Bloggy

Getting ready to go for a trip

Haven’t blogged in a while, guess I’ve been pretty busy. Which is a pity, as I have always lamented the fact that there was no Planet KDE, until clee went and fixed that for me.

Web site coding

So I’d finally set up my grandma’s computer the other day, and configured it to run Fluxbox and Mozilla Firefox to conserve memory. Unfortunately, Fluxbox isn’t included with Gentoo’s GRP package, and after a few hours of compiling it was looking like my grandma’s computer would never be able to install it either. So what I did was setup a chroot environment on my home system which is very similar to my Grandma’s system, down to the last USE flag. I was then able to compile binary packages on my fast home system and then have them downloaded from my Grandma’s slow computer. It was up at /cgi-bin/x86-packages but I’ve since lost that content. ~~Feel free to browse around, but please don't actually download anything, my upload bandwidth is bad enough as it is. ;-)~~

Lotsa stuff

I’m just blogging this random collection of thoughts.

More tackiness

annma has kindly tested the last release of Tacky. I feel sort of bad for even releasing it, as it wouldn’t even start up if you hadn’t configured the directory already! But anyways, I’m putting v0.6.1 out, which fixes that problem, and makes it possible to build using the normal automake framework again thanks to an /admin directory update (again thanks to annma).

My new blogging tool.

Well I’ve been working a little on a pyblosxom blogging tool for me to use while in KDE. I’ve named it Tacky, although it has no relation to clee‘s Tack blogger.

BWAHAHAHA

I was reading JWZ’s blog, and came across him posting about his experiences reporting a GIMP bug.

Some answers to FAQs

As I was reading Boudewijn’s blog entry on the upcoming KDE 3.3, I noticed that he was also having difficulties with the new Document Relations Toolbar in Konqueror. So I will give the same piece of advice, that I have given on #kde-devel about two or three times now: In Konqueror, Tools -> Document Relations -> Configure -> Never. The toolbar won’t bug you until you enable it again.

w00t! & my experience as a Linux ambassador

So I’ve been practicing for my Navy PRT. After taking a two day break, I go to the gym again today and start running again. I was finally able to manage to beat my required time of 13 minutes and 30 seconds by running 1.5 miles in 12:40. The catch is that my feat was performed indoors, on a treadmill, listening to some very driving music for motivation. But at least I know that it can be done.

Exercise and E-mail

So, I’ve been exercising a lot recently. I have to get ready to go to Officer Candidate School in January, and I wouldn’t like to have my heart explode after 2 days or so. I was able to get my 1.5 mile run time down to 14:30 today (quit laughing, I’ve never exercised in my life until this month). I would like to get it around 12:30 (or better). I already feel that I can breathe deeper, but now I need to psych myself up into running for longer, faster.

pWNed by the Russian Mafia

Saw this story on Slashdot.