eric’s extremeboredom

It seems that as of yesterday I can now send/receive text messages as well as recieve voice mail notifications while my phone is on “Extended Network”! Still no 1x data though.. I wonder if e911 location works, that has always worried me. Now if only Verizon didn’t charge so much for messaging…

So there seem to have been quite a few misconceptions about the Glade# code generator, both recently and a few months ago, that I want to clear up. New Feature Before I get to that though, I now have (mostly untested) support for both VB.net and Boo: If you use either of these languages please [...]

I was reading this guy’s blog entry about the linux desktop (it was on osnews or something), and while he does make a few good points, such as how the file manager could be improved, most of the article is just whining about he thought he had installed OSX but ended up with Linux instead. [...]

I wrote a very basic application to generate Glade# code from a glade xml file using CodeDOM. Its a good way for new users to get an idea of how to use Glade#, as well as a way for everyone else to save time. This tool generates stub classes (one class per top-level widget) that [...]

I noticed that my patch that makes Gtk.ListStore implement IEnumerable was commited to Gtk# SVN head (thanks!!) so I figured i’d just mention why it’s useful and how to use it. Preveously if you wanted to traverse all the rows in a ListStore (used for TreeView, ComboBox, etc.) you would have to do something like: [...]

Last night I replaced Gentoo on my desktop with Ubuntu Hoary. This is something I should have done a *long* time ago. Everything .. just works. I still can’t get over how fast apt is. I’ve been compiling everything for way too long. I was thinking back about why I started using Gentoo. Before Gentoo [...]

The city had to do some sort of work on the power grid in our area today, so they shut off power form about 9:00am to 2:30pm. Before I left this morning I shut my server off so it could turn off properly. When I got back home and turned the server back on it [...]

Got basic Exif support implemented into QuickThumbs today. This allows QuickThumbs to display detailed information about photos written by your digital camera: For those of you who don’t know, QuickThumbs is a photo gallery that generates it’s self automatically from flat files on your drive, so you can just drag and drop photos from your [...]

Here are some fun things to try out: This page will freeze the latest Windows version of Internet Explorer (after loading the page, resize the window)http://eric.extremeboredom.net/Stuff/freeze_ie.html Visit this page using Firefox, then try it in Safari or Konqueror =).http://cflfm.com/ Thanks to Matt (who’s too “cool” to have a blog apparently) for both of these. Does [...]

There seems to be a trend lately. Let’s ask someone for help and assume that they can both see our screen and read our mind! Examples: (21:39:47) Someone: for my site i can’t get mono to work as my handler for my site i put the handler line in the apache2.conf but it isn’t working [...]