Random Musings

At work, we’ve been switching to using BitKeeper instead of CVS - I’m even more impressed than I was when just using it as a lazy way to download updates to the Linux kernel to play with at home.

It’s odd to feel inclined to do real work just to have an excuse to play with the tool involved…. but then again, my current project is to replace all text strings in our main product (ADX) with calls to gettext…. which is an incredibly boring task.

If only I could figure out why xgettext has no facility to set the character set (encoding? Whatever UTF-8 should be called.)…. I’d love a way to get rid of the crapload of warnings that ends up causing me.

For the last several weeks I’ve been battling a series of failing hardware - seemingly a losing battle, as well.

Last weekend I got angry at the server I’ve been using to host my email and such for years (An ABIT-BP6 with Dual Celeron 466s in it.), so I went out and bought an Athlon 64, case, power supply, memory to use to replace something.

I ended up (after several failures at other ideas) replacing my gaming machine with that, and moving harddrives around in other hardware so that everything else works.

First, I have to reinstall Windows XP on it (not really sure why), then after I do that, it still has spontaneous crashes to deal with, which may have been related to the bad ram I had.

Now it appears the gaming machine has killed its harddrive. sigh