August 17, 2005

No updates for a while... sorry about that.  I've been kinda busy 
lately.  I think since I last wrote that there has been some progress in 
dorkworld.  I did manage to get a diskless NetBSD/i386 system up and 
running.  It involved recompiling the NetBSD kernel, which sounds hard, 
but was actually simple and fast in reality.  I also finally got my 
Freenet node back up and running again.  That was quite a big 
achievement.  I've been working on Exhale, my Freeenet client, quite a 
bit lately.  I modified it to compile on Linux, but GTK was having a fit 
with my multithreaded architecture.  Apprarently you can't even emit 
signals from other threads in GTK.  The Windows version didn't return 
errors because it could handle the calls, but X was returning lots of 
problems.  So I've rebuilt the threading system to be 100x more robust 
and thread-safe.  It should be done soon.

I was also busy pulling lanscaping timbers out of my backyard.  The 
losers who owned the house before me put these railroad tie sized chunks 
of wood all around their gardens.  Although only one was showing, they 
sat two deep in the ground (three deep in one location).  On top of 
that, they connected them with freakin' rebar.  I'm not kiding, rebar.  
It was hammered right through the giant timbers.  It mad breaking them 
apart unbelievably difficult.  It's not like 8-foot lengths of 8x8 
lumber are going to blow away in the wind, so why connect them with 
steel?  

Adios,
Jeff


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