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Posted using LJ Talk... Jul. 23rd, 2008 @ 10:17 am
thunderstorm means no morning hacking for me

Holy catchphrases, Batman! Jul. 22nd, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
Moving soon, turning 21 soon, will have been with Meg for 2 years soon. Life has been somewhat uneventful, but I've been working on Summer of Code steadily, and I passed my midterms, so that's awesome. New house is cool, and we'll have the Corabelle! I should attach pictures later, but I don't know if I ever will.

Rich text overflow Jul. 22nd, 2008 @ 11:23 pm
I haven't updated my status in a while, so here goes: I started work on StringFormats, and can't prove that those are correct without Regions being implemented so I did that (with the guiding help of Hue Davies and my mentor). A side effect of this is that QuickTime is now closer to being workable out of the box.

Also in the cue is the ever pending PrivateFontCollection work. To be honest, I've been distracted by other small projects and work has stalled, but I sent in the stubs just now, so at least applications (hopefully) wont crash. They may even draw with some default font. Or crash. The long-term plan is to copy parts of gdi32's font handling over so that we have the direct access needed to implement all this correctly.

I've certainly learned a lot so far while working on Wine, and the experience is wonderful. Writing real-world code is just amazing, and the quality control forces you to rise to the level. I'm still always behind where I want to be - but the end result is always better after time spent revising due to peer review.
The mood: accomplished
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lets not speak backwards of future events Jun. 21st, 2008 @ 03:59 pm
More work on GpFontFamilies, and in the end on GpFont, the latter doesn't seem to affect too much except my tests from what I can tell on bugzilla, but the former should get a few more installers working that depend on CreateFontFamilyFromName (which is a good many of them) as well as some other miscellaneous apps. I was hoping to finish work on FontCollections, but that gave way to GpFont handling (although I'm hoping it will be ready by Tuesday).

Other miscellaneous stuff continues.

All in all its been slightly more difficult in fitting in with someone else's code than I planned, especially code with many authors, and coding style can vary from fragment to fragment. Its like exploring new territory, with each part hacked on.

And I'm requesting please: if you have to use a native Gdiplus to run applications, make sure that there's an open bug about it, preferably at least mentioning where it crashes / explodes if applicable.
The jams: Tenacious D
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Posted using LJ Talk... Jun. 15th, 2008 @ 01:51 pm
A word to all my friends: please keep me out of your pyramid schemes.

Money for sale! Jun. 11th, 2008 @ 11:40 am
The plan for today is to find some simple test GDIP applications, and write them when necessary -- dealing mostly with fonts. So far it seems like everything works okay, but I'd like to see it in action to make sure.
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Cellfones explode upon hitting a dirty ape! Jun. 9th, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
This week I've done some work on GpFontFamilies, and I am still getting used to doing things in Wine the right way (as opposed to making something work). Gdiplus is horribly under tested, and I've already found some places where we aren't compliant with Microsoft Windows.

Speaking of -- I've managed to get Vista running in a virtual machine, so that leads to quicker testing, which is awesome (A+). It also means I can now test on Microsoft Windows XP and Vista, for greater test coverage.

That's about it on the Wine front. I wish I had more to report :-\
The mood: tired
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When it rains, we ride bikes May. 26th, 2008 @ 05:42 pm
First day on the job (and its labor day in the US). Got the rest of my setup working pretty decently. I can now both compile, cross-compile, and run the test cases -- which will be very important in making sure that things get done right. Its nice to know that the test cases I've got to work with generally pass on most machines with the exception of two tests that fail on a small minority (the rest of Wine can be much worse, and some tests even fail or crash on Windows).

A trip to the school lab to see if everything works on MS Windows okay (from the compile). Well, apparently IR_Zip or something like that can't really handle bz2 archives that are over 100MB. So I installed bzip on my network drive. Can't inflate there, so I have to have wine-rc2 on my pen drive. Time to convert Makefiles->Visual Studio: no Perl on the school drive, so now I'm carrying around a copy of that, too. Then Microsoft Visual Studio crashed. Repeatedly.

My new PC is still being built, and I'm really getting tired of the crap my current one is throwing at me (randomly disappearing drives, failure to suspend, no sound, etc). Can't wait until it ships. On a completely unrelated note, I can't wait until D&D 4.0, either. Because I'm a dork at times.

EDIT: Someone kind pointed out that I typo-d and hit labor day. Don't know why :-\
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New Computers shouldn't fall from the skies May. 21st, 2008 @ 02:33 pm
I started the order for a new computer, and it should actually work, unlike this one sometimes. Its the cheapest alienware model, but with 4 cores and nVidia instead of ATi. I know that ATi is improving their support for Linux, but currently nVidia just does better. It also comes with Windows Vista, and I'll keep that for Wine development. It should ship within a week, and then everything will be spiffy.

Posted using LJ Talk... May. 16th, 2008 @ 05:47 pm
I can't does anyone ever have this weird problem with their phone where they can't make outgoing calls, but can receive them?

Posted using LJ Talk... May. 15th, 2008 @ 04:46 pm
I'm bored in Greensboro, because school's out. Is there anyone still here who'd be interested in doing shit over the summer? I'm thinking D&D group, but comment if you have ideas.

Posted using LJ Talk... May. 12th, 2008 @ 06:07 pm
Just because something has a 1/500 chance of happening doesn't mean it won't happen on the 46th chance.

Each day you work takes 8 hours off of your life. May. 7th, 2008 @ 02:58 pm
My computer's dying again: this time it seems a little more serious. I'm getting 
Hardware Error
CPU 0 Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 4: b200000000070f0f
TSC: 104ba550f7
This is not a software problem!
So rather than just patch up this machine again, I'm looking to buy a new computer. This will be the first computer I've bought all at once since the first year of high school (6 years). I'm going to be looking for something with 4 cores, and something with nVidia -- other than that I don't care. I'm thinking Desktop, because I'm thinking the laptop would be too hot considering how the lesser powerful laptops I've used can get uncomfortably hot.

Hopefully, I'll be able to patch up something so I can work on Summer of Code by the time it starts, I would hate to be late. Grr... why does this happen?
The mood: sad
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The summer is starting soon! May. 5th, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
The summer is starting soon, and I've been accepted into Google's Summer of Code! I will be working on the Wine project, implementing GDI+ so that more applications can work "out of the box": no messing with native DLLs, no possible illegal downloading of them. I'm very excited to work on such a large project, and I'm also excited for other people who are working on equally or more awesome projects -- over 1100 students all over the world.

I'll be posting status updates on my journal (with the soc tag), and my overall status will be viewable at http://wiki.winehq.org/AdamPetaccia.
The mood: excited
The jams: Sell Sell Sell ~ Barenaked Ladies
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Computa troubles Apr. 9th, 2008 @ 03:54 pm
Well, my computer's on the fritz again: bad hard drive this time. Tomorrow, I'm going to reinstall my OS onto a 20GB HD I have lying around, but the 80GB is dead -- it can't even spin up. I'm wondering if its still under warranty - I may be able to get it fixed. But my sound card is going out, but I'm wondering if that's an effect of my power supply. There are just too many recycled parts in this computer. I'm thinking when I get the money, Pimpmobile 2.0 will have to be put to rest.

If I can get $350 in pocket, I may be able to at least start a new one (new case, mobo, and CPU). Any suggests for a new name?

UPDATE: Apparently, the hard drive is out of warranty; it expired in January of last year.

CLARIFICATION: Only my entire operating system is gone. My /home drive (or my user data) is still perfectly intact (and I have backups (do you?)).
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Lame joke on the way to class Feb. 28th, 2008 @ 02:00 pm
So there's a muffin, and a unicorn in a field. And the muffin says "I'm hungry", right? The unicorn replies "Alright, but we can't eat meat, because I must remain pure". So they start walking, and they run into a priest, a rabbi, and a firearms salesman. Then they walk into a bar.

... and then the muffin said "that's not my cat, that's my face!".

Complete the story as to how you think it goes, and I'll post what I had later.
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Christmas moose for all. Dec. 23rd, 2007 @ 11:00 pm
School is out, did well. For the first time in over 3 years I've made all As and Bs. Go me, indeed, although I do think it had something to do with the difficulty of my classes.

Just did my homework on making totem more awesome on Ubuntu for Hardy. Youtube search built in, and that's not bad at all. Been wrestling with ffmpeg for the past half day. I hate projects that refuse to release. At least in the old days Wine provided us with semi-approved "snapshots".

Also got my computer set up to use my USB stick as a password, so as long as my USB stick is in there, my compy will never ask me for a password, which is cool. Yeah, geeky stuff, but that's what I've done, recently.
The jams: Sweeny Todd

Can't sleep, zombies will eat me Dec. 14th, 2007 @ 10:36 pm
Meg and I went to see I am Legend tonight. Scary shit. Not that it was too scary, but I guess that movie hit home for me, because that's always how I pictures zombies would really be (even though these aren't zombies per-se). Wont give away too much details, but I thought the movie was well thought out and seemed more realistic than most zombie films. If you're into zombie movies (or Will Smith) I'd go see it.

Unfortunately, there was this one guy behind us who thought he was quiet enough to wisper plot descriptions to his girl friend without anyone else hearing. He was wrong. A word: please don't do this in the theatre. Especially on opening night. It just makes you look like a loser. Meg and I both laughed about this.

Anyway... can't sleep -- zombies will eat me.
The mood: scared

Axial Tilt is the reason for the season. Dec. 13th, 2007 @ 07:06 pm
Warm winters are fucked up. Made dinner tonight -- and was thoroughly dissatisfied with it. The potatoes were flavorless, the meat too much flavor (bad marinade), the broccoli cooked too long, and the onions just didn't do. I rarely turn away food, but tonight I just did. Meg said it was okay though, so at least one of us ate a real dinner.

Broke my computer; not sure what's wrong with it. Refusing to load X on account of "no drivers". One would think installing drivers would help (it doesn't). I've been playing a bit of freeciv recently, and getting ready for my anthropology exam.

Dec. 7th, 2007 @ 07:34 pm
Everyone knows that the end of the semester sucks. I'm saying it too.
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