We have got to do something...
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:47:09 GMT | no comments
please watch this 2 hours movie.
and comment below about what WE can do.
How to not being forced to XOrg 7.1 on Gentoo
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:28:42 GMT | no comments
If you are like me, you like system that works and you care much more about the latest version of KDE than the latest version of XOrg. especially when updating KDE is pain-less and bug-free while XOrg means talking with God, backup-ing your Mother and what not.
So I wanted to be able to run
emerge -avUNt world
like everyone else, while staying on XOrg 6.9 Like you might know, the recent portage are not forcing us to do the update. you cannot run 'emerge world' without upgrading. and upgrading is far from being easy. While preventing portage from forcing is not as easy as it sound. It is not that hard. thanks to /etc/portage system.
here is how to do it.
- first add the following lines in /etc/portage/package.mask
### I dont want to update X >=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0 >=app-doc/doxygen-1.4.5 >=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.5.6 >=x11-libs/qt-4.1.4-r1 >=media-gfx/graphviz-1.16-r2 >=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.3 >=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r2 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver ### END
- then add the following line in /etc/portage/package.unmask
<x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0
after that you might get 1 or 2 more problem. I remember I also had to modify an ebuild and remove a useless dependency on a package. if it does not work for you. please comment below. I'm gonna help you to go through it and I'll update this post for a more accurate information.
have a nice day.
Nintendo World 2006 in Osaka, Japan (and japanese highways)
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:56:39 GMT | no comments
So I have finally been there, again. I was not too sure, since I knew it would be very similar but just busier then Nagoya. But Mihoko could not come to Nagoya, so she had not tried the Wii yet, poor girl. And I convincer her. Plus I really wanted to try few more games to help get my mind set on what to buy.
Actually there is something I think I forgot to tell you about Nagoya. I think I already told you I went to Nagoya by train or maybe some photos I took told you so. But there is one little thing I forgot to say, Is how many DS I saw in the Train. Although I had to cross two prefectures, from Minute One, I saw kids playing with the DS in the Train. I mean, there is always bunch of people with cellphones, PSP and DS. but that day. it was impressive. Closer I was getting to Nagoya, more DS, geeks and even female geeks are boarding the train. This was cool to see. Girls playing DS in the train have a different dress code. I'll let your imagination craving and not say more.
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Nintendo World 2006 in Nagoya, Japan
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:59:30 GMT | 1 comment
So, last Friday I realized a long time dream I had. Going to a video game expo, in Japan. It's one of those reasons I'm in Japan, and Nagoya is only 1h15 and 1620 yen of train away, how could I not go.
The event was from 9am to 4pm and I was pretty excited so I took the train as early as possible. Going there was pretty easy, even though it was my first time visiting Nagoya. I got there around 9h30, had breakfast at the station and the first train on Aonami line was leaving at 10am. so It was a perfect timing. 10h30, I was sure inside. That's about the best I could do.
First thing I learned when I got inside... They were giving away 100 Wii to the visitors. We receive some kind of lottery number when we arrive and we can check if we have a winner number as we leaves. Now I was excited, hehe...
read on for details ....
Bad programming practices(tm)
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:01:00 GMT | no comments
Your coming into a forum or an IRC channel, you ask a simple question, yet uncommon. and people are screaming. “Stop, Don’t do it!”, “it’s evil”, “these are bad programming practices, prove me you can’t do without”. And such, before you had time to say more than two lines.
But why is everyone trying to preach absolutely nothing without knowing a thing. They have no clue what I am working on. What would I do with this bit of information and what particular problem I’m trying to solve. but yet, they know it’s evil and I should not do it. Hell, I’m not even sure what I’m gonna do yet. I’m looking for different solutions. What exactly is evil? I have not thought of anything yet.
for people who know C and used to pointer basics have a quick look at the following example.
void foo(&var) {
var = 42;
}
x = 0;
printf("%d\n", x);
foo(x);
printf("%d\n", x);
I was simply asking if passing a variable by reference in such a way would also be possible in Ruby. I have been refered, among other things, to an excellent page documenting Ruby bindings. I am not sure yet if bindings is the only way to go in order to achieve something as simple as this. but what I do know, though: “ITS EVIL”...
actually, I knew Ruby bindings before. But I wanted to use something simpler, more embedded into the syntax. I thought hearing something different, more C-like that I could use. but getting actual help through all the flames was a challenge on its own. so it’s all I got.
yet, I’m not sure I’ll use it for my particular problem, for one, I was looking for something different and for two, well, its EVIL apprently. And god knows I don’t do EVIL ;)
I got another example, this one happen few months ago. I’m heading into the ruby channel again asking for a ruby+japanese related questions. no anwser, total silent. I figured nobody knows as they are almost all english and don’t deal with japanese stuff. but since Ruby programming language in born in Japan and the japanese community is quite active, I thought asking in Japanese. suddenly I got an answer.
the first one, in japanese was simply answering my question. politely and perfectly. the second one? just english screaming. “This is an english channel, talk in english, this is not a japanese or internation channel, stop, its EVIL.”
god, what the hell. you use computers and ruby you should at least appreciate the multi-cultural side the internet offers us. well, he was probably scared I was flaming about his grand-mother. what else could I think?
anyone has a decent explanation for such behavours? am I the one who is weird/wrong?
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