Slashtime

January 2, 2006 General Comments Off on Slashtime

I’ve been meaning to install Andrew’s slashtime utility on my Solaris laptop for a while, especially since I’ve been lame and not spent the time to port our timezone clock applet patch that we have for JDS to the newer versions of GNOME. Fortunately it was a relatively easy task. I first quickly grabbed the CPAN module and created a spec file for it, created the package using pkgbuild, installed it, and then tried to run the slashtime utility. The original script had some Linux’isms [or so I assume], and fetching the TZ variable from /etc/default/init seemed to do the trick and things were running nicely. The patch is here for anyone interested. Neat utility, thanks Andrew!

P.S. I know my Perl is pretty oooky.

Toastin’

January 1, 2006 General Comments Off on Toastin’

Andrew, I was just thinking the same thing. Some serious hot air, and it’s not the result of the post-pudding Christmas day. Fortunately we’re armed with a couple of rash vests, some 30+ sun block and a backgrarden pool which makes things just about bearable.

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