Miia Ranta » software http://myrtti.fi/blog Nerdette ravings Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:02:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Dear Sant^H^H^H^HPlanet Ubuntu http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/12/19/dear-santhhhhplanet-ubuntu/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/12/19/dear-santhhhhplanet-ubuntu/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:44:42 +0000 myrtti http://myrtti.fi/blog/?p=528 Continue reading →]]> Knitting on 21st century For years I’ve been crying after a proper knitting pattern editor that does KnitML. Yesterday, after rambling at my employers internal XMPP coffee room about how maemo really needs that, since, hey, it really would be a killer application, a coworker pointed me to this: Knitter. No, it’s not for maemo, but atleast it’s a knitting pattern editor!

What I don’t understand though, is why it has to be 3D? Could someone who has actually made more knitting patterns than I have explain this to me?

Anyway… I tried very very hard to compile and install it myself. All my tries ended up with an error, because, to be honest, I’m really not a coder/compiler type (yet). And I have no idea what’s wrong:

knitter_gui.h:24:26: error: wx/clrpicker.h: No such file or directory
knitter_gui.h:29:24: error: wx/gbsizer.h: No such file or directory

And I *DO* have all the damn wx-headers (wx2.4-headers, wx2.6-headers and even wx2.8-headers) installed. Either I’m ignoring something blindingly obvious, which is totally possible, or there’s something wrong. Whichever the case is, I’m not happy.

So. Dear Planet Ubuntu, and why not any other kind soul who is reading this as well. Please tell me where I’m going wrong, and please, would you do “[needs-packaging] Knitter” -bug to Ubuntu/Debian? I would do the latter myself, but you see, I need to knit…

//edit: btw, I’m running Intrepid on 64-bit, so if anyone has the deb laying around on their hard drive, I’d be more than happy to test it.

]]> http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/12/19/dear-santhhhhplanet-ubuntu/feed/ 12 Dear LazyWeb: libnotify + Google Reader? http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/26/dear-lazyweb-libnotify-google-reader/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/26/dear-lazyweb-libnotify-google-reader/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:45:44 +0000 myrtti http://myrtti.fi/blog/?p=217 Continue reading →]]> I’ve tried a gazillion feed readers. I’ve used Liferea, yarssr, rssowl, irssi-rss, gdesklets…

As I’m a fairly mobile person (and in this case mobility can mean anything from shifting from using desktop computer to laptop computer to using only mobile phone and/or my Nokia 770), I’ve not been happy with having multiple instances of the same reader (or even worse, multiple different readers) running on several different platforms. On Sunday, I became very frustrated because of this, and although I love RSSowl to pieces, I’ve moved to the simplest and the most accessible feed reader, Google Reader.

This solution is not the best possible still, as I’ve grown accustomed to have libnotify or an equivalent alerting me with a bubble about new, unread entries. One solution to this is to publish all my feeds and use YET ANOTHER RSS READER, such as… “Yet Another RSS Reader”, also known as yarssr… *sigh* which can almost do what I wantalso sucks and can’t do a thing I want it to do except make a pretty icon on the systray…

So. Is there any solution of my problem? I want to – at minimum – get a nice little bubble informing me that I’ve got unread feed items. Or, if not, would someone be willing to mentor me to create such an application (preferably cross-desktop, to be usable in all Ubuntu derivatives) with Python?

]]> http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/26/dear-lazyweb-libnotify-google-reader/feed/ 12 If I really knew how to code… http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/22/if-i-really-knew-how-to-code/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/22/if-i-really-knew-how-to-code/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:21:54 +0000 myrtti http://myrtti.fi/blog/?p=211 Continue reading →]]>
  • I’d fix gnabblet.sis (an application used on Symbian60 phones to patch their lack of support for FBUS) to work on Symbian60v3
  • I’d add GNU/Gettext support to gwibber and fix the Facebook bug
  • I’d code a decent IRC client for Symbian60v3 phones (or others with J2ME) that could do multiple networks, hilights, aliasing, mute, tabcomplete
  • I’d add Adblock Plus support to Epiphany
  • I’d help with Epiphany/Webkit
  • I’d make midori less buggy and crashy
  • I’d contribute more to Terminator
  • I’d try to fix Epilicious addons Delicious functionality on Epiphany
  • I’d try to create a Fuzzy Clock screenlet
  • I’d help with irssi-otr
  • I’d modify apport to allow editing of the data before uploading them to launchpad
  • I’d code an application similar to FairIsle.jar for designing knitting patterns that would save the knitting patterns in KnitML, be GPL’d and done in Python with GTK/Qt frontends

    • *sigh*
    /me picks up her copy of “Learning Python” by Mark Lutz and starts on page 1…

    ]]>     http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/22/if-i-really-knew-how-to-code/feed/ 12     Byebye Blogilista http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/05/13/byebye-blogilista/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/05/13/byebye-blogilista/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 08:43:02 +0000 myrtti http://koti.kapsi.fi/myrtti/blog/2008/05/13/byebye-blogilista/ Continue reading →]]> Those of you who are following my adventures in Blogostania via blogilista, get a better rss aggregator since this will be the last post you’ll find from me there before I get my username and blogs deleted from there. I can whole heartedly suggest RSSOwl, which is a cross platform rss reader.

    For further explanation… Schizoblog, via Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.

    ]]>     http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/05/13/byebye-blogilista/feed/ 0     A meme that I can happily participate in to http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/04/11/a-meme-that-i-can-happily-participate-in-to/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/04/11/a-meme-that-i-can-happily-participate-in-to/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:56:57 +0000 myrtti http://koti.kapsi.fi/myrtti/blog/2008/04/11/a-meme-that-i-can-happily-participate-in-to/ via bergie:
    myrtti@tikru:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
    115 sudo
    58 grep
    35 ssh
    34 man
    31 ./plain-pdf.sh
    21 cd
    20 bibtex
    16 ./modified-html.sh
    15 ls
    15 ifconfig

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