a blab by idle

The flu is annoying. Truly annoying.

In other news, I'm finally making some decent progress on the new server. Upgraded to Fedora Core 3 release (heidelberg) from the DVD I made earlier this week (which also marks my first use of BitTorrent, which appears to have been written by a former employee of mine from EarthWeb days). daily babble 2.0 is now in development; MT 3.121 is running fine (though I'd like to get it working under mod_perl 2.0 and I still haven't gotten a successful test of the XML-RPC stuff, which is unnerving me since SOAP::Lite refuses to pass a 'make test' no matter what I do to it.

I did get a DVD player program running the other day; with the NVidia X.org drivers, it actually looks quite nice. Too bad I don't have anything hooked up to the sound output to see how that works, but there is a S/PDIF optical out, so in the future, there may be a possibility there. Still, I doubt I want my server to waste cycles on MPEG2 decoding, so this would be more for amusement value than anything else.

My god, Tiger — OS X 10.4 — has some cool features.

I mean, incredibly cool.

The tastiest thing I've seen so far: Dashboard.

Speaking of which, I'm in the Dashboard seminar right now, so I'll have to post more later….

So yesterday, the topic of Trevor Horn came up. It turns out that he has a new double album coming out on Monday, a compilation of 25 years of his producing efforts. The mistake I made was going to the ZTT website, where I found out that Trevor remixed Daft in 5.1. Oh, my. Well, there's £19 that I wasn't planning on spending.

Moreover, that means I'll finally need to buy a SACD player. That's another $500+….

Sigh.

There's been a bug found in MT-Blacklist 2.x that apparently can, at times, cause a second blog to accidentally be deleted if you delete one on purpose. Apparently it doesn't necessarily nuke it from the database, but it does hose it enough that even MT-Medic can't retrieve it.

I mention this just because of the gravity of this situation. Doubtless most of you know already, but, just in case….

MovableType 2.x/MT-Blacklist 1.x users are not effected by this.