I’ve literally spent all day trying to install Fedora Core 8 on my old laptop – the one I used to (fairly easily) develop Evolution on. Hmm, default – too slow and bloated to be remotely usable (took about 2 hours to boot the live-cd and get the installer running from the console). Got xfce [...]
Category Archives: General
Bloody hell.
May 8, 2008 – 10:50 am
What the hell is wrong with some of the people in this country? Some of the other papers have comments as well, but many of them are so sickening I couldn’t link to them. While i’m here, why did ubuntu 8.04 install a damn beta of firefox? At least it’s easy to downgrade.
blast from the past
May 8, 2008 – 1:55 am
I thought i’d try something a bit different and recreate some Amiga demo routines I wrote 15 years ago (hmm, was it that long). Hmm, still some way to go … The next bit of this routine is going to be tricky without the blitter and a bitplane oriented display …
sigh
May 4, 2008 – 2:47 pm
I noticed emacs was a bit funny on my ps3 – just didn’t look right and behaved funny. The scrollbar didn’t work properly, and now you can scroll too far down. And whats with this rubbish that selecting text with the mouse suddenly vanishes when you hit delete? That isn’t emacs behaviour. Oh. Gtk+. I [...]
gnu 1, windows 0
April 29, 2008 – 7:13 am
Sometimes it’s the little things. I needed to scan a page into the computer to send in an email, and I thought ‘no worries, there’s a scanner at work doing nothing i’ll give that a go’. Oops, we only have Windows XP x86_64 and the drivers wont work. Fortunately I have a couple of linux [...]
spu jobs, more mplayer
April 27, 2008 – 6:11 am
Got my job queue stuff going. In the end I made a few changes, and also it only works a as a single reader/writer, but it is lockless, and I can interrupt-wait on the ppe. SPE’s have atomic operations which go through the DMA controller – they work on 128 bytes of data atomically which [...]
queues, yuv
April 24, 2008 – 7:04 am
I finished off the yuv conversion document. Enough of that. I started looking at implementing a job queue last night. I thought I’d use the atomic update functions to implement it. At least that way I can easily write a single-reader queue, and without too much hassle make it multiple-writer too, if I ever need [...]
windows suxors
April 23, 2008 – 5:46 am
I messed up some queries and sent postgresql into a spin yesterday, a couple of times. So I ended up with 2 processes cpu bound. Just about bought my whole system to a standstill – well, emacs still ran ok, and mozilla wasn’t too bad, but visual studio forgot it was running on a dual-core [...]
mplayer
April 21, 2008 – 4:10 am
Made good progress over the weekend on the mplayer vo module. Took a bloody long time though – bugs in code, not undertanding api’s, not understanding how mplayer wants it’s vo drivers to work. But I got there in the end – well just, it had me solidly occupied the whole weekend, much to the [...]
ps3 stuff
April 18, 2008 – 5:59 am
Hmm, that was fun, a week of playing around with xcel to massage some data before it was loaded. I’m surprised how crap xcel is when you really have to use it to do something. All of it’s little quirks and funny ways of doing things – it’s something that just feels old and out [...]
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