Present Perfect

Been busy with lots of stuff recently.

This weekend, I'm doing some work on GStreamer. If you don't know it, check it out, for some of you it will be the future. Anyway, it's been quite some time since a last release, so some of us decided to just get ready and do it.

So I've been fixing build issues all over the place, while two of us are trying to make RPM's as well, and we're pretty close to being ready.

As for Dave/Dina, I got this little infra-red receiver add-on for my Asus A7V motherboard. I can't get the thing to work. It's really confusing : what modules should I be using for it anyway ? I hope I can get LIRC to work on it because using a remote will be the best thing.

At work, "marketing" asked me if they could send a html page to a thousand people. *sigh* I told them if they knew how you send a html page with images in the first place, without using Frontpage. One guy's suggestion was to send the page as HTML and make all the IMG tags point to our webserver.

"So what happens when the people reading their mail are not on-line, when they popped their mail ?" Yeah, that sounded like a problem to him.

So I sighed and decided to do it anyway because if I let it lie it's gonna blow up in my face later on. So I spent an hour or two writing a simple perl script that takes a web page with images in a directory and spits out one html page with uuencoded inline images. Then another few hours to set up mailman and off it goes.

The new laptop works fine. I made an rpm for the toshutils package and sent the spec file to the author. That's open source for you.

Been busy with lots of stuff recently. This weekend, I'm doing some work on GStreamer. If you don't know it, check it out, for some of you it will be...