Bloggy

Well, the air conditioning is working a little better now. Turns out it wasn’t so much the air conditioning that was broken as the adjuster switch, which seems to be telling the air conditioning unit, “Yes, I love living in a sauna, so please tone down the cold.”

The repairman is currently out looking for a replacement switch, but until then he has managed to convince the air conditioning that our climate is closer to North Carolina’s than the North Pole, so it’s now a little cooler in here.

In JuK-related news, I was trying earlier today to make an output backend for gstreamer-0.8, even though the KDE bindings haven’t been updated.

…

OK, you can quit laughing at me now. Unfortunately, I don’t think that the JuK will get gstreamer-0.8 support for KDE 3.3, because I’m sure as hell not going to do gstreamer’s job of picking a reasonable output sink. (And don’t tell me about autoplug, I already know about it.)

Posted by mpyne under Uncategorized | No Comments »

Aaron, you can have your floaty head when you make one, like I did. It took me about an hour and a half, taking the picture with the right pose, cropping out the head just so, clone brushing some of the blemishes out, etc. ;-)

Edit: if you’re referring to a picture on kdedevelopers.org, then you should
probably just bug clee about importing
it instead of wasting 1.5 hours of your life. ;-)

Posted by mpyne under Uncategorized | No Comments »

Wow, some of these bugs keep getting weirder. Juk was crashing in certain situations because a function which for the life of me appears re-entrant seemed to be unable to cope with being called multiple times. Or maybe it’s a side effect of changes the calling function was making. Either way, I didn’t have time to investigate too deeply, so I turned the code path into a poor man’s critical section.

In home news today, I bought some Tabasco sauce because my cat keeps trying to bite and chew the vertical blinds I installed since she destroyed the old horizontal blinds. Sometimes it’s like you can’t win, but I want to be there when she tries to bite on the blinds now that I’ve coated them in some hot sauce. Muahahaha. :)

Also, anyone who has cats can tell you that litter boxes smell. So what I also bought today was an air filtering device for the laundry room (which is where the litter box is). It’ll take time to see if there’s any effect, but that’s OK. I can wait.

Unfortunately, my air conditioning is broken. In the middle of summer. In Florida. Luckily I live right next to the housing office, so it’s not a long trip to give them a piece of my mind. :-)

Posted by mpyne under Uncategorized | No Comments »