I just upgraded my box at work to Haven, here is a short post to mention two links:

• ATM you need to manually upgrade nvidia-173xx if you have it installed (after -Syu) due to lack of xorg-server-1.8 support.
• I needed this xorg config tweak to get my up arrow working again.

Other than that, I removed my xorg.conf and instead I put this to the xorg.conf.d dir. I also added "nouveau.modeset=0" to /boot/grub/menu.lst.

What else.. ah yes, I needed to change the keyboard model to evdev in the KDE System Settings.

Other than that, it went fine. :)

Update: the nvidia-173xx part is now fixed in both current and stable.

In case you got bored and you want to try something blending edge, have a look at my ooo33 repo.

It contains an early snapshot of OpenOffice.org 3.3 (+ ooo-build patches, of course), including this work.

I recently tested two new Frugalware packages.

googlecl is a commandline utility, I wanted to try it out as it has browser-based authentication, which is supposed to be compatible with Google Apps, while the API-based method used by picu is not. To make it short, in case you are in a directory containing photos for an album and you just want to upload all of them to an album named after the directory name, you need:

google picasa create --title $(basename $(pwd)) *.jpg

The other package I recently tested is geeqie, it's a replacement (see history here) for gqview I usually use to watch a lot of photos in a directory. And yes, they seem not to break any of the nice feature of the old gqview project, good work! ;)

Update: there is a patch to add sync support, it's usage:

google picasa post --title $(basename $(pwd)) --sync *.jpg

Yesterday I finally had a look at how chkdep removes duplicated dependencies. The whole idea behind the removal is that in case ldd says a package depends on libfoo and libbar + we know from pacman that libfoo already depends on libbar, then there is no point adding libbar to depends in most cases.

The old code did the followings: it searched the depends of the packages found by ldd and in case a depend was found in the depend list of an other depend then it removed the depend from the list. The problem with this is that in case foo depends on bar depends baz and ldd finds foo and baz only, then baz won't be removed.

The new code does the same but depends are detected recursively to avoid the problem mentioned above.

As a result, makepkg -a output should be less noisy. ;)

Did you ever notice the CSS Validator does not support HTTPS? I sent two patches (ant dependencies fix, SSL Host verifier fix) to its devel list a while ago and they are now in CVS, hopefully they will soon upgrade their service as well. :)

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:46:38PM +0000, socghop.noreply@gmail.com wrote: > Dear Miklos, > > > Congratulations! Your proposal "Improve RTF Export" as submitted to "Go > OpenOffice" has been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2010. Over the next > few days, we will add you to the private Google Summer of Code Student > Discussion List. Over the next few weeks, we will send instructions to this > list regarding turn in proof of enrollment, tax forms, etc. > > Now that you've been accepted, please take the opportunity to speak with > your mentors about plans for the Community Bonding Period: what > documentation should you be reading, what version control system will you > need to set up, etc., before start of coding begins on May 24th. > > Welcome to Google Summer of Code 2010! We look forward to having you with > us. > > > With best regards, > The Google Summer of Code Program Administration Team

Time to say bye-bye to adsl!

The optical fiber is now only 260 meters away and that means it's possible to order vDSL here.

That means that means that the average download speed is now about 14MBit/s while it was about 5MBit/s with adsl. :)

Completely unrelated: if you use ps2pdf and the margins a screwed up, don't forget to give -sPAPERSIZE=a4 a try.

So after I upgraded to Linux-2.6.33 my wifi card stopped working after resume. I way lazy and I had no time to bisect it, so I just ignored the problem for a while, then today I looked up the lkml thread and bingo, an easy workaround is there. ;)

\o/

• ooo-build: two fixes for the configure script (perl, rsync)
• the irssi script that renames facebook "u$bigint" nicks to real names based on whois info stripped chars with accents. a oneliner patch makes it possible not to drop chars with accents, just convert them to ascii.
• The dazuko m8r merged my Linux-2.6.33 patch. \o/

The rest of this entry is not about programming in fact - I upgraded a machine at work from Frugalware-1.1 to 1.2 and I though it may worth noting a few interesting facts:

• The attitude of this bug is like the famous glibc one. In short: kde3 supported having the same wallpaper on two screens by automatically splitting it up - now looks like kde4 does not. I ended up splitting the wall up using GIMP as well. :P
• kookaa is not really ported yet to kde4 so I needed to switch to kolourpaint.
• While upgrading cups, I hit this bug as well. (Notice how Ubuntu calls bugs "answers". ;) )

$ while :; do date -R; sleep 1; done Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:59:59 +0100 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:00:00 +0200 ^C