Present Perfect

Dave/Dina

Spent last week reworking my set of anaconda patches for Dave/Dina going from Red Hat 7.3 to Red Hat 9, then touching up the other bits. It's a lot less painful now that I use quilt. ncm, it was me who plugged it here. If you were looking for the site, it's at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/

Anyway, Thursday night the unthinkable happened. After a quick reboot of my main machine it failed to boot up. And this was just as I was about to go to sleep. Blind panic ensued. Started swapping out components, and it seems the Matrox G400 has died. A bit of a pain, since this really still is the best card to do TV/OUT with.

I went and collected my friend's Dave/Dina box, swapped out the cards, compared with another spare one I had, and so on, until it worked. The three cards are all different in board layout, interestingly enough. They also all get detected by kudzu differently, but get the same name. Strange.

Anyway, it's probably time to move to DirectFB on newer matrox cards and start experimenting. But Friday was a huge waste of time trying to get things to work again, just as I was pretty much finished with setting up the whole Dave/Dina install tree.

So all I have to show for last week is this screenshot. Hope to do better this week.

Work

Still enjoying being unemployed. On the other hand, looking forward to my new job more and more. It's funny how I really don't miss my old job. I miss some of the people sometimes, but I made the right decision overall. Next week I'm going to Barcelona for a whole week to hunt for an apartment. Rent is pretty expensive there by European standards, but I hope to find something for the two of us that's under 800 euro.

Will also bring my new rollerblades to go out skating with Matthias.

Meanwhile, my new boss already ordered my new laptop. Things are going well, I feel taken care of.

Music

Had an interesting Sunday accompanying my girlfriend. There was this pop festival where she had to do interviews. So I got to meet Liberty-X (I've always thought Jessica looked yummy, and she does :) ) and Melanie C. Mel had her leg in a cast, and she was at least a head smaller than me. She's actually very petite in real life.

I'm not really starstruck at this sort of thing since it's not my kind of music. Meeting people like Thom Yorke or Thurston Moore or Greg Dulli in the past was a lot more awe-inspiring. But it's weird how on the one hand some people really act superhyper when meeting "famous" people, and on the other hand those "famous" people seem to be very down-to-earth and friendly.

For the guys who care: Mel C is taken, and she seemed to be very much in love with her pretty hunky guy.

Dave/Dina Spent last week reworking my set of anaconda patches for Dave/Dina going from Red Hat 7.3 to Red Hat 9, then touching up the other bits. It's a lot...