Postings by Mathias in July 2008
Changelogs and Fortune Cookies
Nasrudin walked into a teahouse and declaimed, "The moon is more useful than the sun."
"Why?", he was asked.
"Because at night we need the light more."
Regularly applaud myself for changing my prepare-changelog script to yield a random fortune cookie with each changelog entry:
`/usr/games/fortune -s wisdom`
Quite entertaining.
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GNOME makes happy people
GNOME is fun. Proof below:
Project specific editor settings
Everyone knows the problem that seemingly each project uses its own code style. So here is my solution for that problem:
$ cat ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim
if filereadable('.project.vim')
source .project.vim
else
set sw=2 sta et
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29 years and still immature...
g++ just gave me this error message right now:
./JavaScriptCore/kjs/ArgList.h:133: error: extra qualification 'KJS::ArgList::' on member 'operator new'
Would be nice if this language (or its compilers) would have matured that much, that you don't always need exactly the same C++ compiler as the guy writing the code you try to compile. It was just 29 years ...
Tanith Group on last.fm
So Rhythmbox got this rudimentary last.fm plugin some time ago, and I always wondered what last.fm is good for. Until today, when I got bored by my old Tanith DJ sets and searched for that guy on lastfm.com. Seems like the Tanith group produces some nice web radio for me...
Back from Istanbul
Back from Istanbul. Wow, what an experience. What a vibrant city, thirsty for life! I still have short flashbacks blending memories from Istanbul into my consciousness. Strange experience. Obviously a sign for how much I enjoyed my time there. Quite a mistake to not convince Ulrike to join me for that trip. Awesome how happy Marc-André was when having me back. For ...
Karl, calm down!
Karl, calm down please! Well, and don't spread lies!
As you can check yourself in our SVN repository, Zeeshan never has been removed from Planet GNOME. Recent changes to the configuration file all were additions. There is no single removal in the log for the last few weeks!
I really start to worry about all the hateress recently seen on Planet GNOME. I am guilty by ...
