This is how St. Catherine looks today:

Tomorrow? Well, give me 24 hours

Mont Tremblant

I had a few hours free yesterday and i decided to finish sorting the images i had from last year

Unfortunately not enough time to do any post processing so i uploaded everything directly after removing duplicates, blurry and useless images. Most of the deleted images were from fireworks. It seems i need a remote control this summer.

I kept some images to make a few HDRs but … next time

Hopefully tomorrow i’ll have time to create a slideshow with best images and update the photo blog but until then, my gallery is here.

I don’t know Perl so, i decided to give a try to the one written in PHP. Well, it didn’t work so i decided to fix it myself. Looking at the code i was impressed but not in a good way. It was a mess of php and html, no way to make it to support short urls unless i modified all the files and more more other things so, i decided to write one myself

Normally something like QDB is very simple, very easy and it can be done in a weekend but i wanted to do a few things i’ve never had time to do like: writing my own URL routing mechanism, using mootools, using something like Java’s Hibernate… maybe a PHP form processor with support for UI components (if i have enough time ).

Reading on the internet about URL routing i found Axial Routing, i liked it and decided to base my code on that tutorial. I abused the singletons a little and together with the router mechanism i wrote a few methods to read an XML configuration file which describes the parameters for each controller. This way i’ll have an easier life later when i will implement the input validation and data sanitization.

Now, the first step is done
Having an working routing mechanism, XML parser and an easy way to validate the data next step was finding something like Hibernate and i found Doctrine and Propel. Doctrine 2 is currently in development and different from Doctrine 1 but when will be ready will be closer to Java’s Hibernate so, i decided to use it.

Now i’m in reading stage so, in a few days i’ll start creating the database tabels and models. As soon as i’ll have them ready, i’ll write the authentication manager.

Next step: design the website to work with computer browsers and mobile browsers (webkit based… well Opera too) at the same time changing only the CSS Style Sheets without altering the HTML and/or Javascript file(s).

Why they don’t make ‘em like this anymore?

Is all in the attitude!

Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with me

As soon as i logged in i saw over 500 updates but loosing 2 operating systems was not enough Checking Sabayon website i found a new version, 4.2.
I decided to download the ISO before starting to update 500 packages because i was almost sure something will go wrong.

And it went!

As usual, the graphic card didn’t work and wireless was down with no chance to download ATI driver for the 2.6.29 kernel. Open source driver didn’t work either so, i was in front of a “dead” laptop.

After half an hour, Sabayon 4.2 was installed.

What did work?
Graphics.
Now, when i use Compiz, MPlayer is not flickering anymore and also, other OpenGL apps are working too.

Sound didn’t work but the fix from this post worked.
CPU wasn’t set to “ondemand” so i had to apply the fix from this post.
Microphone didn’t work either … still muted by default so, i had to use aslamixer to switch to “Front Mic” and raise the sliders.

After a friend gave me an UTP cable, i was able to fix the touchscreen and fix the wireless by installing the latest broadcom-sta driver. Unfortunately at work every minute i was disconnected from AP.

I installed wicd and … nothing. It was a problem with DHCP because wicd was stuck in “Obtaining IP address…”

After checking wicd website i found a new version of wicd, not available in Sabayon repository. I had nothing to loose so, i decided to install it:

maya ~ # /etc/init.d/wicd stop
maya ~ # killall wicd-client
maya ~ # equo remove wicd
maya ~ # equo install bzr
maya ~ # bzr branch lp:wicd
maya ~ # cd wicd
maya ~ # python setup.py configure
maya ~ # python setup.py install
maya ~ # /etc/init.d/wicd start
maya ~ # rc-update add wicd default

Reboot is not necessary. As user just start wicd-client and connect.
Everything worked after. At home & work.

Other thing that didn’t work was suspend. Unfortunately, the fix from this post didn’t work so, after digging on Internet i found the fix on Ubuntu forums. Just add “i8042.nomux i8042.reset” at the end of the line starting with “kernel” in your /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Sabayon Linux (kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.29-sabayon)
	root (hd0,5)
	kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.29-sabayon
root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=8192
real_root=UUID=f77ff3dc-6212-4294-a148-c39d4b87aab2
dolvm init=/linuxrc splash=silent,theme:sabayon vga=791
CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet resume=swap:/dev/sda5
real_resume=swap:/dev/sda5
i8042.nomux i8042.reset
	initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.29-sabayon
	savedefault

Suspend is working with compiz activated too.

Soon Sabayon 5 will be out and i’ll have to start all over again as ~1000 packages to be upgraded will most likely break something

By the way, SSH FS is really awesome

Kahnawake Pow Wow

I uploaded the images from Kahnawake Pow Wow on my gallery.

Unfortunately there are too many of them and i didn’t have time to choose a few and create a slide show.

I’ll be there next year too.

Some of the shots are great. Maybe next time i’ll amke a movie too