Archive for December, 2006

i hate you, debian packages

Friday, December 29th, 2006

After 3 hours of poking at samples and documentation and sleep deprivation, I now have a package containing… a changelog file.

Fuck!

(Update: got it working eventually, after scrapping all the files and rebuilding them with dh_make.)

bloggy blog

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

I tossed together a silly WordPress plugin to special-case links into my wiki pages such as my gimp mac helper tools, as well as to MediaWiki’s bug tracker (eg, bug 1) and SVN repository (r12345 was nice).

SVN anonymous checkout: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/silly-regex-linker/

Only useful if you’re me at the moment, but maybe I’ll generalize it for fun.

tee-hee!

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

wiki-ca-innocents.png

Black & White

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

it was xmas

SSHKeychain

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

For a long time I’ve found SSHKeychain an invaluable little app on my Macs, making remote logins with keys relatively painless.

When I upgraded to an Intel-based MacBook last month, I was saddened to find that there wasn’t a Universal release; the last PPC release didn’t run on Intel; and development seems to have stopped altogether. :(

The good news is that it’s open source, and further one of the last code checkins, early in 2006, had been to add Universal binary build support. So I went ahead and built the thing for my own use.

I did though find that it crashed intermittently when waking from sleep. After a little debugging I found the problem; some variables were initialized badly so if all your keychains were locked it would crash. Fun! Easy to fix, though.

I mailed the patch to the dormant developers mailing list and the author, hopefully it’ll get rolled in and other people will get to use it…


I love Wikipedia!