Saw The Who play at Beaulieu last Monday. They were awesome :)And it was nice seeing them play live when they’re in their 60s- but they weren’t exactly moving around the stage all that fast ;)They played all the songs I like except for Magic Bus, which according to my CD inlay their guitarist doesn’t like to play live as it’s just the same chord- lol.If you want to see them, there are a few dates left on their 2006 European tour.
Ever since I first got my AMD64 box one think always annoyed me- my on-board VIA velocity didn’t work with ifplugd or netplug as it always thought there was a cable plugged in. This was less than optimal as with the new coldplug functionality in baselayout it started by default and tried to get a DHCP lease by default.
So I finally got of my lazy rear end and filed a kernel bug.
Everyone should know about grep. Most of the time it’s used for testing the existence of a specific regex pattern somewhere. baselayout uses grep frequently for many tasks like so :-
grep-q '^envID:[/proc/self/status Did you know that bash can do this without the use of grep? Here’s how …
[[ $'\n'$(/proc/self/status) =~ $'\n''envID:[[:space:]([:space:]]*[1-9]')]*[](1-9]')] (NOTE: everything that matches the regex is now in the array BASH_REMATCH)
One important point is that the file is read as one big string, so the ^ $ anchors don’t work in the same way as they now point to the start and end of the file.
Notified the local Registrar of my intention to marry Abbey …… was strange :OFelt weird walking back to the car as its sort of becoming more and more official!
So spyderous has been spouting the virtues of the new r200 and r300 stuff in xorg-7.1, so I finally decided to give it a whirl. Thanks to the new modular structure of X, the upgrade went very fast. Everthing was very peachy up until the starting any OpenGL application as it gave me a ton of errors in dmesg like so
[drm:r300_emit_3d_load_vbpntr] *ERROR* Offset failed range check (k=0 i=2) while processing 3D_LOAD_VBPNTR packet.
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