I’ve known Jess six years. Naela six and a half. Robyn seven. Tessa, five and a half. Dawn, six. Nick, seven. Julia, seven. Max, seven. Joey, six. Wow.
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From the gosh-that’s-pretty department, GNUStep Theme Mockup.
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GNOME usability issues:
- Ambiguity between notification-area icons, launcher applets, task-switcher buttons (if enabled) is really bizarre
- Apps that hide to the notification area vs minimization.
And non-GNOME GTK apps:
- Inconsistent use of Control-W as close window.
- Some still have Control-Q to close all windows, often without warning.
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I discovered a nice little trick for GNOME users running GStreamer apps. You can play sound across the net from any GST app, like so:
Open gstreamer-preferences, and set the sound output to the “Custom” option. Put in the text entry underneath esdsink host=1.2.3.4 where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of where you want the sound to go.
On the destination host, make sure ESD is running with the options -public -tcp.
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I’m pondering coming out to a group of more-or-less coworkers. I’m not sure I want to (they think I’m female (Yay that!)) … and they only know me online, so in some ways, I’m exactly where I want to be.
Not sure what to do.
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Yesterday, Susan at the pet store said that I should write technology articles for the local papers. She’s one of these people who avoids turning on her computer due to lack of understanding. I like the idea.
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I woke up at 7:40 from a dream where I was late to work, had left my cell phone (and alarm clock) at work, missing two important appointments. A very unusual way for me to start the day.
Read the news, realized I had a conference call at 9. Which was a no-show. Got breakfast at 10:30, and the radio played TMBG and the Indigo Girls while I ate.
Memories of Corvallis.
I’m listening to an old mix that Robyn gave me right now. “I’ll Be That Girl” is such a button-pushy song for me. I ate burritos with sour cream and avocado and barley and tomatillo salsa in them, just like I did living there. I’d love nothing more than a mug of tea and to go wander to the park with Robyn and talk.
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I spent a half hour extolling the virtues of Orson Scott Card’s work to an avid non-reader of fiction. Life is fun.
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I hate having to use <code><pre> rather than <code style=’white-space: pre’>, but aggregators and feed readers ignore external CSS, and Planet strips CSS entirely from the embedded HTML. Blah. Here’s to XML in 2010. Maybe we’ll use it to its advantage then.
IPv6
I just got pTRTd and TOTd working on the local network. If you use the right nameserver, it’ll direct requests for all names to be translated to IPv6 addresses by TOTd. The names it returns are (by configuration) magically happening to be the ones that pTRTd will forward to the IPv4 host, meaning that a machine speaking only IPv6 can talk to the IPv4 internet:
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aredridel@betelgeuse:~$ telnet google.com 80 Trying 1000::d8ef:3963... Connected to google.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: google.com`HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: http://www.google.com/ Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=5568f1724a0d5c4b:TM=1108068407:LM=1108068407:S=6Z7R1-PKbx73Xmu6; expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com Content-Type: text/html Server: GWS/2.1 Content-Length: 152 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:46:47 GMT
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> <H1>302 Moved</H1> The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>. </BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
Pretty cool, eh? Yes, on my network, 1000::d8ef:3963 is Google. It’s not a legal address, and my first attempt to use the site-local fec0:: address space failed: Linux does some weird shit to addresses like that. At least since IPv6 has so much address space, you don’t need to use site-local addresses except as the Right Thing for local translators and things like that. Oh, well. I just yoinked 1000::/64 since all legal IPv6 addresses currently live in 2000::/3 or 3ffe::/16.
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I just said goodbye to Meli, my cousin. She’s headed back to Aspen to work the rest of the winter, then back to Buenos Aires. She says I should come to Argentina. Maybe after I pay off the business…
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I should be in bed, but instead I hacked on the Wiki renderer, adding something I’ve wanted to do for a while — add XHTML2-inspired links. Any normal markup can now have <url> appended to it, and it will turn the previous thing into a link. I think it’s delightfully clean, just as the href attribute working on nearly any element in XHTML2 is elegant.