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So I spent some time this week bumping the Thunderbird in rawhide to 1.5 beta 1. Finally it got it through the build system for our supported platforms. It hits stores tomorrow. Get it while its hot.
In every shot, show a little improvement!
Update on the CVS tagging issue, Chase has updated the tag to contain the missing files. Thanks!
We're gonna need a montage
Looks like the FIREFOX_1_0_7_RELEASE tag is missing files. Yay. People relying on source now have no real means of getting it other than checking out the latest branch tags. Yet another release where the handling of source has been less than desirable. Today is going to be fun on my end. I've asked previously what the checkout should look like so I could provide a script to do the tag and source tarball creation. Looks like the answer is 911 times 2356. "911 times 2356? My God, that's... I don't even know what that is!" "Nobody does."
Why do you do 99% of the stupid things you do?
| Coke | 1.99 |
| Cowboy Sirloin | 16.99 |
| Shredded Cheddar | 0.50 |
| Bacon Bits | 0.50 |
| 16oz Fort Worth Ribeye | 17.99 |
| Complete Subtotal | 37.97 |
| Satisfy | -20.00 |
| Subtotal | 17.97 |
| Tax | 1.44 |
| Total | 19.41 |
Recipe for awesome time:
- Go to Texas Roadhouse.
- Pick out the exact steak you want from their public display ($29.99 filet).
- Wait 20 minutes.
- Get the wrong type of steak ($17.99 ribeye).
- Send it back.
- Have the manager bring the correct steak.
- Cut into it.
- Send it back because it's rare instead of medium.
- Get an overcooked steak back.
- Have the manager apologize and offer half off the steak.
- Receive the bill.
- Pay with credit card.
- Try to sign receipt, with a pen that doesn't work.
All in all, it was pretty awesome. Not only is a $20 discount not half off the steak I ordered, its also more than the steak they (mistakenly) charged me for cost. They charged clee for cheddar and bacon which he never received. Additionally, topping off the insanity, a friend called during dinner to say they forgot their keys in clee's apartment last time they were over. What an awesome chain of events.
You've got red on you
Wow, I just took a look back and noticed that as of right now, the last 12 commits to NetworkManager are from yours truly. Most of the files in CVS were last modified by me, too. That doesn't seem natural.
Of note, I landed a patch which makes NM act saner with certain APs. I recently had to connect to a 'linksys' network. Since then, I've been randomly auto-connecting to other 'linksys' networks. These ESSIDs are pretty much always separate networks that haven't been configured properly. For example, there is a linksys network near the front door of my building, before I reach my apartment. I get in range of that before I reach my place, and usually am connected to linksys instead of my network. So I fixed NM to treat each AP with an ESSID of 'linksys' (and a few others) as different networks unless the MAC of the AP matches one you've previously connected to. The result? Win.
This thing is almost becoming usable!
Does it come in black?
I spent a good portion of my time yesterday working on getting Firefox 1.5 beta1 packaged for rawhide. It's building now (except for PPC64 which strangely, it still dies on even though mozilla seems to build fine), and should make it into tomorrow's rawhide compose.
I am looking for feedback on this build, with a focus on SVG rendering. We're interested in feedback here. Please file issues in bugzilla.
Also, happy birthday, dad.
Reading Material
Way to go, Jeremy. You caused Planet Fedora to break a little bit. You insensitive clod! Anyway, shame on me for assuming people titled their blog entries. I've fixed that up, and have made it so that now your posts are labelled "Untitled Post" (at least the ones that meet said criterion). Also managed to somewhat reduce the size of the generated pages (by about 5%). Yay.
My, what big packages you have!
So I managed to get out firedrill updates for the mozilla and firefox bug pretty quickly yesterday. For those who are thinking of asking, don't worry, several people already have. Yes, thunderbird will get a new RPM soon. But unless you have went through the trouble of enabling IDN support in it, you aren't vulnerable. Move along, nothing to see.
I'll get 1.5 Beta packages out the door next week, as well, for the curious.
Connecting
Connecting to VPN just got sexier. The totally sweet new "VPN Connecting" icons for NetworkManager are courtesy of Diana. Thanks! I checked in the code to support the new icons last night. Check it out in CVS (pun not intended -- or was it?). I've posted a few of them below, but it looks much better while its actually connecting. I wonder if sysadmins will notice people connecting/disconnecting more frequently....
Less is More Bettar
<@dcbw> caillon: but anything that's a net _loss_ of LOC in the applet is good :)
<@clee> dcbw: from the patches I've seen, caillon is removing code at a scary rate.
<@dcbw> clee: yeah, soon the applet will be 500 LOC and still do everything it does today
Accessing Points
So, I stayed up late last night working on some stuff to make me happier with NetworkManager. After a bit of hacking, and kicking off a new build, my commute to work today the first time EVER where I've been able to disconnect from my AP at home, leave the laptop on, drive to work, and have it automatically connected when I'm at work. Normally, I have to dismiss a dialog and rescan things. I landed two patches to NM this afternoon, and working on another patch to make scanning behave better and fix some braindead UI crap. Having networking "just work" though is going to make my mornings so much more pleasant.
Upgrades
diffstat is such a cool utility. Especially when it tells you things like: 12 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 292 deletions(-) and things seem to be working better than pre-patch.
