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Monthly Archives March 2008

GTK+, GTKmm, autotools, and your first simple app in C++

I’ve been playing with GTKmm, writing some code to see how to do GUI apps in GTKmm and see how easy it is. Its not too bad, there are some gotchas. This is what I’ve learned so far. I’ll post it as a kind of a tutorial, maybe it will help someone else. Firstly, I’d like [...]

Posted 30 March 2008 † chrome § Tech Stuff ‡ Comments (0) °

Apple to offer all-you-can-eat iTunes store?

I was remarking to a friend the other night that the media industry needs to move to a subscription model if they want to survive. Ars has posted an interesting article about such a possibility. Go read it.

Posted 20 March 2008 † chrome § Tech Stuff ‡ Comments (0) °

Firefox 3 b4 Doesn’t Suck

I’ve been tracking the Minefield build of Firefox 3 for the past few months. As each beta would come out, I’d download it, try it for a few days and then go back to Safari. Main reasons? The native controls work wasn’t finished, and it looked like a frankenstein monster. (Not that I have anything against [...]

Posted 17 March 2008 † chrome § Tech Stuff ‡ Comments (1) °

The Law of System Maintenance Neglect

While working on a dying solaris 8 box that probably hasn’t had a decent amount of maintenance done to it in, ooh, maybe 6 years, it occurred to me that in most companies you’ll generally find that the oldest, shittiest, cruftiest box also happens to be the companies most critical important machine. In fact usually you’ll [...]

Posted 12 March 2008 † chrome § Tech Stuff ‡ Comments (0) °

A major milestone

I know I keep going on and on about my diet, but I really must record this for posterity. Today, I reached the under 120kg milestone: This is huge for me; this brings me back to about 5 years ago weight wise. I’ll be working just as hard over the next 5-6 months and try to [...]

Posted 11 March 2008 † chrome § Tech Stuff ‡ Comments (0) °