Bright and Shiny Things

I have just discovered Bloglines, a site that “keeps track of your favorite news, blogs, weather, and classifieds so that you don’t have”. It’s all the RSS feeds I subscribe to in one convenient place, and I love it. I currently subscribe to:

• Dustbunny Devlopment Blog
• Dilbert Daily
• Get Fuzzy Daily
• The Hacks of Life
• I, Cringely
• Joel on Software
• RSS of the latest Linux Kernel
• Linux Journal
• My friend’s movie reviews
• Slashdot
• Stack Overflow
• X-Plane Scenery Blog

And pyuic4 may be one of the greatest tools ever. I drag and drop a few things, make things look nice, and get hundreds of lines of bug-free code in a few minutes.

So after several hours of recompiling, rebooting, and testing, I have come to the conclusion that I can not get sound to work with 2.6.25.3.  In 2.6.24.7, the other kernel I use, sound worked by doing “modprobe snd-hda-intel”.  With 2.6.25, that throws “module not found” at me.  So now I am just using the 2.6.24.7 kernel until I can (maybe) get this sound problem sorted.

And now for something completely different-

I am going to start developing a Linux From Scratch system on a flash drive soon.  A mobile OS will do me a good, I think.

Just updated to the newest Linux kernel (2.6.25.3) and the newest beta nVidia drivers (173.08).  Everything went perfectly smoothly, kernel compilation time was only about 45 minutes, and the only (slight) problem I had was I tried to use the 169.12 drivers, the nVidia kernel did not compile, so I had to reboot with the 2.6.24.16 Linux kernel and go to the nVidia website and realize the only the new beta drivers worked sans patching with 2.6.25.

I’ve decided I’m going to release a 1.0 version when everything on my to-do list is done, which should be soon.  I’ve only got one thing left, and it should be pretty easy to do.  Then I’ll probably go back through and try to make everything better, make any changes to the setup script, change anything else, and release it.

Finished up a setup script, so I figured I’d put up a alpha-esque download on Google Code.  Anyway, grab it here.

It feels like a Tuesday, even though it’s actually Wednesday, and should feel like a Thursday.

?sdrawkcab rof taht s’woH

PyCLparse is an experimental Python module for parsing the command line. Basically, you associate a option name with a function to call if that option is passed. It’s pretty basic right now, but I hope to build upon it to turn it into something useful. Google Code page here. I make nightly (or more) SVN commits, so feel free to browse the source. It works, as of now, but it doesn’t have some of the features I want it to have. Once I write a proper distutils setup script and a README, I’ll put together some sort of beta release package.

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04. The upgrade went flawlessly, and several problems were fixed during the upgrade to Hardy Heron, among them issues with my xorg.conf and Suspend/Hibernate mode troubles.

The Grey Album is so sweet. With my new hard drive, I finally loaded all my music from my Mac to my Ubuntu machine, and found the Grey Album again. For those who don’t know, the Grey Album is an album by DJ Danger Mouse which combines an a capella version of Jay-Z’s Black Album with samples from The Beatles’ White Album. Jay-Z is great, The Beatles are great, but the two together are better then either one separate. Give the Grey Album a spin if you can.

Basically, this error happens when you are trying to use a Python extension that was compiled in a different Unicode size then your current build. Deleting /usr/local/lib/python2.5 is the first step. Then download whatever version of Python you prefer. Depending on what error you are getting (2 or 4), change the following to fit your needs ./configure --enable-unicode=ucs4. After that, do this to check if it worked.

import sys
if sys.maxunicode <= 65335:
print ‘UCS2 build’
else:
print ‘UCS4 build’