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Trying to get SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v9 to play nicely with VMWare 4.5 is a fun game.
Firstly it seems that you have to turn off SELinux as per the VMWare KnowledgeBase.
Secondly you have to apply some hackery to get the vmhgfs kernel module to compile as per Stefan Lasiewski’s instructions. Not only that, though - I had to copy a bunch of files from /usr/src/linux-[currentver]-obj to /usr/src/linux-[currentver], or the vmware-config-tools.pl script would continue to fail, even though I could successfully compile the kernel module in /tmp without using the script… “go figure”.
Anyway, Shared Folders now seem to work.
[yes, yes, I know VMWare 5 is out. I imagine it doesn’t suffer from this problem. I had to use 4.5 for the project I’m working on.]
Contrast and UI
I had struggled for a long time to understand why some of the bold labels in the GnomeSword dialogs and windows appeared grey, and others appeared black.
Now, James Cape has provided a (possible) answer. I need to go away and look at code in order to prove whether this really is the reason. behind it, or whether I am deluding myself.
Update: it seems that this is a theme thing. Quick! Someone fix GTK+ 
A camera
The 350D continues to impress me. Still haven’t got any photos to show off online but I am in the process of creating a physical gallery in our hallway. The tripod arrived today.
It seems gphoto2 support is still progressing.
Resurrection
The Glaxium project now has a new home (and here is the old home). No full website as yet, and no releases. The code in CVS is simply a copy of the 0.5 version which was the last official release before it became unmaintained.
A brief overview of plans:
More to come, as usual.
I am now getting into DSLR photography with a Canon EOS 350D.
Very very nice piece of kit so far, and a major step up from the Fuji Finepix 4700 Zoom which has served for the past 4 years.
One of the issues I have run into is the Linux integration. So far I have submitted some information to the gPhoto developers to help them get the correct USB IDs in for support of the camera. Unfortunately I haven’t managed to install and test the CVS version yet and am waiting for a 2.1.6 release which I can install as an RPM. I also discovered some interesting behaviour of my Dane-Elec SmartMedia/CompactFlash reader with FC3 (i.e. it gets very upset when mounting / unmounting media - so much that I had to reboot to get USB hotplug to respond again). So things are a little lacking on this front so far.
More soon…
powermated-0.3.3 was just released.
It sounds like beep media player does not support some of the control functions offered by XMMS, and by all accounts the developers are not really interested in fixing the problems, so the new seek functionality is only available with the XMMS plugin. I’m still incredibly grateful to Tim for persevering with BMP support.
There was a tiny problem compiling 0.3.3 with BMP support as released - a patch has gone in already, but just in case:
— powermated/XMMSControl.cpp 27 Feb 2005 00:33:40 -0000 1.3
+++ powermated/XMMSControl.cpp 3 Mar 2005 09:47:05 -0000
@@ -210,9 +210,12 @@
if (!initXMMSControl(m_Launch))
return false;+#ifdef MONITOR_XMMS
xmms_remote_seek(m_Session, Offset);
-
return true;
+#else
+ return true;
+#endif
}int XMMSControl::XMMSGetOutputTime() {
Update: 0.3.4 contains this fix.
Update on the update: … but there’s another bug in 0.3.4 - the default monitor always gets reset to CPU even if overridden with an options file. There’s a fix in CVS.
Updated update on the update: All fixed in 0.3.5 … we think …
This Newsforge article goes several steps further than my blog post on the topic of graphics apps on Linux back in September.
I’m not sure I agree with all of the conclusions - does the Gimp really need to split into two applications, one for simple icon editing and another for more major graphics work? I certainly miss a simple icon editor, but should it be based on the Gimp? I stand by my original comments that the major graphics apps should work more closely together to unify UIs and approaches as a first step.
Bit late with this whole wave (a bunch of people did this on Planet GNOME sometime last year) but I came across it again on John Fleck’s blog recently:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
The nearest book to me is The UML Reference Manual (Rumbaugh / Jacobson / Booch).
We expect that editing tools will extend the notation to a screen format, including such things as the use of fonts and color to highlight items; the ability to easily suppress and filter items that are not currently of interest, to zoom into a diagram to show nested elements, to traverse hot links to other models or views; and animation.
Upgraded to WordPress 1.5 using the RPMs from wumple.com.
All pretty smooth:
mysqldump --add-drop-table -h localhost -u mydbuser -p mywpdb| bzip2 -c > blog.bak.sql.bz2Theming remains to be done. As it is, the new default template does look nice, and the admin screens are a whole lot easier to use.
I’ve re-enabled commenting as an experiment, and blacklisted a whole series of words. I may have to go back and stop it if the same problems arise as last time.
Now to go looking for plugins
I noticed that WordPress 1.5 came out, with sufficiently little fanfare that I didn’t realise until I read about someone else upgrading.
I’ve been installing from RPMs, but none were available. So I posted a comment to Jason Spangler’s blog, and he was good enough to build some new packages for the latest version.
For previous versions I’ve suggested changes to the wordpress.conf file. I’ll look later to see if they ever got incorporated into the packages.
Guess I’ll think about upgrading this weekend.
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