I’ve finally made the migration away from make and the horrible system of autofoo and Makefiles. A few years ago I discovered a build system called waf that does everything make can do, only better!
May 30, 2009: One Saturday morning Rachael and I headed up above Fort Collins so I could do some bouldering. I’ve been meaning to post this since that morning and much later (4 months later!) I finally got around to throwing these pictures up and writing about the morning.
Rachael’s stuffed peppers are fantastic! Though apparently this is a simplified version of her mom’s recipe which is even more delicious. Pretty fast dish, great for times when you find peppers on sale.
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Just found that the Fort Collins REI is having the fall Garage Sale on October 3, 2009. I’m definitely going! I probably won’t go as crazy as I did in June (I think I spent way to much…), but I’ll definitely be looking for some good deals on clothing and gear. Maybe I’ll see you there!
Late Update (2009-11-28 12:27): Here’s a picture of the items I ended up picking up:
Gear from REI Garage Sale (October 2009)
I was hoping for some clothes and found some, but not exactly what I was looking for. I picked up a new pair of Keen’s as my previous pair was falling apart. I also found a great pair of waterproof boots that were marked down quite a bit. Finally, there’s a pair of pants that were really cheap.
I has always bothered me that Gnome’s document viewer, evince, doesn’t show up in the Gnome menus or in Gnome-Do when I type evince. I did a bit of searching and discovered that this is because the evince .desktop files have the property NoDisplay=true in them. Apparently this tells Gnome to ignore this application for display purposes (in menus, dialogs, gnome-do, etc.). I changed this property to false and am waiting for whatever .desktop cache there is to update. I’ll update this post if this actually worked for me. I hope it does, being able to launch evince with one command in Gnome-Do would be wonderful.
I found this bug and this discussion of why NoDisplay is set to true.
Update (2009-9-27 19:13): After waiting for a while to see if evince would ever show up in the menus/gnome-do, it appears that this ‘fix’ doesn’t work. I’m not willing to put more time into this, so my current work-around is to open a directory with the pdf of interest and open the file that way. Not my preferred workflow, but it gets the job done.
Update (2009-10-7 08:46): A commenter suggested removing the NoDisplay line altogether. I’ve commented these lines out in the files /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop and /usr/share/app-install/desktop/evince.desktop. I’ll leave it like that and see if an entry for Evince shows up anwhere. I’ve actually gotten into the habbit of opening a directory in Nautilus and opening the document in question from there. If this works though, I’ll have multiple ways of doing what I want.
Update (2009-10-10 07:34): Removing the lines didn’t help. Looks like I’ll just continue using the ‘Open in Nautilus’ method.
Rachael made this questionably 7-layer dip for our engagement party. It must have been pretty tasty as it went quick and we had none left over after the party.
I’ve added two new picture sets to my gallery. First is a set of shots from when Rachael and I previewed our future wedding location at the Crystal Rose on lookout mountain. The other album is a set of pictures from our engagement party this past Saturday. Check ‘em out if you’re interested. Cheers!
I’m finally happy with my HTPC project. I’ve got all my movies, videos, pictures, and music on the 1.5TB hardware RAID5 that I setup (3x 750gb WD Caviar Blacks). I can watch, record, and timeshift TV. It’s working great! I’m actually quite happy with Windows 7 (surprisingly). Only a few problems remain…
I’m using my Windows 7 machine as a file server in addition to it being my Media Center. I’m mounting a Samba (smb) share using CIFS from my Linux server so I can synchronize files using rsync. However, I ran into a problem after using the mounted share for a small amount of time. I found a simple solution after a bit of research.
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I recently upgraded to Windows 7, mainly for the upgrades to Windows Media Center. One problem I discovered was with digital audio from HD channels and DVDs/Blu-Ray discs. I wasn’t able to control the volume using the media center volume (system volume). I could only adjust the volume on my stereo. I found an article on the Hack Windows 7 Media Center site that discusses how to pipe all audio through AC3Filter to enable adjusting gain and using an equalizer before the audio is output from the machine.
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