Pretty fun and humorous stick figure RPG type game that gives you 40 turns a day, just enough to allow you to zone out for a little bit at work or while hard at work on your emerge -auDv world. Come see it at Kingdom of Loathing .com
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I want software patents globally because the very first second we get them, I intend on patenting idiocy, annoying redunancy, off-topicness, generating 1000 e-mails on something that should have taken just 1, and finally, twisting people’s words to fit your own agenda to perpetuate the 1000 e-mail rush on mailing lists.
When that is said and done and I have my shiny new patent in hand I will finally be able to get rid of the cruft of -core because I will start tossing out lawsuits like they were candy.
That being said, some of my other patents will include prefixing every damn thing with GNU/ so we can put RMS out of business.
So please, call your local representative, it doesn’t matter what he or she represents you in, just call them and tell them that you want software patents today!
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So some cool new things are happening in the world of Gnome & Volume management. All developments are happening on the HAL and better integration support. As some might know I work on the Gentopia overlay with some other Gentoo developers and work like this is our prime integrating example.
First for all our iPod fans, fejj has managed to integrate iPod support directly into Gnome using Sonance, a C# GStreamer based media player.
Next are some patches to gnome-vfs2 to use libhal add/del messages rather then /etc/fstab entries to generate drive and volume entries. This now means more code is free of the shackles of fstab-sync, the devil program that is going away. There’s also the ability to show a drive even when there is no media in the drive. And the last two are by far the most important. Allows specific mount/umount/eject programs for handling of different media/HAL types. Which will clearly allow for the ability to lockdown pluggable media types properly and securely and remove the necessity of fstab entries since we could be prompted where to mount or use gconf keys. Also properly detailed and descriptive mount/umount error messages and proper handling of when applications hold files on a mounted device. And since I’ve mentioned gconf keys, the last thing was gconf keys to specify all sorts of settings like “Require Admin Password to Mount” with dialog boxes coming up. And even specifying which drives are visible and which aren’t. More details over at the Utopia Mailing List or David Zeuthen’s blog.
Hot on the heals, Robert Love released gnome-volume-manager 1.3.2 to support some of these enhancements.
All this and more coming to a local Gentopia overlay near you.
So I’m sure a lot of you have seen Beagle connected with Gnome. It’s available for Gentoo via Gentopia.
Except the only problem I have is I keep my developer’s CVS checkout of Gentoo’s tree in my home directory. That leaves a whole lot of files in my home directory. Currently my beagled process gets the following errors after a while “ioctl: No space left on device” and dies. Beagle addresses this problem on their Troubleshooting page. I’ve increased the size to over 100,000 just to be safe but the thing is I used beagle-config to ignore ~/workspace/gentoo-x86 which does happen, only when I increase the value to high enough to handle the CVS checkout. Which seems stupid that I’d have to increase this size up to that high just to get it to run and then it ignores it. I can verify by running beagled in the foreground and have watched it ignore all those files. It shouldn’t need the limit of watched directories to be increased when it’s ignoring them. It in fact should never use it, but apparently it does.
But just removing Gentoo’s CVS from my home didn’t make the issue go away. My other projects have too many files apparently so I had to increase the level to 16384 and keep it that way. I created a simple patch to my kernels so I don’t need to have an “echo” in my local startup. inotify_beagle_watches.patch and can be seen at bug #97568. I found another user of beagle that needed this increase, maybe I can convince Robert Love to make the change permanent.
Anyone else do the nerdy thing of collecting the 50 state quarters? If so, how’s it going? I forget about it sometimes and then suddenly remember and toss some of the new quarters in a section of my desk until I pull out the books I have that hold the quarters and try to fill in what I’m missing. If I have them, back in the loose change pile. So far, here’s what I’m missing.
Here’s a schedule I found from the US Mint.
Anyway, just random curiosity.
As a side note, isn’t the US Mint a tad bit pushy?
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