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08
Feb 2010

more snow in biggin hill

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07
Feb 2010

ooer missus

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07
Feb 2010

coloring at the pub while waiting for lunch.

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06
Feb 2010

afternoon nap

Wish this was me.

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04
Feb 2010

roll up, roll up, gut loaded crickets for free

Approx 30 or so gut loaded, noiseless crickets available for free to anyone local that wants them. 

First come,  first served.

Limpy and Lumpy do not seem to like them and I am certainly not eating them!

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02
Feb 2010

fixing nightly build of gwibber

Earlier today a new (trunk) build of Gwibber was released. 

If, like me, you install unstable software and fiddle with it, you may run intio this problem. One of the menu items in the new build shows you can display single stream or multi stream.

   
Click here to download:
fixing_nightly_build_of_gwiber.zip (29 KB)

As of this time (02/02/10 - 21:30) I do not advise changing to multi stream view.

As soon as I changed the view Gwibber crashed and would not restart. Running gwibber from a bash prompt showed:

 

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 62, in <module>

    client.Client()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 392, in __init__

    self.w = GwibberClient()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 46, in __init__

    self.setup_ui()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 84, in setup_ui

    self.stream_view.connect("search", self.on_perform_search)

TypeError: <MultiStreamUi object at 0x9dbc644 (gwibber+gwui+MultiStreamUi at 0x9c9f460)>: unknown signal name: search

 

I spent ages looking at the desktopcouch settings (the latest release of Gwibber seems to have moved all the config from .gconf to desktopcouch - but I could be wrong) and could not find the config data to reset the view anywhere.

Finally I decided to uninstall the nightly build and revert to the stable version. While making sure I knew where all the files were placed so I could confirm the full removal of the software I found......

gwibber-preferences

Run it from a bash prompt and it brings up the original settings window and you can reset the view to single stream.

 

* * UPDATE * *

Bug confirmed at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/515987

 

 

 

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30
Jan 2010

lumpy and limpy

 

The new pets.  Hoping to have a live webcam set up by the end of the weekend.

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29
Jan 2010

more snow??

via twidroid

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23
Jan 2010

after moving all the home media components

via twidroid

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10
Dec 2009

quick tip for ubuntu / back in time users

I recently started using Back In Time to automate my local backups on a couple of Ubuntu machines but found an annoying problem. If you have any mounted network shares the backups seem to fail. On further investigation the backup job was not failing but rather trying to scan the entire network share, and then back it up too. To get round this issue simply add ~/.gvfs as an exclusion to the backup set.

This will then stop any mounted drives from being scanned for changes and backed up.

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