MindlessCode.net http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog Life, The Universe, and Everything through an ADSL connection. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en Once in a blue moon… http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/31/once-in-a-blue-moon/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/31/once-in-a-blue-moon/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:30:28 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=199 Tonight, as occurs every 2.71542689 years, the moon will be blue. Called blue, anyway. That’s because it’s the second full moon in one month! Now, it probably won’t be blue–unless you have a forest fire, volcanic erruption, or something.

Anyways, enjoy!

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/31/once-in-a-blue-moon/feed/ Hope the FCC doesn’t show up… http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/30/hope-the-fcc-doesnt-show-up/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/30/hope-the-fcc-doesnt-show-up/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2004 02:43:51 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=198 Whew! What a title :P. I installed a larger antenna for our D-Link wireless router today. After having a little trouble positioning it, the new antenna seems to work great! Now, I can get wireless from the nice, cool basement!

Hopefully the roof causes the signal to be muffled and I’m not broadcasting 300 ft. up or something! It’s cool, anyway.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/30/hope-the-fcc-doesnt-show-up/feed/ Lettuce! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/29/lettuce/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/29/lettuce/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:09:20 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=197 It’s almost the lettuce seed season, everybody, party! :S…yet another 90°F day. :D Weeded lettuce and pulled out sickly, dead, diseased plants. Fun!

I worked on trying to get Samba to share printers today…no luck at all :(. I did get the printer to spit out a blank page–once–but that was all. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it to work tomorrow–seems rather difficult. Smb4K seems pretty cool, but doesn’t seem to completely work :(.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/29/lettuce/feed/ Back home http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/27/back-home/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/27/back-home/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:07:59 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=196 Went on a camping trip to Kalaloch, WA with some family. That was a blast…anyway, I’m back :P.

Came home to hear about how “Linux is a threat to National Security”. See http://www.designnews.com/article/CA435615.html

Crazy…I’m not sure what this is susposed to mean. He suggests that open source software has the capability of being sabotaged by foreign developers. Huh? Is this kinda like Microsoft having to hand over the source code of Windows to China to examin it for holes? I’m not really sure, but Dan O’Dowd (CEO of Green Hills Software) seems to think. Does anybody remember of SELinux, published by the NSA?

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/27/back-home/feed/ Dreamweaver http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/24/dreamweaver/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/24/dreamweaver/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2004 00:56:58 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=193 I’ve been using Dreamweaver MX for a website under Linux using CrossOver Office. It actually works pretty well (CrossOver, that is), but IMO, Dreamweaver ain’t worth the resources or price. The code editor (where I spend most of my time!) isn’t quite up to snuff with Quanta and Kate. So, in a nutshell, I don’t like Dreamweaver, but whatever the website owner happy!

I made a newsletter publishing script (soon to be uploaded), so if anybody want’s it, I’m happy to share. It uses PHP and MySQL.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/24/dreamweaver/feed/ Error deleting files: Out of disk space http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/error-deleting-files-out-of-disk-space/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/error-deleting-files-out-of-disk-space/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:41:41 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=192

Nice…

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/error-deleting-files-out-of-disk-space/feed/ GTK is aweful! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/gtk-is-aweful/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/gtk-is-aweful/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:21:28 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=191 Death to GTK+! I was working on GEdit and getting it to cooperate with KDE dialogs today when I found that GEdit wouldn’t compile due to needing gcc to compile instead of g++ (which KDE needs/works best with). Looks like GTK was designed to be compatible with C++, and it ended up breaking it. Talk about irony.

Maybe as SadEagle suggested on #kde-devel, I can work up some extern “C” magic…

We’ll see.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/gtk-is-aweful/feed/ Heard back from the FSF http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/heard-back-from-the-fsf/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/heard-back-from-the-fsf/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:56:40 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=190 [EMAIL REMOVED - Mon Jul 12 [...]]]> I wrote the FSF today about propriatory GTK+ programs using KDE/Qt dialogs (through a patch to the GTK trunk). Below is what they said:

From: Dave Turner via RT Reply-To: licensing@fsf.org
To: Taj Morton
Subject: [gnu.org #206030] Licensing Question on GTK and Qt
Date: Thu. 23 Jul 2004 19:29:00 -0400 (16:29 PDT)

> [EMAIL REMOVED - Mon Jul 12 10:13:06 2004]:
>
> Hello,
> I have (what I think) is a simple question about licensing of Qt and
> GTK. If I make a patch the the GTK source that makes (GPL compatible)
> GTK apps use KDE dialogs, that’s totally legal (right?). However, if a
> commercial app (read: non GPL-compatible) shows a KDE dialog, would
> someone need to pay a license for Qt?

A proprietary application which links against your modified version of
GTK (licensed under the GPL) could not be distributed at all. It would
violate the license of the code taken from QT, and the license of GTK
(GPL, since you converted it via LGPL’s clause 3 in order to link in the
QT code).

–
-Dave “Novalis” Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation

could have two different versions of Gtk…one patched, one not. Or, I could just patch each app individually.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/23/heard-back-from-the-fsf/feed/ It’s summer, everybody! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/22/its-summer-everybody/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/22/its-summer-everybody/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:16:24 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=189 Yes, it is. It was 100°F today (that’s 38C)…nasty out in the hot sun. The river was nice though…

I just heard a very good show from Philosophy Talk. The show was entitled “Who Owns Ideas?”, and had Lawrence Lessig as their guest. Lawrence is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and author of “Free Culture”, LJ Editors Choice for non-technical book of the year.

You can listen to the show here (1hr, RealPlayer): http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/WhoOwnsIdeas.htm

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Yeh, maybe when you’re in the shade. Today we get to go out and weed Calendula :D.

I got some more work done on GEdit today and making it use KDE dialogs. Super! Maybe I’ll be able to merge it with the GTK trunk, but I have my doubts. Anyways, it’s cool

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/22/summer-weather/feed/ Lazarus http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/21/lazarus/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/21/lazarus/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:17:36 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=187 I checked out Lazarus again today. It seems like it’s comming along nicely, and maybe even mature enough to use for some projects. Of course, there are some bugs, like widgets aren’t themed along with the rest of Gtk, so it looks really ugly. Maybe it’ll be mature enough to use and I can leave C and C++ behind :P.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/21/lazarus/feed/ Welcome to Wordpress! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/21/welcome-to-wordpress/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/21/welcome-to-wordpress/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:55:50 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=66 It’s my new blogging software, Wordpress! It seems really nice and seems to work well. Timezones even seem work…no I wasn’t up at 3:30AM posting like some of my entries with bBlog stated!. Now, I just need to make myself a template and write something!
Enjoy!

I’ve been learning how to program in KDE with C++ lately. KDE has a very nice API (much nicer than GTK+/Gnome, I think, anyway). C++ is also a nice language, if you can learn it. All the C++ books at the library are checked out, so I’ve been learning by example and pestering Brian when I need help (hehe, sorry Brian).

I’ve got myself some new hosting for my collection of websites–D4Hosting (tell ‘em Taj sent ‘ya, I’ve got a reputation around there!). They seem pretty good and very flexable, easy to work with for people with special requirements, etc. Hopefully I’ll get the SSL thing straightened out soon.

‘Neways, have fun and stay tuned!

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]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/13/sorry/feed/ Bush in 30 seconds http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/bush-in-30-seconds/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/bush-in-30-seconds/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:38:22 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=184 [anonymous] pointed this out:
http://www.bushin30seconds.org

This is by far my favorite ad:
http://www.bushin30seconds.org/150/view.html?ad_id=1380
It got 62nd place…sheesh.
Oh well, enjoy!
Thanks to him/her for pointing this out to me.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/bush-in-30-seconds/feed/ Who not to host with http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/who-not-to-host-with/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/who-not-to-host-with/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:36:24 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=183 Stay as far away from SupremeServer as you can. Their hosting sucks and costs $$$ if you exceed their usages. Anybody know of any good hosting companies with rollover bandwidth?
Thanks…

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Look what I found:
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks/internet-songbook/

Ennnnjoy!
My favories:
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks/internet-songbook/usr-games-admin.html :) :)
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks/internet-songbook/we-two-geeks.html :) :) :) :)
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks/internet-songbook/god-rest-ye-copland-programmers.html
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks/internet-songbook/bill-gates-song.html
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks/internet-songbook/12-days-of-reading-period.html
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks/internet-songbook/12-bugs-of-christmas.html

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/funniest-geek-songs/feed/ Playing with new blog software… http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/playing-with-new-blog-software/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/playing-with-new-blog-software/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:14:41 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=181 I’ve been messing with Wordpress lately. It seems really nice and mature…haven’t found any bugs (yet!). I’m writing an import tool to get all the bBlog posts.

You’ll see it in a day or two.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/06/playing-with-new-blog-software/feed/ Looking for new Blog Software http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/03/looking-for-new-blog-software/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/03/looking-for-new-blog-software/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:07:38 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=180 I’m getting tired of bBlog and it’s time zones problems (looks like posts were made way before they actually where). Does anybody know of any other good PHP blogging systems? Post a comment if so.
Thanks!

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/03/looking-for-new-blog-software/feed/ Dutch Parliament Throws out Software Patents http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/02/dutch-parliament-throws-out-software-patents/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/02/dutch-parliament-throws-out-software-patents/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:48:49 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=179 From Slashdot:

Sanity writes “On May 18th, by a thin majority, the European Council of Ministers voted in favor of throwing out the European Parliament’s efforts to keep software patents out of Europe. According to an FFII press release, the Dutch Parliament yesterday voted to change its Minister’s vote, which was in favor, to an abstension. This is an unprecidented move and a great coup for those fighting against software patents, never before has a country reversed a vote in this manner. While this is not sufficient to reverse the decision of the Council of Ministers, it does pave the way for other countries, many of which were pressured into an affirmative vote, to do the same. Now is the time for citizens of the EU to put pressure on their national governments to follow the Dutch lead.”

Yay! Hopefully the rest of the EU will follow suite.

]]> http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/02/dutch-parliament-throws-out-software-patents/feed/ Free CA Nonprofit! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/02/free-ca-nonprofit/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/07/02/free-ca-nonprofit/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:18:48 +0000 taj http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/?p=178 Finally, some common sense! No longer will you have to pay big bucks to have a company create a small text file!
Non-profit CAcert Inc (based in AU) has started creating SSL certificates for free. The only problem–their root certificate is not trusted. Maybe the could buy somebodys…I donno.
Also, this is interesting. Look at the slashdot affect on the CAcert Website: http://www.onestat.com/aspx/reports.aspx?nav=i

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