Old Fashioned isn’t necessarily good

I recently updated my mono/glade tutorial with:

A couple of things have come up since the last version of this tutorial:

1. Mozilla: because of the way Mozilla is installed in some distributions (I haven’t been able to trace what it exactly is yet), running the application in MonoDevelop causes the following failure: Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not
   set to an instance of an object
   . Running the application from a terminal (the exe is in the project bin/Debug directory) solves that issue. Also make sure MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME is set.
2. Glade 2.6+: If you are using a very recent version of Glade which by default adds an alignment to a new frame (Glade 2.6 and newer, I believe) you can either remove the alignment from the frame or or add the WebControl to the alignment instead of the frame with something like

   [Widget] Alignment alignment1;

   and later in the code

   //instead of frame1.Add(web);
   alignment1.Add(web);

Being young doesn’t mean that you’re going to live a very long time.

I started watching Ali G, at the insistence of pretty much everybody telling me how great it is. It was pretty good, I thought. We’ll see what I think of the next episode. In the mean time, I saw Shaun of the Dead which was quite funny though not the funniest english flick I ever saw. Which IMHO is Holy Grail. God, I am boring.

Best recent quote I read:

“You were tuning into that damn alien porn channel again and you know it.”

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Thanks to WirelessModem I am now able to use my Treo as a GPRS modem on T-Mobile wherever I go. Which means I won’t be miserable at airports around the continent waiting for planes that are late or companies to get it together and offer (free?) wireless access. Unfortunately it’s $$ for what it is and only available on Windows and MacOS X but the palm software might work as is if your Linux kernel is potent.

So on MacOS X (T-Mobile, Treo 600, USB cable), beyond what’s in the doc, here is the deal:

You need Ross Barkman’s Generic GPRS modem scripts which can be found here http://www.taniwha.org.uk

I am using the Generic GPRS CID1, check ‘enable error correction and compression’ and ‘wait for dial tone before dialing’.

In the PPP tab use internet2.voicestream.com as your telephone number (I know it’s not a number…), no login, no password, TCP/IP uses PPP, no proxy

From there it just works for me. You might want to add a couple of dns ip numbers from another connection if you have them, it does speed things up.

[Thanks to Jonathan Greene for helping getting it working]

I belong to a club

Intellectually lazy intelligent people who get off by cultural slumming.

How lame. I might as well start voting for Bush while I am at it.

Oh no, wait, I can’t vote! I am allowed to pay taxes though, thankfully.

h3b>I always thought I was a highly functional drunk

Apparently I was wrong.

But I discovered a great new Mono application, GIB. They seem to be coming out at an accelerating pace, which is great.

Indios de Barcelona

Brainshare Europe 2004 (BSE2004) was a lot of fun this year. Beside going out in the town, the sessions were particularly interesting and I think that Nat totally nailed the Collaboration keynote demo on Thursday. Miguel and I did pretty good with our mono Keynote demo but we have to come up with something even more extraordinary for the next big event.

The Mono sessions were well attended and we were able to give away a lot of Edd and Niel’s Mono, a Developer’s Notebook. I gave a session on Migrating Applications from Windows to Linux using Mono (here in OpenOffice presentation format) which was great to write and present.

You’re miserable, edgy, and tired. You’re in the perfect mood for journalism.

In other ‘noteworthy’ news, I now have my camera back (EOS 20D owners, you amuse me), my new G5, a BlueTooth headset that doesn’t work with Skype (username ‘edasque’) and am planning my next scuba-diving vacation.

Well, that’s about all I have to report for now. I look forward to some time at home, in Boston.

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