human crisis? I don't get people

• I don't get it why people refuse to read NEWS and UPDATING files and instead start randomly deleting files and directories on their disk.


• I don't get it why people refuse to read NEWS and UPDATING and waste hours of their time compiling and recompiling applications and libraries.


• I don't get it why people refuse to read NEWS and UPDATING and mess up their system by randomly moving and copying files around


• I don't get people who scream for recipes can't follow them. And instead of looking at the error messages chaotically copy, delete and move files around. Where the solution is to just follow the recipe.


• I don't get people with the habbit not to think and instead randomly doing chaotic stuff messing up things completely. It just feels wrong if you need to cd tmp/work/foo. Don't do that until you know what you do...

I should switch to sociology to understand people better...

RSS Reader updates

I'm still happy with libmrss as it allows me to completely focus on the representation and management of the data. Today I finally found the time to work on the application again and progressed nicely. My RSS RFC822 date parser was finished, I looked into check the unit testing framework and wrote unit tests for my parser. I added check to the build process, fixed the internationalisation of the reader and made use of the GtkTreeModelSort to allow sorting by Subject and now by time. The time sorting uses my RFC822 date class.

Yesterday I found lcov which means I can throw my own tools to generate these information away and instead improve the perl based tools where needed.
Looking at one of my blackbox unit-tests I recognize how fragile it is. Don't ever run make check on a day switch as this violates the invariant of the check.

Hopefully GtkTreeModelFilter will be used by tomorrow. I hope to find at least some spare minutes to look into it.

good night, happy easter, I'm tired...
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OpenGL videos

As promised check http://www.openembedded.org/~zecke/opengl/ for my first compiz and OpenGL expierence. This simple plugin gets the texture of one of the active top level windows and either draws it on a cube or draws many many rotating and scaled rectangles using this texture. The ambilight effect is due me not unbinging the texture after I'm done drawing.
I really can't wait untl OpenGL ES gets common on mobile devices.

PS: Mallum I think I have found video-cube.c code in one of the OpenGL tutorials on the net. :)

Blogs as Open TodoList?!

Things to do

• Take more tests/exams...


• Make sugar run on Feisty and use exmap and massif to compare the WebKit/Qt to Mozilla. Somehow only the sample/test app is working and the webactivity is not. I really need to do this and ping danimo and send a mail to laptop.org


• Setup automatic builds and coverage generation for KDE. But KDE4 on FreeBSD needs some work


• Find some more time to spend on dolphin


• Finish the new BitBake parser


• Finish my tinderbox efforts


• Much more... :)