The short-form week of 15–21 Dec 2008
22 Dec 2008; last modified 13 Mar 2011
The week in review, 140 characters at a time. This week, 18 messages in 16 conversations.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
Monday at 08:33am
CentOS box. Dyn DNS .118 works. Static .201 does not. All else the same afaict. Anyone
got a clue-by-four?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:52am
A car just spun out of control in front of our house. At times like this I wish I
had snow tires and chains. :(—@Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life But at least now you know you should WFH today :-)—@ndw
Monday at 02:46pm
The Ubuntu 8.10 desktop wallpaper is gorgeous—@ndw
Monday at 03:41pm
Bah humbug. Hardy Heron doesn't configure X11 properly. Fiesty did just fine. CentOS
does just fine. Dagnabit.—@ndw
Monday at 03:41pm
Or whatever animal 8.10 is, anyway—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:10pm
Calling Ubuntu 8.10 fail, trying 7.10 instead.—@ndw
@ndw depending on your reasons for calling 8.10 fail, you might want to try #! http://crunchbanglinux.org/—@pfhawkins
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:37pm
Yes, Ubuntu 7.10 installs X11 correctly.—@ndw
@ndw *7*.10?—@robertbrook
@robertbrook Yes. 8.10 looks ok on the live CD, but when it installs, X doesn't work. 7.10 works
just fine.—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:29am
Pondering the significance of SEQUENCE in iCal files—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:11pm
Java is 13 yrs old, XML 10. Why is it still so awkward/irritating to deal with X from
J? Gag me with a DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().—@timbray
Wednesday at 04:46pm
Trying to get inline PDF preview working on three browsers across at least two OS.
Just shoot me, please.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:56pm
Back on the phone again.—@ndw
Thursday at 09:33pm
All hail the value of regression test suites—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:25am
Android Diary I: http://tinyurl.com/4vdau7—@timbray
Friday at 09:52am
RT @xmlcalabash XML Calabash 0.9.3 released—@ndw
Friday at 11:50am
Sunday at 03:52pm
Latest mt-daapd transcodes. Sweet. No more ripping flac to mp3 just for stupid iTunes—@ndw