A broken system and exams
My system just broke two days ago and I can’t boot into it. That in itself isn’t such a bad thing since I can just recover the files and reinstall/repair the system, but the bad thing comes when you have exams coming up and a LOT of other things to worry about. Such things as “Who will I go to prom with?” The hardest part of graduation is finding a prom partner and since I’m one of the least skilled people in the area of dealing with girls, I’m in a disadvantaged position. I won’t make this post too long since I have to leave the house for a game of tennis right now (the weather is beautiful and I don’t want to miss it), but you shouldn’t expect many things from my side for two weeks or more. Although I will still (try to) update raptor and konversation and perhaps I will package Bespin (cloudcity) too. Maybe a couple of small handy scripts too, since I’m learning Perl right now (and I’m finding it pretty powerful). For now, bye, but I will be back when I get my system up and running again 
new script, new packages
So, the school term is finishing and the teachers are dumping everything on us poor students. As a result, I have been really busy lately. But, today I found some time to update konversation and raptor packages, and also to update the updatepkg script. It has a lot of new things now! You can specify only the name of a specfile (e.g. konversation) instead of the full path, and you can tell it where the final packages go (e.g. ~/rpmbuild/RPMS or ~/builtpkgs) and it will automatically create the appropriate directory hierarchy and put the pkgs in them. Other than that, it can play sounds when it finished it’s job (if you add a –sound option to it with the full path of a sound file .ogg, .wav or anything that ‘play’ can play). It also logs the things it does in detail, take it from svn/git updates, to mock logs.
Enough with intro, let’s get to work. You can download the script from http://amoradi.fedorapeople.org/scripts and the updated konvi and raptor packages from http://amoradi.fedorapeople.org/rpms.
Have fun and wish me luck on tests and exams and projects and all that!
looya! Now what?
Last things first, I’m thinking of writing a pseudocode parser that parses pseudocode to python code and executes it. It will be almost line-to-line translation between these two. The point of this is:
1) It’s fun
2) I’ll learn more about C++ libraries (especially boost)
3) It’s fun
4) It’s fun
5) Next time that I’m teaching concepts of programming to someone, I don’t need to teach them the syntax (of python) too.
6) It’s fun
So, here are 6 reasons why I’m doing this. So far, I have written down some ideas of what it will/should look like. Very similar to English, but not too close (e.g. “I kan haz bling bling” will not work for example).
On top of that, I’m thinking of making it extensible with the capability to add new keywords easily. Maybe a compiled-in plugin thingy will work fine.
Anyhow, I called it “looya” based on some random letters that came to my mind. However, a second thought made me realize that it’s awfully similar to lua. So, here it comes the first things:
1) What do you think a cool name would be?
2) Is it worth thinking about or should I abandon it before I even start it because it’s just so stupid?
Microsoft hit…badly
I’m generally not a fan of seeing companies engage in patent-y stuff, but this one was so cool I couldn’t help but post it here:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39638887,00.htm
Microsoft was hit by USD$388,000,000 (watching the zeros makes me feel better ). As soon as I read this, I remembered the case of M$ with TomTom.
pretty emacs
I recently switched to emacs from vim, and I’m enjoying it. I feel that the shortcuts are more sane when used with Dvorak layout. Anyway, emacs 22 doesn’t look so nice, so I looked about for emacs 23 and found this repo from Brad Walker:
install the repo (bmw-release) and install emacs:
$ yum install emacs
and of course, enjoy
EDIT: here is some color themes for emacs:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/GNUEmacsColorThemeTest/
I’m not dead either!
I, too, have been quite quiet sometime. It has been much due to the fact that school is killing me as of this very moment. But today I found some time to work on some packages and update them to the latest and the greatest. So, here are raptor-menu and konversation updated
raptor & konvi: http://amoradi.fedorapeople.org/rpms/
Vote identi.ca
http://march.shoeboxed.com/
here, vote for identi.ca, the free solution to micro-blogging needs!
Some GTK+ themes
Any chance of getting these themes (from Ubuntu 9.04) into Fedora? Not to be shipped, of course, just as a package somewhere!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-039-s-New-Themes-106961.shtml
self.take_note(git)
getting git running is a bit odd if you don’t know your way around. After some fighting, I figured it out, and so, here is a note to self in case I need to refer to it later.
$ git init
$ git remote add origin git@example.org/project.git
$ git add my_folder file1 file2
$ git commit -m ‘commit message’
$ git push origin master
$ git push
coding and religion
What would you call your favorite programming language if it was a religion?
http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html
I just found it funny and wanted to share it
