Monthly Archive for July, 2003

MySQL Control Center

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on July 27, 2003
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I downloaded the mysqlcc source code, and thought I’d have a go at building
it with trolltech’s
Qt-3.2.0 (Qt/Mac Free.
Even though the page says the latest edition is 3.1.2, 3.2.0 is available for download.

Qt takes forever and a day to build on my powerbook g4, it also takes forever to build something which uses it, so most of the days was spent washing my car while the things compiled.

I did eventually get mysqlcc built, and it seems to work, but it crashes a lot while running and every time it exits. I think the exit crash has to do with the HotKey code, I’ll look at disabling that alltogether and see what happens.

If you want to have a look, you can download a 4.1Mb binary that I built today.
MD5 for the binary is: aec05d25efce0c05656a9c7a5c900212
The above link not working? Download mysqlcc/mac from this site
It was built with the 0.9.2 source release of mysqlcc and Qt/Mac Free 3.2.0.

My name has an apostrophe, update your computers please!!

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on July 22, 2003
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My name is O’Gorman, that is an apostrophe and a capital G. It is not Ogorman, nor is my middle initial O.

Tried to buy travel insurance today, it took 45 minutes before we gave up, the computer system the agent was using wouldn’t accept the apostrophe in my name. This is in Japan, they happily accept names requiring 2 byte fonts, but ‘ is unacceptable? I must admit that I’ve had this problem before, trying to give money to unicef Japan, it would not accept my name, but gave a useless error, because the apostrophe is used to delimit sql queries and the web designer never took into account that someone’s name may contain one.

It isn’t hard to do, it just requires a little thought on the part of the application designer, accept “odd” chars in names.

While I’m ranting, I may as well continue:

1) Do not ask for a zip/postal code and then validate the input against some US database, informing me uselessly that my (quite valid japanese code) is wrong.

2) If your company accepts international orders, use the same form for everyone, don’t make me go to some “special” page.

3) If you don’t accept international orders, tell me so before I get to the checkout page.
I’d better stop now, or I’ll be up half the night on this rant.

sodipodi works

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on July 13, 2003
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What a boring weekend! Spent the entire time building and rebuilding sodipodi to get it working with
Apple’s x11 and xfree86.

There were serious problems with libXft and fonts, had to hack the hell out of configure to get it working on Apple’s x11 (beta 3) because it does not have pkg-config files for xft, so configure wasn’t finding it, also had to change code which only allowed fonts with certain extensions to load. I know this sounds like something easy, and it was, but it took hours to figure out what the hell was going wrong, yet more hours to install apple’s x11 and another fink and yet more hours to build multiple times against both x11’s. What a pita.

So, because I spent so long messing with it, and because this site is seriously lacking in graphics, here is a screenie of sodipidi-0.32
running on Max OS X 10.2.6 with Apple’s x11 beta 3.
Screenshot of sodipodi

Fink Virtual Packages

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on July 7, 2003
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Well, I think the whole virtual package thing I committed yesterday has now been fixed
so that it should work regardless of what the user decides to do with their fink install.

I must thank Ben Hines for pointing out possible problems with my first commit. I hope I have fixed things to everyones satisfaction.

Tanabata

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on July 5, 2003
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Went to tanabata with Jessica today, first time to go, usually too busy
working. It was fun, don’t have any decent photos, so here is one from
earlier.

We had a lot of fun at tanabata though, Jessica won lots of goodies. She
had a great time, and went to bed much too late, but she ate yakisoba and
met a couple of hundred other little kids, so she had fun. I hope we
get to go again next year, maybe then I will not have to do all the
games for her, she ought to be able to do some of them herself.

Was embarrassed by missing a Depends on dlcompat-shlibs in the
dlcompat-dev splittoff today too…

 photograph of Peter and Jessica

Too Late

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on July 2, 2003
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Haha, should have gone to bed an hour ago (the times on this site are not
in any way related the the time in Japan, okay they seem to be 13 or so
hours behind Japan time, so I suppose that could count as a relation :-p).

Instead, I’ve been fiddling with colors wondering what color suits this
damn site best. What a waste of time, no wonder I haven’t been bothered to
update this website for 3 years.

I wish the libtool folks would commit the “-undefined dynamic_lookup”
changes to cvs, it was posted to them more than a week ago. It will make
two_level_namespace and prebinding so much easier to do.

I think we are getting there

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on July 2, 2003
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This seems to be a reasonable crappy blog style, using the default styles
downloaded from href=”http://www.blosxom.com/download.shtml”>blosxom

With a bit of luck I might keep this up and we will actually have some
content here in the next few days/weeks, so both you (the reader) and I
(the blogger) will be happy with it.

I should have been hacking at dpkg and fink instead of playing with this
darn blog, looks like that will not get finished tonight as I had hoped.