Nicolás Brailovsky

So, new Buguntu upgrade, new problems. The usual deal. I don’t like Unity so I installed the usual gnome desktop. Now when I start gVim I get a bunch of errors like this:

OK, not errors, just warnings. I don’t like them anyway, so I did this to fix it:

Now it works. One problem less, NaN to go… time to move back to Debian?

Let’s work on the last variadic exercise, a wrapper. Say you have something like this:

And you want to wrap do_something with something else (Remember __PRETTY_FUNCTION__?). This is a solution, the worst one though:

Why is it so bad? Let’s say you don’t control do_something, you just control the wrapper. You may not even control main(), it may be beyond your scope. That means each time do_something changes, or adds an overload, you have to change your code. That’s ugly and you should already know how to set up a variadic function to forward the arguments to do_something. Give it a try, next time the solution.

Today it’s been 756864000 seconds of uptime since I was promoted from Release Candidate to V1.0. Hope none of you remember I made this same post 31536000 seconds ago.

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This is a very cool family album: http://blog.nizarus.org/2010/04/ubuntu-the-family-album

Can’t wait to upgrade to 10.04, my current install (9.10) is working like crap.

Damn Acronyms, They Are Everywhere. I’m working on a project which is named as an acronym (IWC) of acronyms (IW CWMP) of acronyms (IW CPE WAN Management Protocol). You need a parser just to understand the project’s name. Gotta love it.

The sad truth

Spanish only: GNU/Linux, Guía de Supervivencia – Versión Ubuntu Day

Released under WTFPL if you care to know. Source code to be available soon too.

Seen on a cablemodem’s configuration page:

Long version: The other day, while stranded on a CLI (using ssh) I did a wget $IP, to see a modem’s status web page. I’d have thought an electronic device (which, obviously, is much more difficult to upgrade than a software product, and that’s difficult enough as it is) is a little bit better tested than that. I should have known better by now.

I don’t usually post links, I’d rather write something myself, but check out this quote:

You don’t see me calling Linux users tux turds, penguin poopers or GUI-challenged, do you?

http://www.pcmech.com/article/good-linux-users-dont-talk-about-microsoft/

Enjoy