Present Perfect

Advogato

Hm, having a hard time trying to find out how low pfremy's diary is getting rated for me. It's less than 3, which seems pretty appropriate considering his latest entry. But now that someone pointed me to his pointless drivel (one entry in four months and he still doesn't have interesting to say besides making predictably disparaging comments at GNOME), I can't seem to figure out what score he has and why advogato's rating system happens to be working so well.

As for pfremy, I wonder if he realizes how much he hurts the KDE project by making stupid comments like this. Any sensible person who is undecided on the issue will not be swayed by his potshots to try KDE over GNOME. I might even think it would convince them away from it.

As for all you people, just try both GNOME and KDE, and give them both a fair chance. Then make a decision. Don't listen to me or pfremy, or anyone else for that matter, unless you know and trust those people.

Advogato Hm, having a hard time trying to find out how low pfremy's diary is getting rated for me. It's less than 3, which seems pretty appropriate considering his latest...

Barcelona

Down here for a day, Barcelona is great. Yesterday evening we met up with Nat and Miguel in some swanky restaurant down by the sea. We're still not sure who paid for dinner, we hope it was Novell. Anyways, Nat's a lot of fun to hang out with; he's always all over the place, stealing stuff from everywhere and everyone, and moving from big corporate guy to little kid in mere seconds.

I was impressed as well at how my girlfriend Kristien had no problems getting to talk to both him and Miguel, and all the other people there. I realize I have something special here.

Getting the word on all the industry gossip is fun too. There's going to be some exciting times ahead, and I'm glad to be some small part of it.

Interesting side note: neither of these two bigwigs had any clue that GNOME 2.4 was going to be released the next day. Go figure ! A surer sign of sellout has yet to be found, the corporate whores :)

On a side note, congratulations to all the rocking GNOME hackers for making my life better one byte at a time !

Dreaming

I've always wondered what part of the brain projects the dreams we get at night. Last night was particularly weird. I was dreaming I was at some sort of conference, and Nat and Miguel were speaking. And I was sitting somewhere out on the cement, and some other Ximian guys I had never seen were arriving. One was on a skateboard, and as he drove past, he was high-fiving all the other fanboys there, and he was just about to pass by me, and I reach out to high-five him. That's when I woke up because the motion of actually high-fiving him brought my head in direct contact with the monitor on the side of the bed, ouch.

I swear, I don't get what part of the brain decides to actually take an action in real life, outside of the dream, that you are doing in the dream as well. I think the people around me should be well scared if I did everything in reality as well as I do in my dreams.

GStreamer

So, the contestants are arriving and we have a definite list: Uraeus, David Schleef (just got here after the cab ride from hell), Ronald (getting from the train as we speak), Benjamin (coming in tomorrow), me and Julien.

I'm really wondering how well we will fare this time. Too bad neither Erik nor Wim are here.

Barcelona Down here for a day, Barcelona is great. Yesterday evening we met up with Nat and Miguel in some swanky restaurant down by the sea. We're still not sure...

mach

This weekend I decided to fix all outstanding issues that were bothering me, then push out a release. It's been a long time coming. With the Red Hat Linux Project being baptised, Fedora starting to grow, and my need to work on Dave/Dina soon, I want this out and tested.

I asked in the fedora channel if anyone wanted to test the latest prerelease, and Jeff, rpm's author, took a stab at it. He threw some bits at it, causing some small issues, but nothing big enough not to release. It seems he thought it was useful, which is good to know. Of course, he was trying to get me to use his mkrpm script which puts contents of .src.rpm's in CVS repositories. I did, seems to work fine as well, and I need to unload all my Fedora specs anyway.

So, after some twiddling, shaving, and polishing, the first python-based mach version is out. Get it.

Non-work

Being unemployed, I'm doing all the things I was hoping I would do. Enjoying Dark Angel on the PlayStation2 immensely. Cleaning up bits of my room, finances, and life all over. Inviting friends to do stuff. Getting crazy ideas all the time. Calling up random people because I'm at home alone :)

I've made a big TODO-list, and it's already scaring the hell out of me. I'm getting performance anxiety, so I'll just have to tackle each issue one by one and get moving.

TV

Yikes ! Two months and all we get is crap, and now they throw all the good stuff at me. New episodes of Buffy, Dawson's Creek (yeah yeah, save your comments), 24, and my all-time favourite series, "Buiten De Zone" (in Dutch) is on too ! Dave/Dina is primed and ready to record everything to CD.

Dina

So, it's been two years since I started The Dave/Dina Project, which I'm going to pick up again soon and do a CD release of.

I still remember how the name just came to me out of nowhere, and finding it perfect for the project and for my personal desires to Have Good Names. Dina was then Belgium's candidate for the Miss World Elections, and here was a miss who wasn't stuck-up and had some form of natural beauty other contestants always seem to lack.

Searches in Google for her name turned up our project fairly high consistently over the past few years, so she's bound to have seen the site at some point.

Today, I get a call from my ex-collague: "You'll never guess who's here today." Well, I did guess correctly :) So I asked him to get me an autograph and a few sound bytes I could use for the project, and he did. Why did I quit that job again ? I spent two years waiting for her to pay us a visit; I'm not even completely done there yet and she's there when I'm not.

Anyways, all interesting stories to tell the grandkids in fifty years. And she had, in fact, seen the site, and wondered what it was about. Need to do something about the online documentation ...

Barcelona

Yay, holiday ! Off to see my girlfriend who's there already since last week. GStreamer meeting at the end of the week, too, and some of the Ximian guys are in town there too because of the Novell European thing. Looking forward to whatever is going to happen immensely.

Don't tell me I misspelt something, it was too appropriate.

hadess

I'll let you sleep. Come here, big guy ! ***snore***

mach This weekend I decided to fix all outstanding issues that were bothering me, then push out a release. It's been a long time coming. With the Red Hat Linux...

Museic

Muse was in the country to showcase their new album to a select crowd of 500 lucky winners. We got wind of it, so we snuck in through the kitchen door, put on our chef uniforms, added some hot chili pepper powder to the main course and snuck into the concert room.

Matt was squealing like a pig in the slaughter, contorting his body all through the set and making faces, torturing his guitar, and so on. He left after 50 minutes to relieve himself, then came back for a few jukebox encore songs. I feel our culinary intervention gave a sense of urgency to the show that would otherwise have been sorely lacking.

Afterwards, we put on our overalls and snuck up to the engine room where I had worked before. We made off with the second copy video tape and threw it on the net somewhere.

Redundancy

Being jobless is exciting and frightening at the same time. I have so much stuff I want to take a swipe at I'm unable to start with one thing at the moment. I'm still too much all over the place and need to just work through my TODO list one by one.

Barcelona

So, Nat the nut is in Barcelona already. He thought I'd be there already too. Sadly my ticket is for Monday, getting a new one is very expensive and I'm still sick as a dog. If I feel a bit better tomorrow I just might take off anyway, I miss my girlfriend too, and she's having a good time over there as well.

Silly me, now that I have time to do crazy stuff I'm not doing it.

Museic Muse was in the country to showcase their new album to a select crowd of 500 lucky winners. We got wind of it, so we snuck in through the...

Postfix

Ran into an interesting problem today. I started using my mail server's Spamassassin setup, and it filters out all the mails sent by me as spam. Looking into it, I noticed this was due to our home setup. It's a simple enough setup which I want to install at a lot of other people's location: friends, family, small businesses, and so on.

The premise is pretty simple. My laptop at home has postfix set up to relay mail to 192.168.1.1, which is the house server. That server has postfix set up to relay mail to the ISP's smtp host. This works fine; I can send mail from my machine without any problems.

Only, the headers of course contain both my laptop's and my server's Received From: entries. This causes it to get spamming points for being a dynamic IP host.

I think this would be solved in a very simple way by getting the server to act as if it's sending mail itself directly to my ISP's smtp host. In effect, postfix on the server would re-send the mails to the right smtp host instead of relaying the mail.

I've digged through lots of dejanews/google groups, and didn't really find anything that could help me. The problem is also that I don't know what to look for exactly using search terms. So, if anyone knows some mail agent theory: what technique can I use to get a mail server to re-send instead of acting as a relay for internal hosts ?.

I'm assuming this would be a built-in feature, or some feature achieved by rewriting headers before it gets sent out. All clues are welcome !

Postfix Ran into an interesting problem today. I started using my mail server's Spamassassin setup, and it filters out all the mails sent by me as spam. Looking into it,...