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GCC 4.5 unmasking and etc.
I was hoping to get GCC 4.5 unmasked much sooner than this, but I somehow got wrangled into running the field end of a big survey project at work and as a result I've been pretty much living out of a motel since mid-August. The good news is that thanks to the efforts of many very helpful people who aren't me, the last major packages that needed ( Read more... ) -
underworld - between stars
I drive too fast ( Read more... ) -
Humble Indie Bundle - support linux gaming
Just 21 hours left to get the Humble Indie Bundle. Five great games, name your price. Support linux gaming today!
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another semester down
Ah, wrote my last final in Terrain Analysis this morning. This ends a week-long string of all-nighters, except last night where my body gave in and i had to get five hours of sleep (i'm getting old), meaning i didn't have time to go over control monumentation for photogrammetry, and guess what 50% of the test turned out to be on. Anyways, i'm too ( Read more... ) -
the importance of test suites
(this isn't directed at any one person or group or any recent incident, this ( Read more... ) -
wxGTK-2.9 progress
Support for wxGTK 2.9 is now in the tree in eclass and eselect form. There isn't an ebuild ready for the tree yet as I'm waiting for 2.9.1 which will unify the release and debug libraries into one. There is a live svn ebuild in my dev overlay if anyone wants to try it out. It's unfinished - i still need to add support for the contrib libraries, ( Read more... ) -
Machinarium on 64bit Gentoo Linux
I had to spend a few hours trying to get Machinarium(flash required) running on my laptop the other night. Turns out the solution was too easy:
# USE=32bit emerge -av www-plugins/adobe-flash
Damn.
PS. if you like old-school adventure games, puzzles, or desolate post-apocalyptic cityscapes populated by melancholy anthropomorphized robots (yay), you ( Read more... ) -
broken libgomp.la in recent GCC upgrades (aka "my imagemagick's broken")
Yeah, this bug is back again. Turns out the code that fixes the paths in gcc's own .la files was broken on new version installs. This means that everyone in stable that updated to gcc-4.3.4 and anyone in unstable that updated to 4.4.2 in the last week or so should resync their portage tree and rebuild gcc now.
See https://bugs.gentoo.org/283761 ( Read more... ) -
The Tragically Hip - Skeleton Park
in Skeleton Park, one fine summer evening
the sun teased the dark like the last strawberry
I could hear 'em on the breeze, hear 'em moving through the trees
the ghosts of the Rideau Canal start to sing ( Read more... ) -
The Hip in S'toon
a) just saw the almighty Hip in Saskatoon. best concert ever.
b) drove four hours home on Saskatchewan "highways" in the middle of the night, having to watch the road for wildlife the entire time (had to slam on the brakes for 3 deer, 5 raccoons, 2 badgers, a cat, and a pillow (?!)), with a hangover. worst headache ever.
still worth it.
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