David's WebLog

June 2003

Monday, 30 June 2003
Linux publicity - Aardvark, MoreFM, TriangleTV. Roger dropped by. Drove over to Ponsonby to pay TriangleTV for a couple of community notices. Had a coffee with Ralph [C].

Sunday, 29 June 2003
Late lunch with Simon and Tim at Galbraith's[B]. Added Wiki. Slept.

Friday, 27 June 2003
[tux] The Herald published Chris's article on using Linux today B-D. Lots of email. Did my IR3 tax return. [nz] No-one wants to pay tax, but it is the basis of democratic civil society, so I'm happy to pay my share. (If it wasn't for Intel's discounted share purchases scheme it would be just so much easier!)

Thursday, 26 June 2003
[ice] Back to IceWM Control Panel. Got the mouse configuration, windows options and preferences applets (sortof) working. Gym.

Wednesday, 25 June 2003
[B] Bottled my ginger beer. Added logos to my resumé, just so it looks purty B-). Helped David set up his Conexant HSF modem. Linuxant has done an excellent job on Conexant drivers.

Quote for the day:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
  • George Bernard Shaw

    • Command for the day:
    rpm -q --qf '%{ARCH}' kernel
  • Find out what architecture (i386/i686/athelon) kernel is installed.

    • Tuesday, 24 June 2003
    [tux] Roger and I installed and demonstrated Linux for Chris Barton at the NZ Herald. Had a problem with ModemLights :-!, but got it all going in the end :-D. Had a late lunch at the Shakespeare [B]. Gym.

    Monday, 23 June 2003
    Migrated web and mail to linuxsoftware.co.nz. Had lunch with the SPacSoft team. Played around with Linux office apps - OpenOffice/Evolution/MrProject/TheGimp.

    Friday, 20 June 2003
    Researched resizing NTFS partitions. Bit more work on the InstallFest rego form.

    Thursday, 19 June 2003
    [tux] Coded up a registration form for the Linux InstallFest.

    Wednesday, 18 June 2003
    [tux] Linux publicity. Went shopping, bought some shirts and second hand books (Red Mars, The Boys from Brazil, Soldier of Arete). Dropped Mandrake CDs off at Rogers.

    Tuesday, 17 June 2003
    [tux] Burned Red Hat and Mandrake CDs. InstallFest publicity work. Derek came over with his baby son Caleb. Spent the afternoon chatting. Gym.

    Monday, 16 June 2003
    [tux] Upgraded memory. Installed Mandrake 9.1. Made new Red Hat 9 and Mandrake 9.1 images.

    Sunday, 15 June 2003
    Tramping in the Waitakeres with Brendan and Roger. Tramped up Karamatura valley, over to Mt. Donald McLean, and out to Roger's car. Had coffee at Huia Store.
    waitaks_falls2.jpg

    Friday, 13 June 2003
    Pretty slack day. Did a tiny bit of PyGtk. Some emailing and messaging. Went to the pub with David and his mate Andy [B].

    Thursday, 12 June 2003
    [ice] More work on IceWM Control Panel. Wallpaper setting pretty much working, but I've stuffed up the "drag-n-drop" support. Will get back to that later.

    [tux] Linux InstallFest meeting. I'm now the advertising organizer. InstallFest, 5 July, AUT. Volunteers needed!

    Wednesday, 11 June 2003
    Installed Java after much mucking around. What a mission! Now though I can view Asciimation in all its stunning cinematography. First Sun's self extracting RPM didn't, then Mozilla spent two long hours downloading an XPI only to throw it away because of permissions problems. Hint: Download XPI files using wget, then install them from the local drive.

    Went for a walk up Mt. Roskill while Mozilla was downloading the Java XPI for the second time.
    mt_roskill.jpg

    Tuesday, 10 June 2003
    [ice] Working on the Wallpaper Setting of the IceWM Control Panel.

    [C] Tim dropped by, we went for coffee at Cedar Café and Bakery up the road. Good coffee, and Tim agrees the potato salad is good too. Skipped gym. Went and saw Phone Booth at St. Lukes. V. Good!

    Monday, 09 June 2003
    Hit e3's web space limit. Moved my photo albums off to tripod.com.

    Roger came over to get a copy of Red Hat 9. Burned a set of CDs from my disk images, but it turns out those are corrupt P-|. Had to get the originals off David. Watched end of NZ Maori vs English rugby match. Ate Jan's delicious apple & cinnamon muffins.

    Sunday, 08 June 2003
    David arrived early, dragged me off to the Gym. Lunch at Galbraiths [B].

    (Told you this was boring Tim! I don't seek to entertain, I'm just accounting for my time.)

    Saturday, 07 June 2003
    [world] Joined Amnesty International. (Sometimes I think the world is really screwed up.) Started brewing my ginger beer.

    Friday, 06 June 2003
    Porting IceWM Control Panel to PyGTK-2 is slowly getting there.
    icewmcp2.png
    Registered my new domain name http://www.linuxsoftware.co.nz :-D.

    Tried to convice David of the advantages of PyGTK over GTK+GladeXML. Rebecca flew off for her OE#2.

    Wednesday, 04 June 2003
    [ice] Porting IceWM Control Panel to PyGTK-2. Gym.

    Tuesday, 03 June 2003
    Back from tiki touring Wellington-Napier. Herald has a good article on Linux.

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