Stuff I've been up to

[giza]

• While trying to set up Drupal for my future website, I encounting some bugs in code that appears to have not been tested. So I spent a couple of nights writing and posting diffs to their bugtracking system.
  
  
• I found out why my Macs were crashing. Check this out:
  
  pardine:~ doug$ strings /Applications/GLterm.app/Contents/MacOS/GLterm |grep kill
  SThere are still terminal(s) open, quitting now will kill any remaining active jobs.)Could not locate a suitable default shell
  kill SIGKILL
  
  
  Yes, you read that right. For reasons unknown, GLTerm has a referece to SIGKILL in its code. Furthermore, I checked the date on Library/Preference/com.buserror.GLterm.plist on both machines. The dates on each machine correspond to the dates that I started having those problems. Once I stopped using GLterm, the problems went away. I can only assume that, for reasons unknown, GLterm was killing off other processes. I have no idea why it's doing that.
  
  
• And with one Mac problem fixed, another surfaces. A few months ago, my iMac took to rebooting itself once or twice a week. The problem went away, and then came back this week, rebooting itself every few hours. Just on a hunch, I went into the Power Management control panel and unchecked the box that said "restart after a power failure". Sure enough, the machine just turns itself off now. Not in an orderly way, either. The just goes black and the machine suddenly stops. Just today, it started doing this after 5-10 minutes, making the machine virtually useless. I can only assume that either my power supply or mainboard has gone bad. I'll be dropping it off at the Apple Store tomorrow to get looked at.
  
  
• I saw the movie Brokeback Mountain the other day. If there's one movie I'd see this year, this one would probably be it. It was your basic love story, excent that it involved two gay cowboys. It covered their lives as they each married women and started their own family, yet had strong feelings for each other.
  
  I really think that the movie transcends gender and sexual orientation, though. I think it explores concepts such as getting into a situation that you want to get out of, but don't know how to. I think it explores the concept of "forbidden love", love which is "not allowed", whether it be by society, parents, or circumstances.
  
  
• One of my co-workers reads Bob Aspirin's books. When I mentioned his connection to the Dorsai, another co-worker piped up. Apparently he is familliar with the Dorsai. Then there's the third co-worker who attended Anthrocon a few years ago. o.O
  
  

That's all for now.

-- Doug

Comments

[redrob.livejournal.com]

Don't the Dorsai Irregulars do security for AnthroCon? Or was that your point?

Alex

[giza.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was my point. :-)