Monthly Archives: January 2006

Importance of warnings

Posted on January 31, 2006 by flameeyes

I think I already talked about the importance of warnings while programming, if I didn’t, I surely thought of doing so. Today, I was reading michkap blog and I found this entry quite interesting (for the one who’re wondering, yeah … Continue reading →

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Another linking test

Posted on January 30, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay after my –as-needed experiment proved not so bad (well a part many GNOME packages and MySQL and so on), I looked forward for something new to test that was conservative enough but still a good deal, and I ended … Continue reading →

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Writing guides…

Posted on January 30, 2006 by flameeyes

It’s probably one of the most annoying things in the world. But it’s also one of the most useful. That’s at least what I think. I started some time ago by writing maintainers’ guides to my packages, so that people … Continue reading →

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Hack of the night

Posted on January 30, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay it’s sunday night, and I’m at home. I don’t have anything to do a part the infamous paid job that’s driving me crazy and I’m waiting new info for. So what can I do? I can try to fix … Continue reading →

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I’m about to cry for the joy…

Posted on January 29, 2006 by flameeyes

… of finally having decent versions of xine-lib and xine-ui in tree Since I joined and started taking care of xine, version 1_rc8 had to stay in the tree because it was last stable version on mips arch, and after … Continue reading →

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VMWare, kernel and GCC 4.1

Posted on January 26, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay this might be of help to who wants to try GCC 4.1 and uses VMWare (I’m actually running the 30 days evaluation license, as I hope to stop using Windows before it expires anyway ), as the modules as … Continue reading →

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A few updates

Posted on January 26, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay, this is just an update post to make sure that nobody thinks that I’m disappeared First of all, I’d like to inform all xine users that I’ve called arches to stable xine-ui 0.99.4, so soon it will hopefully be … Continue reading →

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Interesting compilers’ stats

Posted on January 24, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay, after Sebastian, I also wanted to move to GCC 4.1 and see how it was, last time it wasn’t so likely to go along with KDE. From a feasibility of its use, it’s surely improved: KDE doesn’t get killed … Continue reading →

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Bit of inactivity

Posted on January 23, 2006 by flameeyes

So, I’m taking a bit of inactivity time now. The reason is that I found a paid job that is going to take me lot of time. I’ll still be around for urgent things, but I’ll be a bit less … Continue reading →

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A gift to who?

Posted on January 20, 2006 by flameeyes

I’ve read an interesting post of Hubert Figuiere (note: SPAM protection doesn’t allow me to point you to the right post, sorry ) tonight in Planet GNOME, and I’d like to leave a couple of comments about that. While I … Continue reading →

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