Continuation

So new Xeons are almost out. Can not wait until more price drops, as I need a server.

I have obtained Agile Web Development with Rails β version as a PDF and now spending most of my time swallowing it… almost last weekend I have spent on CSI: Miami and a History of violence, both great.

As most of you know NSA is spying on everybody, here is a nice cartoon with a song about it.

Ania is writing a dissertation. She knows nothing about text editing, they never taught it in her university. When I had questionable pleasure of being asked how to do something in OpenOffice every five minutes, I have asked her if she can send the file over to me, and I will create some styles for her text.

What I have received was nowhere to be said ‘pro’ …
I have spend around 8h or more to remove all the extra empty paragraphs, repeated spaces and finally styling each of the paragraphs, converting formula’a to objects… adding correct captions. Really not the most interesting stuff to do.
Before sending corrected document back to Ania, I had to explain what I have done, and how she should carry-on editing it. And during that time I have written some useful tips for a newbie, all in Polish ( except names from OpenOffice ). I will try to compile a short and no doubt incomplete tutorial. Just after I will get over with this ‘dissertation problem’.

I have re-enabled dri in my X11 configuration. Scrolling through pages is smooth again! Great stuff! It was the most annoying thing for me. An now I can play Video with XVideo what saves a lot of CPU time.

I just do not like when perfectly working system is “upgraded” to not working. Today I have upgraded my X.org X11 to 7.1 and … my Fglrx drivers stopped working. Does not matter which version, it just does not work due to binary incompatibility between modules and X11. crap! I had to merge f86-video-ati which does not support any acceleration … and now my Firefox is bloody slow! when scrolling.  Accutally , I would love to know why…

That situation makes me think about some Portage tweak. It has warned me that my ati-drivers are blocking xorg-server-1.1 ( or some other latest number) but this block has stopped whole upgrade for my world… what if it would just tell me that this and this will not be upgraded due to this block, and carry on with stuff which does not depend on blocked ebuilds. And when all new versions will reach portage it will upgrade remaining software.

Second tweak would be to rollback last X upgrades. Like in my situation I found my system malfunctioning after upgrade, and I would like to rollback to previous working perfectly ( OK, almost ) state. emerge –rollback ati-drivers-X.X.X and all software which is blocking because it is to new would be downgraded. Cool!

To be honest … it might be there, but no body told me about it( GWN? ) and forums are just too crowdy.

You would expect to not loose, but gain more features right ?
Not with flock, 0.7.0.11.1 available for Linux is a step back.
What was wrong with Semi-Live Bookmarks, that is a crucial feature when I am choosing a web browser … and you have removed it! what for…
That move just cancelled all my good feeling for that team :/ at least for now.