Well this is upsetting
Apparently my “mess of a blog” been causing some amount of trouble to people wishing to upgrade to KDE4 on Slackware. I do not know the full extent of damage I may have caused to people’s systems, nor how many systems may have been affected, but either way I must apologize for any inconveniences caused. I apparently was extremely lucky this even worked.
I’ve taken down the post for now; those looking for the KDE4 experience on Slackware should probably wait for 13.0 to come out, or do a full upgrade to slackware-current. Howtos for both exist on the internet.
Perhaps I’ll just stick to coding for now. :/
IRCBot 0.7 has moved to SF
That’s right, I’ve moved it to SourceForge, mainly because I think it deserves its own page/space, plus my website is having a horrible time staying up… That will be resolved soon hopefully.
http://circebot.sourceforge.net.
I know, I make very cheesy logos sometimes.
Dev Codex SVN Repository
I might remove my downloads folder on my main site, and instead move everything to my newly created repository: http://code.assembla.com/devcodex/subversion/nodes
All stable releases of my projects will be under “releases”, however if you feel a little more adventurous, feel free to try out stuff from “unstable”.
Also, updates to the repository will be posted on twitter: http://twitter.com/devcodex.
Old old flash cartoon
In the midst of sorting through my CD collection, I found an old backup from when I had to do a cartoon using Flash MX. I was only about 13 at the time, but I think I did a fairly okay job… for a 13-year-old. Well the teacher thought so at least.
Through software migrations and hardware upgrades the cartoon appeared to have gotten lost, so I had a pleasant surprise when it resurfaced. For the lack of anything else more interesting to post, I’m going to put it up here for posterity. I might remake it once I have the chance.
Unfortunately WordPress does not allow the embedding of Flash movies, so you’ll have to click the link here: http://mypage.siu.edu/shharvey/harvcartoon1.swf
Enjoy!
Updates and ACM promotional stuff
I perhaps have 3-4 posts with this name already, but oh well.
I have added a section for hardware experimentations, and will be posting pages/stuff in that section fairly soon. The main challenge now is to find time to actually work on things, as since I’m taking tech writing and statistics (with calculus!) plus having ACM to attend to, I generally do not have much time to really do anything. Also I’ve made the site W3C standards compliant, plus fixed any “lost”/moved pages by doing a 301 redirect.
Speaking of ACM: If you are a student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (SIUC), and are majoring in Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), Information Technology (IST), or are generally interested in computers, join the local Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) organization here on campus. We are undergoing a major overhaul after being stagnant for the past few years, and we need new members! Join us!
Okay, that’s my little promotional rant there.
Other news: I did get the 2.6.30 kernel compiled on my MSI GX630 laptop, plus I forgot to mention that the latest NVIDIA drivers for Linux x86 at least fix the bug where, once X.org was started, you could no longer view your ttys. You could still type blindly in them (I tested this by entering username, password, then doing /sbin/reboot, which… rebooted the system of course…), but could not see anything. ALSA in the 2.6.30 kernel also identifies the Realtek audio chip as HDA Audio instead of 10EC device, which is good. I’m finding that there is a dedicated driver for it from Realtek, which I will try out later today, which will hopefully solve the weird bug where all audio output (front panel speakers, headphones, line-in) are controlled by “Headphones” in alsamixer.
I will be posting up the .config for my kernel build later today.
Site news
Apparently the admin of my site at http://devcodex.co.cc has told me that we are in the midst of a server migration. So unfortunately I cannot post code/stuff/etc until the migration is complete. Perhaps it is time to investigate alternative (paid) solutions, such as that of a VPS.
Oh well.
In other news, I procured a Zipit Z2 about a week ago, and have been doing some general experimentation with it. It has come to the point now where I’m curious about compiling everything myself (although without much luck).
Some links:
I have tried the older premade custom Linux image for the zipit (worked), the new premade image (didn’t work), and bitbake (didn’t work), although it is quite possible I somehow screwed up something in the transfer/setup of my SD card.
There is an alternative site BuildRoot (http://buildroot.uclibc.org/) which I may try tonight. Otherwise, I’ll be attempting to follow the directions from CLFS (http://trac.cross-lfs.org/). With a little luck, I’ll have something to show for it.
IRCBot 0.7
IRCBot 0.7 is now currently in development; check out the status/changelog here: http://devcodex.co.cc/code/ircbot.php.
I also should probably start reorganizing the content on the main website.
Doodle update
I finally put up that doodles page, although I found out after that I had lost my old ones I had intended to put up in the first place. Oh well.
Perhaps it’s high time I make that comic I keep promising to make.
Other news: talk.ath.cx has a new home, courtesy of Serinth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyphone/3560291511/in/photostream/
WP-related Updates
So more or less my posts have been migrated successfully to devcodex.wordpress.com, where hopefully server migrations won’t affect it as much. The only con-side to this is that I can’t use my own custom theme, custom url, nor custom plugins, however this must be sacrificed for reliability.
However, I’m using a custom PHP RSS feeder to feed the posts to http://devcodex.co.cc ; I might actually change this to get various posts from WP but re-stylize them on my site front-end.
Also need to find something to auto-notify twitter of wordpress posts.
EDIT: found TwitterFeed; it shortens your new blog post urls and posts them on your twitter account.
Server Migration
After a series of frustrations from our old hosting solution, Hostnth recently made the decision to switch from a shared to a dedicated server solution for our hosting. The result? More control, and quite possibly better maintenance.
I also changed the domain (yet again) to make it easier to remember. No more numbers!. Also, d3vbox has moved to portfolio.devcodex.co.cc.
As you also perhaps noticed, there’s a new design accompanying the domain change, as well as the migration of blog posts. I’m still ironing out kinks, and contemplating whether or not to implement a comments system, although that might soon get spammed.
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