beos

Found it!

Posted on by grahams

I finally found the “Hang on LJ Transaction” bug in the AliveJournal code. There is a class ResponseBlockManager that does a really good job of busting the server responses into a hashtable-like gizzer. The class was written by the original author, and is super-useful. Unfortunately there was an assumption in there that would occasionally cause a buffer to get scrogged.

Anyway, I am positive that the “Hang on Login” and the “Writer doesn’t clear after submission” bugs are now squashed…. I am going to package up a fixed version now.. (I also made the “Clear” button actually do something in the WriterWIndow… :P

Finally

Posted on by grahams

I stopped waiting for the original author to do something with my patches to the BeOS LiveJournal client, so I decided to clean up everything I had, add a few more features (like posting to alternate journals, using alternate pictures, etc) and release it. AliveJournal was born. I think it is pretty decent software, and I will be continuing to maintain it for some time to come. You can see some screenshots here, if you are interested.

I have Calculus and a Gannett Lecture for Senior Seminar tonight. The last one was a yawner, but I was also really sick at the time. Hopefully it won’t be as bad tonight. :)

Everything’s just a little broken

Posted on by grahams

You can re-release it, you can remix it, but when it comes down to it, bad music is still bad.

It seems that the Sprite slot on the Drink machine sticks and dumps its entire contents out from time to time. Bill and I (the software guys) believe this is a hardware (either mechanical or electronic) problem, and of course, the hardware guys think otherwise. :) The one thing we have going for us is that it is the same slot every time, and all the other slots work fine…

I am fairly certain that the changes I made to the LJ client last night work, but one person replied in the support area saying they still had problems…. I guess I will have to wait and see.

This is gonna suck…. :)

Posted on by grahams

We are going to see “Charlie’s Angels” tonight, but I don’t hold any hope that it will be a good film. If anything else, I will get to gawk at Drew Barrymore a bit (she’s real purdy).

I have spent the past few days goofing off and hacking on personal projects (like bringing OpenSSH to Be), but I am gonna need to work on our Filesystem for Operating Systems 2 and also study for a Prob & Stat exam on Tuesday…

Yeah

Posted on by grahams

I packaged up my changes to the LiveJournal client earlier today and sent them to the original author. He is going to package up a new release with my additions. I added in the ability to turn off autoformatting, which I like alot.

Cool

Posted on by grahams

I just added another feature to the LiveJournal client for Be. Now, in the “Post Options” window, there is a button for the user to press to get the current songname from Soundplay. And it only took a few minutes.

Programming is fun.