Oh freakin sweet!
[2006-05-08] After years of development this feature packed editor is waiting for you. For the impatient, go directly to the download page. For the curious, read the announcement. Happy Vimming! (Bram Moolenaar)
It sounds like there are a ton of new features and I’m probably going to spend all day setting up my environment.
Since the search for the error message didn’t come up with anything useful (cannot find -lqassistantclient – Google Search), the solution is to install the qt3-devel-doc rpm. This is unintuitive because libraries and headers are usually in an rpm that ends in -devel, but that’s life in Linux.
I am very interested in mesh networking, and it sounds like Macedonia is leading the way:
By using what is called mesh technology, Macedonia Connects is creating not wi-fi hot-spots, but hot-zones which stretch 15 kilometres over a city. Formerly part of Yugoslavia and previously better known as a potential ethnic trouble spot, Macedonia is now rapidly becoming a wi-fi hotspot.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click Online | Macedonia leads world with wi-fi
I hope they are successful, and they can share their experience in running the network with the rest of the world. I’d love to see a mesh covering all of Vancouver. I’m doing my part, but unfortunately I’m in a basement suite and there aren’t any other mesh nodes nearby. 
I just realized that I had a broken file that I was pointing to when I was talking about getting my Pundit-R’s ATI IXP9100 TV out working in Linux for my MythTV box.
The correct link is here: xorg.conf
Please note that this is for NTSC.
You also need to make changes to your bios: Go to Advanced->Chipset->Northbridge and choose TV only for your output. When rebooting, you should get the text on the TV, and it should also stay on the TV output when X starts.
Coolness! I’m constantly forgetting what the differences are between Linux and Windows, especially with cutting and pasting. This script provides a Linux style cut and paste with the mouse.
I haven’t seen any bugs yet, but I think the big test is going to be how it works when I’m playing UT2004 at lunch. 
Today I was chatting with Edward about wireless networking on #bcwireless, and it turns out he’s in the US Army, stationed in Iraq. Right now they use a mix of CAT5 and uncoordinated Wifi, but he’s hoping to get a mesh network going so everyone can share the bandwidth.
You’ll never see this in an MS document:
From Rusty’s Unreliable Guide To Locking:
Deadlocks are problematic, but not as bad as data corruption. Code which grabs a read lock, searches a list, fails to find what it wants, drops the read lock, grabs a write lock and inserts the object has a race condition.
If you don’t see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
Not many posts on my blog lately, first I got sick with the flu (which I’m sure I picked up from someone at the gym), then a week later I caught a cold. Missed 4 days of work over a 2 week period. Ouch. Good thing I had a lot of sick days saved up.
I’ve found an interesting occurence with my MythTV box. When I first put it together, shows were coming in fast and furious and I struggled to keep up with all of them. I felt bad when they expired without me watching them. Especially the movies/special. I was particularly mad when the A&E special on Eisenhower/D-Day got deleted.
Since I was sick, I got caught up on a lot of the shows. I watched Fat Man and Little Boy, Dr. Strangelove, a ton of CSI episodes, and some Law and Order.
And of course I was able to keep up with Conan, Leno, and the Daily Show.
So now I’ve reached an equilibrium with my shows, and the drive space is steady at about 100GB free/133gb total. It seems like the shows being recorded are coming in at a slower rate as well, to I’ll feel less pressure to keep up with the shows.
I would still like to expand the disk space in this machine, probably with a quad bay firewire enclosure, and starting with a single 200GB drive inside. Ideally I’d be able to store every single CSI, Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy episode, just in case. 
I was thinking last night, it would be pretty cool to make a mesh network with Linksys WRT54G running OpenWRT, where the routers are all mounted on some kind of robot, where they would repel each other to the point where signal strength started dropping off slightly.
Any new nodes that came online as users would cause the robots to move farther away from each other, making the network bigger as a result.
It would be a good Burning Man type of project.
Found this article on the O’Reilly blog site: Your personal information space (Dashboard and Beagle)
This is what I’ve been looking for for a long time. I’d love to be able to keep track of all my communications with people and have it link with the projects that I’ve worked on for/with them.
After a brief struggle with trying to compile it, I discovered that I needed to get the latest Mono rpms from go-mono.com. This is for a Suse 9.1 system that I keep up to date with apt.
It blows me away that underneath all the Mono architecture, they’re using Wine to run the dll’s. I’ll have to look into this more someday to see how they do it.
A bit more struggling, and I found some glib/gtk/pango rpms that actually work.
Now I think I have Beagle working, we’ll see if it works once it gets done indexing.
I don’t have all the hooks in yet, the most important one for me would be one to index my GMail account, but that doesn’t seem to exist yet.