Once again, it’s been a while since I blogged so it’s time for the update 
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Coaster
So, I’ve kind of been slacking in this area lately. I finally got multiple row drag and drop implemented (thanks Aaron for your Banshee code which does this) and it works pretty well. Hopefully I can get some bugs worked out and get 0.1.5 release sometime soon.
Work
Over the summer, I was put in charge of my company’s web site which is where most of my time and energy went. Since then, we’ve launched the site and I’ve worked on using XML/XSLT to generate the web site (soon to be put into production) using xsltproc. Another thing I’ve done is set up a little Ubuntu server internally to develop some commonly used “applications” that were “developed” using Excel. The machine I used as the server is an old 233 mhz Pentium II. It’s surprising how fast it runs when it doesn’t have to do graphical functions.
Home
We’re moving! Ok, not that far, but we’re moving to a bigger apartment about 10 minutes away from where we are now. Hopefully the switch of utilities won’t be as bad as someone’s. The cool thing about this apartment is that it’ll have a spare bedroom that I can set up a pseudo-office with all my computer stuff.
Trading Spouses
Watched “Trading Spouses” tonight. It was the second of two and there was a psycho lady on there. Holy cow. On behalf of all Christians that aren’t psycho, I’d like to apologize for this ladies actions. If you get a chance to see the reruns of this episode, make sure you watch it. You’ll get a kick out of it.
I tried out polypaudio a couple of days ago because Ubuntu is aparently switching to it. In general, it seems like a great concept, and I’ve heard great things about it, but I have this one problem: it dies with an assertion on ppc. It only seems to happen on PPC (x86 and amd64 both work fine) and I can’t seem to find a bug reporting tool for the project, so I don’t know where to file bugs upstream. I’d be more than happy to try this sound server out (anything is better than ESD , but I’m afraid I can’t. Please, if this is going to be a replacement for ESD, it has to be programmed with cross-platform use in mind.
Yes, I caught the fever spreading like wildfire… I downloaded and installed Ubuntu. It’s a pretty darn sweet distro with only a few quirks:
1) It comes with pbbuttonsd as the default power manager. I tried it for a few days and found that pmud does a way better job with power management (I got almost 4 hours of battery with pmud and only around 2.5 with pbbuttonsd).
2) Evolution spawns a new spamd process even with the -L parameter given to spamd. This means it take almost a half hour and the processor chugging along to download all the mail I had stored up over the weekend (108 new mails). This makes no sense to me.
3) There are no bakery2.3 or libxml++-2.6 packages which means I had to compile and install them to work on Coaster. Not too big of a deal.
One cool thing I found is that there are Prism2 modules in the kernel Ubuntu provides. Maybe they have been merged in the kernel for a long time and I never noticed them, but that makes me happy. No more compiling linux-wlan-ng each time I get a new kernel. Now, I wonder which version of the prism2 drivers got merged… I hope it’s something pre21 or later.
All in all, this is a pretty slick distro. I put the CD in, hit enter a couple of times and that was it (besides repartitioning my hard drive, which I needed to do for myself… it detected my partitions flawlessly). Good job guys! I can’t wait to see what you have in store for the next release.
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