guile
Fair warning to people playing with guile under
Red Hat Linux 7.2,
their guile build doesn't include threading support. I've
filed a bugzilla
issue about it, hopefully they'll include that in newer
builds (it's not like it's tough to add ;-).
You can take this to understand that I'm back
into relearning Scheme.
;-) I really do enjoy working in this language; I became
attached to the programming syntax back in the good 'ol
days of building LPmuds
(specifically, the "closure" syntax introduced into
Jörn Rennekes' (Amylaar) branch of LPmud, and carried
on into LDmud
headed by Lars Düning). Most people swore at it,
claiming it was the ugliest thing they'd ever seen.
;-)
My current scheme problem is getting (accept) to
work in non-blocking mode (for which I can find no
documentation, other than the latest CVS
checkout of the reference guide, which doesn't mention
anything about getting an error of "ERROR: Resource
temporarily unavailable" in accept when O_NONBLOCK is
set.
Mach64 DRI
I have a laptop. It has an ATI Rage Mobility
video chipset (aka mach64). While X works like a champ, no
3d accelleration is possible without pulling an in-progress
development branch out of DRI CVS and whacking it into
working. No luck so far. :-( The kernel module loads up
fine, but now my re-built X server refuses to launch
because of a symbol problem (identified by Mike
Harris, although building with -fno-merge-constants
still seems to be giving problems; need to make sure that
the entire build is applying that gcc option). I have the
beginnings of a HOWTO written for this; I'll publish it as
soon as I actually have one that tells you how to
build the damn thing and make it work. ;-)
AOL
to acquire Red Hat?
$DEITY help us. At least Alan Cox is against
it.
Movies
Unless you're one of those people whose eyes
glaze over at the mention of subtitles, go see Amelie. It really
is a fun story of turning love into a grand game, of
suicidal goldfish, of travelling garden gnomes, and of all
manner of wacky stuff. Great film.