Category: Life in General

I’ve been looking for a way to have VIM functionality inside Eclipse for a long time. SlickEdit has it, sort of, but it’s prohibitively expensive and ugly. And then I saw this nifty little vimplugin sourceforge project and got my hopes all up. Sadly, it’s not quite there yet. After figuring out how to associate *.cc files to the Vim plugin (note to vimplugin guys: Maybe stick a README or some docs on how to use the plugin in the tarball?), I saw that I was unable to open more than one VIM tab in Eclipse at a time. In addition, there is no contextual/outline view associated to the code once you’re in the VIM editor as there is with Read more…

I ran across this on Planet Gnome… Openbox 3.4.6 and ObConf 2.0.3 released Feb 02, 2008 – 12:53 pm EST Openbox 3.4.6 and ObConf 2.0.3 have been released for mass consumption! This Openbox release introduces a new look! The Clearlooks theme has been updated to match the latest GTK Clearlooks engine. As well Openbox and ObConf are both sporting shiny new icons. Wow! That takes me back a ways!! Openbox was a fork started by the supremely-talented Ben Jansens (oh x0r, where have you gone?) and a couple of other talented guys who used to be hardcore blackbox dudes. I had no idea Openbox was still being developed! Rock on, guys! =:)

It actually felt pretty good to “unplug”, as it was put in The Matrix, and allow my brain to focus on nothing other than family, video games, and good old-fashioned American football today. I just realized today that I’ve not had an truly restful weekend in about 3 months, what with new job, travelling, trying to sell a house, realtor-ish stuff, miscellaneous stress, etc. So it was a nice break from overwhelming life today. Since I’ve not watched football (or much of TV at all) since last year’s Charger’s game, we didn’t even know who (other than the Patriots) were playing today. But we decided to root for the underdogs (The Giants), and it was a very exciting game! I Read more…

4 KDE Geeks on a San Francisco Walkabout Originally uploaded by vanRijn This was at the start of our 3 hour tour, which led us from 3rd and Market street, to Fort Mason, to Fisherman’s Wharf, then back by trolley (!) to 3rd and Market. Man, I’m tired! Left to right: me, Thiago, Helio, and Adriaan.

No more need be said. =:)

Okay, seriously, KDE4 is really, really nice. I had been running from svn for the last few months and things tend to get crufty after a while of that… Unless you do a full uninstall and reinstall between weeks, things just kind of get progressively worse. Files get moved, libraries change names, you end up with broken stuff, etc., etc. So I just started clean and rm -rf’d ~/.kde4, rm -rf’d my local kde4 installation, and used OpenSUSE’s excellent KDE4 repository for all of the KDE4 packages. WOW! Clean, neat, nice, totally functional, wow, wow, wow! Excellent work, all involved! And, best of all, we finally got mouse cursor changes to work without having to restart X!!!  Holy COW! I Read more…

Congratulations, everyone!! Awesome work!! Also, Lubos has done up a really nice write-up on KWin4’s features, setup, technical explanation, why KWin4 didn’t use Compiz, etc., etc. And I totally agree, Lubos, your release notes are far more important than the nifty KWin compositing showcast video! =:)

There is so much health stuff in the news these days and it is soooo expensive. Try these simple home remedies instead. Avoid cutting yourself slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold while you chop. Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by using the shower. Going in the yard works too. For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins Remember to use timer. A mouse trap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxative. Read more…