Might go to Barcamp tomorrow:
http://barcamp.org/BarCampBoston2Registrants
Yeah, I know it’s Saint Patrick’s day, but it’s nothing to do with drink it’s about technology!
The Pogues
Going to see The Pogue at The Paradise tonight. Should be good craic. 😀
On other notes, Jetspeed 2.1 was released on March 3rd, so putting together an internal build for use at work.
Can’t believe that it’s been almost a month since I’v blogged. And on the Enlightement instructions, it works well on Debian, but in my Ubuntu Laptop it doesn’t work at all. I realised that after installing E17 using apt-get, that I had old libraries lying around from 2005 when I had compiled and installed E17 myself. I’m sure that caused a problem, but I’ve removed all traces I could find of the build I did and the binaries I apt-get’ed still work …
Enlightement e17 on Debian & Ubuntu
Update, April 17th, 2008:
This post is out of date, for a Debian update see:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/17/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian/
See newer instructions for Ubuntu here:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/15/e17-on-ubuntu-revisited/
Look for my latest postings on E17 as this information could be out-of-date:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/category/e17/
UPDATE, April 14th 2008:
Edevelop.org is temporarily down as they move their server to a new datacenter, which means these instructions will not work for Debian until the server is back online. However, for Ubuntu you can use the Dunnewind.net repository. Follow the instructions below, and comment out references to the Edevelop.org repository. I’ll do a proper update in the near future, or create a new posting and separate out the Debian & Ubuntu instructions.
Announcement below:
Edevelop.org has e17 packages for both Debian & Ubuntu. If you’d like to install the packages on either Debian or Ubuntu follow the procedure below:
Note: Not responsible for any damage this might do to your system.
Debian
For Debian sid/unstable edit /etc/apt/sources.list as root or using sudo and add the following lines:
# enlightenment e17 packages:
deb http://edevelop.org/debian unstable main
Ubuntu
If your using Ubuntu Edgy, add the following line to your sources.list, found in /etc/apt/:
# enlightenment e17 packages:
deb http://edevelop.org/pkg-e/ubuntu edgy e17
deb http://e17.dunnewind.net/ubuntu edgy e17
You can replace “edgy” with “gutsy” or “hardy”. Also, I’m not sure if there conflicts between the edevelop & dunnewind repostiories. And I cannot test them as edevelop is still down.
Update package list
Next you’ll need to update the package list:
sudo apt-get update
If needed install signing key
If you get the following warning:
W: GPG error: http://edevelop.org edgy Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 223020C2A7C6F0DF
you can add the signing key for the Edevelop repository. This is trivial to do, but not necessary, if you don’t do this you’ll receive a warning every time you update or install a package from edevelop.org:
cd /tmp/;
wget http://lut1n.ifrance.com/repo_key.asc;
sudo apt-key add repo_key.asc;
Install E17
To see most of the E17 packages available:
apt-cache search e17
To install all the packages (as of Feb-18-2007) on Debian:
sudo apt-get install e17 e17-extras engage engage eclair libemotion0-xine
To install all the packages (as of Feb-18-2007) on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install e17 engage libewl1-engines-all libewl1-engines-all engage
If you want to see what any of the packages provides you can use apt-cache show packagename. e.g.
apt-cache show e17
Package: e17
Source: enlightenment
Version: 1:0.16.999.037-0cvs20070217
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Falko Schmidt
Depends: enlightenment, e17-libs, e17-modules, eutils
Suggests: e17-extras
Architecture: i386
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/e17_0.16.999.037-0cvs20070217_i386.deb
Size: 8702
Installed-Size: 48
MD5sum: 1bf3e406695b3145fb3bb48944bb44ff
Description: Virtual package providing the E17 desktop shell
Enlightenment is an advanced window manager for X11. Unique
features include: a fully animated background, nice drop shadows
around windows, backed by an extremely clean and optimized
foundation of APIs.
.
This virtual package provides all you need to run E17:
* E17 windowmanager
* E17 modules
* E17 tools.
Logout and at the Login Screen, click on Session and select Enlightenment.
Thanks to the Enlightenment developers for creating Enlightement and continuing work on E17, and thanks to the folk at Edevelop.org for building and hosting the E17 packages.
For more information see the following links:
http://forums.debian.net/
https://launchpad.net/e17-repository
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ebuntu
Update: removed e-mail address in package listing.
Look for my latest posting on E17 as this information could be out-of-date:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/category/e17/
This originally posted at:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2007/02/18/enlightement-e17-on-debian-ubuntu/
1329.60 Meteres
Amazon sells animal fighting magazines and claims it’s a free speech issue?
WTF?
… magazines such as Feathered Warrior and Gamecock that run advertisements for dogs and birds bred for fighting, knives designed to be attached to their legs, and fighting events in states where ads for such events are a felony. Amazon is the only retail vendor for those magazines, according to the complaint.
http://www.thestreet.com/
http://www.hsus.org/
So based what these links claims is Amazon’s logic, then pictures of illegal acts is a free speech right. I wonder if they’d try and use the same argument for child porn or some other crap?
MythTV & Debian
HOWTO on now to MythTVise your Debian system:
http://www.wilson-stowe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27
Sunset
Sunset over the Charles River about a month ago, and what feels like a zillion degrees! The day I took that pic it was as warm as a nice spring day, today it’s Artic cold.
I wish it were that warm now, almost 11pm and it’s 16F or -9C and I gotta walk the dogs … brrrrr
Amsterdam!
Was in Amsterdam, NL, a few years ago for a friend’s birthday. While deleting old e-mails came across a link to this great overview of Amsterdam:
The sad part is that there are people who literally avoid Amsterdam because they’re not interested in dope, hookers or tulips. A friend of mine was once touring Europe with some of his art school pals, but chose not to join them on their side-trip to Amsterdam. “Nah I’m not into that stuff,” he figured. So he missed the Vermeers and the cool buildings and the open-air cafés and street music and canals and bridges and the basic bliss of aimless wandering.
Myself and some friends ended up staying at Pieter’s Apartment that we rented from Wimmo & Godwin who run this B&B.
Ghouls and Ghosts!
Fun looking game:
http://www.valarsoft.com/ramuso/?dpage=pagine&page=pagine&pagID=8
Used to play the original game, that this is based on, when I was a wee bit younger. Going to see if I can build it on my Ubuntu laptop, so far I need to install the liballegro-dev packages and associated dependencies.
Found out about the game at Linux Games.
Got it to build easily enough, but it looks like the author isn’t too familiar with Linux/Unix based on how and where everything got compiled too! The binary is even called game.exe!
Otherwise, the game is a very good rendition of the original. I haven’t played it too much yet, kinda hard to play it properly on my laptop, gotta try it on my desktop which has a real keyboard. Plus, I need to figure out how to re-map the keys, ctrl is shoot and alt is jump, which just feels clumsy to me. All-in-all it looks pretty good, can’t tell if there is sound as the speakers on my lovely Dell 700m laptop don’t work anymore. From what I’ve read this is pretty common and is due to the wires to the speakers fraying where the laptop lid/screen is hinged. Way to go Dell!
JSR-168 Portlets
Good article from BEA about how to write JSR-168 compliant Portlets:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/12/writing-jsr-168-portlets.html