I didn't manage to go to the conference today. But matteo did go and took some photos as well.

Ozzy Osbourne - Secret Loser

Went to see Paolo Conte last night. Excellent performance. Just brilliant.

Also released a new groupvte, with copy and paste support, deprecated widgets removal, with a desktop entry and fixed some focus issues.

Finally a patch appeared on LKML to fix this error. This old Compaq Presario 1690 with a PCMCIA Network card from Realtek and a PCI1211 CardBus from Texas Instruments works without a hitch:

modprobe yenta_socket disable_clkrun=1

Joshua Redman - Free speech phase 2

Went to see Il mio cane stupido, which is a fun and enjoyable piece about the life of the late John Fante.

Since I don't have an easy access to a non x86 box at home, I had to setup a toolchain for x86 on my laptop. Things are fairly simple if you follow the Emdebian instructions. The only glitch I encountered was the failure of gcc 3.4 while compiling:

_ /tmp/gcc-3.4-3.4.3/build/gcc/xgcc -B/tmp/gcc-3.4-3.4.3/build/gcc/ ...snip... libgcc/64/unwind-c.o -lc && rm -f libgcc_s_64.so && if [ -f 64/libgcc_s.so.1 ]; then mv -f 64/libgcc_s.so.1 64/libgcc_s.so.1.backup; else true; fi && mv 64/libgcc_s.so.1.tmp 64/libgcc_s.so.1 && ln -s 64/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s_64.so/usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/i386-linux/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc /usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/i386-linux/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc /usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/../../i386-linux/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc /usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/../../i386-linux/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc /usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/i386-linux/bin/../../lib/libc.so when searching for -lc /usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/i386-linux/bin/../../lib/libc.a when searching for -lc /usr/i386-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status _

Which is due to the fact that biarch, libgcc64 and libgcc64cxx get compiled in. So all you have to do is edit debian/rules.defs and make sure that you have the following:

...
ifeq ($(DEB_TARGET_GNU_TYPE),i386-linux)
biarch := no
with_lib64gcc := no
with_lib64cxx := no
...

Paolo Conte - Tango

Thanks to my friends, I'm a happy subscriber of the great Losing Today Indie Music magazine.

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

Do that on windows..

09:34:24 up 400 days, 20:00,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Cake - Prolonging the Magic

While waiting for some people being late, I finally got around to fixing a PPC specific Xfce4.2 bug that was annoying me for some time. It was just a bad assumption that all architectures implement char as signed, whereas char in my powerbook is unsigned.

I've been stuck with extremely high I/O waits on quite a few Dell RHEL3 servers. Booting a vanilla kernel removes pretty much all the issues and apparently Red Hat is still stuck on it #121434. I'm not too impressed actually

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

Went to visit Sandro and Malena. Met up with Antonio and went to see his exposition. Bought a few cd's: Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate, Pixies - Surfer Rosa, Sonic Youth - Goo, Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf and The Connels - The Ring. back to work...