This time, Eddy Petrișor, describes going from Windows XP to Windows 7 at work, and somehow this transitions into experiences with upgrading to GNOME 3: What's common between Windows 7 and GNOME 3 / gnome-shell?
Here comes Jon Dowland with a list of things he hit: "I didn't set out to bug-hunt this morning, I'm actually trying to get some work done".
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A tip if you want to try installing snap on a machine you have played with it a long time ago: remove ~/.cabal and ~/.ghc before running cabal update && cabal install snap
Man, I wish I had discovered ~/.ghc an hour ago...
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Since I switched to GNU Emacs earlier this year, I have dismantled my daily snapshot packages of the development version of XEmacs.
I think I was the only one using them anyway, so the little site won't be missed.
I kept it running for more than two years - longer than I would have guessed.
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The auctex-package in Debian unstable seems to have recently started to depend on emacs23.
I have emacs-snapshot (GNU Emacs 24) installed and no need for emacs23. So, with the aid of Google, I learned to type:
$ equivs-control fake-emacs23 $ jove fake-emacs23 $ equivs-build fake-emacs23 $ sudo dpkg --install fake-emacs23_1.0_all.deb
And then I could install auctex again. Nice!
The fake-emacs23 control file looked like this:
Section: misc Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.9.2
Package: fake-emacs23 Provides: emacs23 Architecture: all Description: Fake Emacs 23 pretends to provide Emacs 23 so auctex can be installed. Fake package providing emacs23.
Simple as that.
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The public image of Perl varies quite a lot. Some think of it as an ancient, cryptic, write-only language for CGI-scripts, others of the wonders of CPAN, others again about the human genome project, others about the wildly varying degree of 90'sness of the Perl websites.
On the 24th anniversary of the release of Perl 1.000 The Perl Foundation has published the grant proposals that are currently up for discussion - here are 3 of the 4 proposals:
I dare you not to laugh while reading those!
Highly entertaining - or tragic? Perhaps a big honking joke? I doubt they are good publicity for Perl, regardless.
Anyway, that might not be so important.
Or, hopefully people will think April 1st came twice this year.
Update: Well handled.
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Math jokes were as sec 30 years ago as they are today.
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Today I finally got my act together and rummaged through a shoebox of wires to find one I could use to earth my turntable.
After getting rid of the tuner - so I am now down to amplifier, jukebox and turntable - I moved the turntable farther away from the amplifier, which meant that the grounding cable was too short.
I hadn't done anything about it because, well, I hadn't.
But now I have found a piece of wire and two alligator clips, and am listening to U2's Achtung Baby on vinyl proper.
Also, my christmas light went up in the window tonight. It feels like I just took it down.
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