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Monthly Archives: February 2006

mount/unmount

17 February 2006

fejj: The eject button works if the hardware isn’t broken. Unfortunately an alarmingly large number of CD drives are broken in this respect and don’t send the right signal over the IDE bus. It was removed a long time ago because most drives didn’t work, but this recent thread on the HAL list [...]

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“go nuts?” who talks like that?

17 February 2006

Federico adds Beagle support to the GTK file chooser. Totally awesome.
It is true that we demoed “integration” back at GUADEC, but that was an evil evil hack written back before there was a libbeagle. His patch is a step in the right direction. We now have Beagle support in Nautilus, Yelp, the [...]

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bacon aside…

17 February 2006

Thanks everyone who emailed and trackbacked about my feed reader questions. People recommended both hosted services and software packages I can run on my own server. The hosted services included FeedLounge, Google Reader, and Netvibes. Software recommended included Tiny Tiny RSS, Gregarius, and FoF Redux. Several people also suggested workarounds for [...]

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i will ruin your with my anger

13 February 2006

Ok, I’ve had enough with Bloglines. I really like it but I’ve been seeing this same bug now for several months and they never fix it despite my bug reports. I’m at my breaking point now.
The bug is that I have the blog list in the left pane of my reader with unread [...]

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part 2 of the joe shaw seminar series

9 February 2006

You thought you had avoided it, didn’t you?
Writing code in a managed environment created after 64-bit processors became common, you thought you had avoided all the issues dealing with 64-bit uncleanliness. And mostly, you have. It’s only when you interoperate with unmanaged code that it really gets you.
Code like this:
IntPtr elementPtr = (IntPtr) [...]

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