Today is my 21st birthday. It looks like I am getting some Lego Mindstorms stuff, which should be interesting. The custom shape code in dia now has a proper distance algorithm. This should get of the bugs where sometimes clicking on one object causes another one close by (which happens to be implemented with a custom shape) to be selected.
Had my 21st birthday party yesterday (the actual birthday is tomorrow though). It was pretty good, although we ended up with the same amount of swan gold as we started with (you can't even give that stuff away). Maybe this was also because we had some good beer as well. Thanks to everyone who came, as I had a great time.
That is annoying. If your browser has the diary page cached, you will overwrite your last diary entry. The form on the diary page has the entry number as a hidden field.
I have been looking through what was installed when I did the upgrade from RH6.1 to 6.2. It looks like it installed a lot of kde stuff during the upgrade without asking (there wasn't any kde stuff before). A bit annoying, but not too bad. What was annoying was when I tried to install a new gnome-core RPM I had just built, and I get the following message: file /usr/share/gnome/apps/.directory from install of gnome-core-1.1.8-20000413 conflicts with file from package kdebase-1.1.2-33 This seems fairly odd. Why would a file in /usr/share/gnome/apps be part of kdebase? So I decided to check what actually is in kdebase: $ rpm -ql kdebase | grep gnome /usr/share/applnk/gnome /usr/share/gnome /usr/share/gnome/apps /usr/share/gnome/apps/.directory On closer inspection, the file is a slightly different format from the one with gnome-core. Also, the one in the kdebase RPM doen't contain all the translations that are in the gnome-core version. Looking at the spec file for kdebase, the file was added by whoever made the RPM. I think I will file a bug report about this.
There was another GNOME steering committee meeting last night. This one was one hour earlier, which was unexpected but nice (the last one started at midnight). This probably had something to do with the daylight saving (something we don't have to worry about over in western australia, as it confuses the cows (yes that was one of the reasons people voted no in the referendum -- the cows would get confused if they were milked at a different time)). Comitted a plugin manager dialog to dia. You can now disable plugins if you want. It seems I got unsubscribed from the dia mailing list, which is a pain. The list seemed a bit quiet recently.