this only works for IE,
right? Well, you could then have a javascript to detect
which client you have and either use IFRAME or the LAYER tag
(which is only supported by NS, but which also can embed
foreign src-documents). But this means, once again, that
you're only coding for the two big browsers, which sucks.


nixnut
suggests xlink and
xpointer - but that's more XML than HTML,
right?
Maybe you could do something like that via
server-side includes, somehow...


I'm once again puzzled by how anal people in the
German newsgroups are. As soon as one person posts a
question in, say, de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc, without giving
his/her real name and real email-address, (s)he won't even
get an answer, but instead get twenty replies yelling at
him/her "Tell us your real name!!" How retarded - who the
fuck cares what's that persons real name is?

Some people even ignore/insult people who use an
"anonymous" email-account such as "foo@gmx.de" or
"bar@hotmail.com" or even "baz@my-deja.com".

Another thing people get pissed off about is, believe it
or not, if you sig is not separated by "-- " but by
"--".
I know, I know, netiquette are important and all,
and if they would just simply answer the questions and then
give a friendly hint, that'd be ok, but most people are just
being a pain in the ass.

Also, everything that's only slightly OT will be
fup2poster'd immediately.


Yeah, so why do I bother? Dunno - it's fun to read,
often quite helpful.


Shit this entry is too long alrady - I never can
have a short entry. Maybe later...

1 pm
Glad to see Advogat working again - all
morning it seemed to have been down. Made me realize how
much time I spent here reading other people's diaries
etc.
Weird this voyeurism, reading about other people's
lifes...


Saw
What
lies beneath - it was surprisingly enjoyable. While the
first half was just predictable, I realized at some point in
the second half (which wasn't any less predictable to be
honest) that I was actually quite well
entertained.

So I see that
Zooko's
Mojo Nation has been
slashdotted - which reminds me of
that
article over at
freshmeat, which points
out the irony that a page, as it's being copied to more and
more computers actually becomes harder to access.


Nothing else is new - my shower gel still looks like
cum. Makes me feel weird when I slab it all over my body.
Disturbing.


Plan for today: do what I do every day, plus try to
do someof the things you *want* to do every day and never
get to b/c you're wasting your days in front of the
computer. Gotta go and do some shopping, too...


Oh, and spray for roaches. No actually, spray
against roaches - and put out traps. Those bastards
come
back after a couple of months no matter what you do.

Been busy coding on
Pan. Went out
and had a frappuccino from Starbucks - those things rock.


Just like
sej, I would
also like to see a feature to reply to diary-entries. I
know,
rillian
pointed out you can link directly to any diary entry, but
what I had in mind would be more like this:

On the bottom of every diary-entry is a little link
"Reply". You click it, it brings you to your diary, you
write something in your diary and when you post it, you will
have a small link "reply to foo" on top of your diary entry,
while "foo" has a small "reply from bar" link under his/her
diary entry. If there is a big discussion going on, it would
looks maybe like:

Date
Reply to
foo

What you
say, foo, is right, however, I think that
blahblahblah

Reply to this



Reply to bar

You rule, bar, I totally agree!

Reply to this


here goes the original entry which might be quite lengthy or
short or whatever.
Reply from baz

Replay from qux


Reply to this

Or something in this manner...
I know this can get
cluttered and complicated, but this is just a draft.
Threaded would probably be better...

11 am

Ha, up earlier than the last few days. What is today?
Saturday? Doesn't make a difference to me...


So yesterday I finished the commandline argument
handling for
KUnit. Took
me while until I finally found XParseGeometry in
Xlib.h, which saved me a lot of messing around with
argv[2], trying to split it into the appropriate
numbers/strings. I haven't made a release yet - these
command-line arguments don't deserve a release on their own.
This will be part of Version 0.5, I guess.


I also corrected the code for quoted-printable
decoding in
Pan, there was
still a bug. I wish we could have done this in
Perl:

sub decode_qp ($) {
    my $res = shift;
    $res =~ s/[ \t]+?(\r?\n)/$1/g;  
    $res =~ s/=\r?\n//g;             
    $res =~ s/=([\da-fA-F]{2})/pack("C", hex($1))/ge;
    $res;
}

7 lines!! I blew it up to something like 20 in C.

Anyway, there's lots of thing to do with
Pan, so I might
work on that today, too.


Lateron I went out and bought Basil-, Parseley- and
Tomatoe-seeds. I'm on my way to become a real farmer!
;-)
Oh, and I bought a small cactus and named him Fred.
Exciting.


Went out for the worlds best Sushi (conveniently
located right around the corner). If anybody of you is into
Sushi, go to "Sandobe" on 11th Street between 1st and 2nd
Ave in Manhattan - it's cheap and the fish is the best. The
restaurant is tiny, so if it's crowded, don't worry. You can
go to "Jaellado"'s on 4th Street between 1st and 2nd - same
owner, same fish, bigger restaurant. Yum!

Watched
La Historia
oficial lateron - quite interesting.
There was a
preview for Kafka's
The Trial, which
I want to see one of these days, too.


Too bad
matt decided
not to post his thoughts on "Abused trust? " - I
thought it would make for a pretty good discussion. I myself
am not sure if I deserver to be a Journeyer. Of course I'm
flattered and all, but following the
guidelines I'd
be probably in between Apprentice and Journeyer somewhere?


What else? I found out that
Blacky's
in love with
nymia.
;-)
So who's going to be the first Advogato-married
couple??


And you all probably know already that
Napster's
still alive.


Enough rambling - let's get something done.


The INS sucks(tm).