tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127857382011-04-21T22:20:43.320-07:00derickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875418376442272916noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12785738.post-1126627304529837952005-09-13T08:36:00.000-07:002005-09-13T09:01:44.566-07:00<pre>derick@indigo ~ $ uptime<br />17:39:45 up 62 days, 5:11, 30 users, load average: 0.05, 0.24, 0.32<br /></pre><br />62 days since I booted kernel 2.6.12, which has been a really stable beast. I mean, I press this machine pretty hard. I have about 20 tabs open among two Konquerors at any given time and I just counted 28 tabs in 4 Konsoles. There's usually something compiling in the background. Well, 2.6.13 looks pretty stable on my notebook, so what the heck, I might as well go for it.<br /><br />To be honest, though, X has been acting a little funny lately (at least I think it's X) -- the numeric keypad did weird things this week and today my mouse has been acting semi-paralysed (not sure if it has something to do with <a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/">synergy</a>. So it's probably a good time to restart X. To me that's just as disruptive a process as rebooting (with all the apps I have running, and KDE's session management isn't perfect). So I'll take this opportunity to upgrade my kernel.<br /><br />In other news, I submitted my first <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98675">patch</a> to Gentoo today. Hopefully it gets accepted.<br /><br /><br /><pre>Broadcast message from root (pts/19) (Tue Sep 13 17:59:54 2005):<br /><br />The system is going DOWN for system halt in 1 minute!</pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12785738-112662730452983795?l=p0lard.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>derickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875418376442272916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12785738.post-1126522300888748102005-09-12T03:07:00.000-07:002005-09-12T03:53:54.333-07:00Saturday 10 September was <a href="http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Pretoria">Software Freedom Day</a>. It was a nice, informal event at the <a href="http://www.theinnovationhub.com/contact.cfm">Innovation Hub</a>. The conference room, where most of the activity was, is a pretty awesome venue. Big screen with a nice projector, four plasma screens that allow viewing from pretty much anywhere in the room, cool retractable screens that can be controlled by the touch of a button. Neat.<br /><br />There were talks going on througout the day and an installfest happening in the back of the room. I got to do my talk last and I think it went quite well. I was not nearly as nervous as I had expected (the last time I gave a public talk was probably in 2000). The fact that there were only like 15 people left probably helped, but it was also slightly disappointing that the rest had faded. At least, I think those that were left were anyway the ones who could find most benefit from the Gentoo presentation, because it was rather technical as opposed to the other talks who were mostly philosophical. Which is cool, of course, seeing as it was <span style="font-style:italic;">Software Freedom Day</span>.<br /><br />Thanks to <a href="http://fischer.org.za/">Karl</a> for his hard work in organising SFD. Kudos, dude.<br /><br />As a sort of wrap-up party we went to play Enemy Territory in Karl's office. <a href="http://twiga.deviantart.com/">twiga</a> and I owned... again... but it wasn't quite fair because some of the people hadn't played before or were n00bs.<br /><br />Later that evening we decided to have another go at playing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DotA">DotA</a> on battle.net (our first attempt a few weeks ago failed). Now we thought we were pretty good judging by the DotA games we had played against each other. We reckoned that if we played together we would 0wn. So we played our first online DotA game...<br /><br />...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Total humiliation</span>. Oh my, we sucked. We are such noobs. One of the dudes we played with eventually said, "This is useless, no point in playing," and left. Damn, I felt really bad. It was "educational," in the same sense as getting butt-raped would be educational. We seriously need to improve before playing online again, or find other n00bs to play against.<br /><br />Or maybe I should stick to what I'm good at, like ET.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12785738-112652230088874810?l=p0lard.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>derickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875418376442272916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12785738.post-1126295134881646082005-09-09T12:37:00.000-07:002005-09-09T12:45:34.886-07:00Tomorrow is Software Freedom Day, and I'm giving a presentation about Gentoo Linux ("Gentoo Maintenance with Portage"). I was hoping to upload the slides to this blog but it seems you need to host pretty much everything somewhere else (even your avatar :/). Well, I should actually put the slides on the TLUG website but I thought I'd be lazy and try my blog, seeing as it's a lot easier to make changes :). Well, with all the exciting changes happening with TLUG, the website should be migrated to mediawiki soon so then it'll be a snap to make changes. I can't wait.<br /><br />OK, back to preparing for tomorrow...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12785738-112629513488164608?l=p0lard.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>derickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875418376442272916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12785738.post-1115728998856352212005-05-10T05:43:00.000-07:002005-05-10T05:43:18.856-07:00The porting to Qt 4 has finally begun. The kde-cvs mailing list is starting to DoS my inbox again ;)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12785738-111572899885635221?l=p0lard.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>derickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875418376442272916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12785738.post-1115714435904171672005-05-10T01:39:00.000-07:002005-05-10T01:40:35.906-07:00asdf asdf<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12785738-111571443590417167?l=p0lard.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>derickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13875418376442272916noreply@blogger.com0