moving parts of the kasper clan

FINALLY took a couple of hours late, late, late tonight and looked at the pesky little kpilot bug which caused a nasty little SIGSEGV with the vcal-conduitbase::slotProcess code during a “copy handheld to PC” sync. Turns out there was a single missing set for the fNextState in the case of ConduitAction::SyncMode::eCopyHHToPC, which as luck would have it, is exactly what I was trying to do.

So, yay me on fixing that annoying buglet which was niggling at the back of my brain for the last couple of months.

Secondarily, one of: gdb, PowerPC Linux, AAP sucks donkey elbows with regards to trying to debug this problem I was having. I could not for the life of me attach gdb to kpilot’s pid and get it to give me a decent backtrace, nor could I get it to set a breakpoint inside the source code for kpilot’s conduit libraries!@#$@#$%!!!!! I swear this used to be possible!

Tertiarily (?), both Eclipse 3.2/CDT and Kdevelop crash ENTIRELY too often for me, making them both just about darned un-useful. Had to revert to using vi and std::cout to track down this buglet!! And I was SO hopeful that CDT would finally give me a good IDE for C++, but either I’m doing something stupid or it’s still not able to resolve declarations and definitions on a consistent, useful basis.

So, in summation:

• Darnit, it feels REALLY good to get a chance to code on KDE again!
• Darnit, it was frustrating to have Eclipse/CDT and Kdevelop crash so stinking much on me
• Darnit, it’s late!

Good night, Gracie.

the w’s - fourth from the last, originally uploaded by vanRijn.

If for no other reason than the amazingly cool, self-deprecating, ska/punk album cover, you have GOT to love this one!! =;)

I need to start keeping track of these things more.  Or rather, I need to just do them when I should instead of waiting for 6 months to realize the improvement.

Top on my list today was finally drilling a hole through the pressure-reducing valve in the stupid, way-overpriced burst-proof washing machine hoses that I bought from Lowes 6 months ago, on the advice of our home inspector.

Let me just put it this way… it was taking more than a half-hour to fill up the washing machine tub with water when we washed our clothes.

For SIX months we lived like this.

So, today, with the encouragement of a fellow house-hacker, I finally drilled through this more-intelligent-than-me contraption, hooked the hoses up and enjoyed a normal clothes-washing experience.  Gotta stop waiting so long to do stuff like this!  =:/

I suck.

I have 569 unread e-mails from the KDE mailing lists.

I’ve actually found a new buglet today with kpilot’s copyPCtoHH functionality and I probably won’t even have time to look into it for who knows how long.

I rented Splinter Cell Essentials for the PSP and I’ve had enough time to play it once, for about 10 minutes in the last 5 days.

Blargh! =:(