Entries from July 2005 ↓

So Donny’s in town and Tim came up but we never ended up finding Donny, Figgy, and dowem. Which is weak. We still made a good run of it and drinking our share.
I relisted my mac on ebay today. It already sold on ebay once but it turned out the guy that won used someone elses paypal account. Good thing I didn’t ship it. You can see there new auction here . Since I’m transfering all my files over to my Linux Desktop I had a small problem. OS X leaves .DS_Store files everywhere. I wrote a python script to clean them out.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, os.path

fsbranch = ‘/home/matthew/Desktop/Media/Music/’
lines = []

def findFiles(arg,dir,files):
a = os.path.abspath(dir)
if files:
files.sort()
for file in files:
fullpath = ‘%s/%s’ % (dir, file)
if os.path.isfile(fullpath):
if file == ‘.DS_Store’:
lines.append(fullpath)
os.unlink(fullpath)

file = open(’/home/matthew/kill_results.txt’, ‘w’)
for line in lines:
file.write(line+’\n’)
file.close()

os.path.walk(fsbranch, findFiles, ”)

Sometimes I think posting infrequently and promising to post more often is the lamest thing a person with a blog can do. In other news, I haven’t been posting much and plan to step it up a bit. I even have a new half finished design up. Woo!

So everyones favorite donny chevettey is coming it pootown later this week. that should be a good time. I don’t think I’ve seen donny throw up yet…
To cap off my rambling I went hiking thursday, it was a good time, Overlook Mt. in woodstock, ny. (no woodstock did not happen there (irony folks) but it is full of hippies.) It was a 2.5 mile hike up an old road so it wasn’t exactly a tromp in the woods but the top was totally worth it. There was an old timey hotel that burned down in the 20’s to explore and a firetower looking out over the hudson valley. I was told on a clear day you can see all the way to Albany. That could be a lie though, it was hazy so there was no proof. In anycase totally worth it.

For reasons unknown after setting up STAF on my work machine Open Office 2 and Open Office stopped working. Since I loath the thought of setting up MS Office under WINE I started trying to find the root of the problem. After an hour I got sick of playing with environmental variable and java installs. Instead I downloaded the latest 1.9 milestone and set about setting that up instead. After some mucking around and googling this is what I put together that works.

First download the latest build here.
Unpack the tarball: tar -zxvf OOo_1.9.113_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
Change into SRC680_m113_native_packed-1_en-US.8930/RPMS
sudo alien -k *.i586.rpm to convert all the RPMS to debs
Install with: sudo dpkg -i –force-overwrite *.deb
Run: /opt/openoffice.org1.9.113/program/soffice

This isn’t perfect I’m still getting some command line errors that I think are due to a funky java thing. but we’ll see…

So I got home from the 4th weekend at my parents to see this note on my door from one of my roommates.

Dudes,
There was some hardcode thunder/lightning storms friday night that shut the power off a couple of times, so that’s why your computers are off and the appliacnces are all confused.
….
Also good luck finding a square inch of your stuff my nutsack DIDN’T touch while you were gone.

Hugs + Kisses
Jeff
P.S. - Dinner’s in the fridge. Be in bed by 9.