March 2009

Easy, Peasy, Pudding n' Pie

Submitted by illogic-al on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 21:19

Howdy do all you out there in interland. This one is mostly for A. L. to get her to stop pouting.
Today, boys and girls, I'll be speaking about macports. Macports is a ports-like package management thing for OS X. For all my arch linux peeps, it's like the AUR for PKGBUILDs, but you need privileges to check in. It's both easy to use and easy to break. Er, easy to contribute to I meant. These contributions are known as Portfiles; text files defining various things necessary to compile your software of interest.

Romans 12:14-21

Submitted by illogic-al on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 22:25

NetBible version:

14 Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited. 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people. 19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God's wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord. 20 Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head. 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Didst thou know?

Submitted by illogic-al on Sun, 03/22/2009 - 16:48

That compiling cocoa and qt3support in Qt 4.5 at the same time isn't possible. Yip. Currently Amarok 2 and kdegames are only things that don't crash when KDE is run with qt 4.5 + cocoa. Maybe Dolphin too.
That's all. Back to butchering the kde-mac site.

Lest ye forget

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 21:33

Make kde compile in macports in 10.4

Index: kde4-1.0.tcl
===================================================================
--- kde4-1.0.tcl (revision 47836)
+++ kde4-1.0.tcl (working copy)
@@ -31,31 +31,49 @@
# Use CMake Portgroup
PortGroup cmake 1.0

+# Pull in automoc build dependency. Needed by most/all KDE software.
depends_build-append port:automoc

+# Turn on parallel builds.
use_parallel_build yes

+# Create out of source build which KDE requires (and enforces).
worksrcdir build

Contribution

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 21:29

I was just thinking about all the projects I've contributed code to in the past and thinking, "Huh. That's quite a sizeable list."
The list goes something like this:

  • Enlightenment (0.16-ish)
  • Kicker
  • Amarok
  • Konversation
  • Qt
  • Kopete
  • Macports
  • Openbox (3-ish)
  • KDE (4.2-ish)

Koffice beta7 added to macports

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 15:54

'sudo port sync' then 'sudo port install/upgrade koffice-devel' to join the fun.
That is all.

Dear HR

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 14:48

I was going through stuff on my old macbook pro drive and I found this cover letter I wrote some time last year (possibly this time last year). I believe I sent it out in a form very similar, if not identical to what you'll see below. I don't remember why, but I was quite serious and if I'm not mistaken, someone from Cornell did call me for a phone interview. Just goes to show boys and girls, honesty ain't gonna kill yah (then again, no guarantees that it wont ...).

Countdown

Submitted by illogic-al on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 22:08

Last june I started a countdown to I don't know what. Today I think I've realized what it is. Graduate school. Again.
More at 10.

101 and counting...

And lest I forget... Judgement!

Submitted by illogic-al on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 23:16

So where were we? Ah yes, genocide against the Amalekites. I see what you did there. What you are doing is changing the argument to suit your conclusion or not understanding what you are arguing against. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say it's probably the latter. Do correct me if I'm wrong.