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Posts from ‘September, 2008’

Pidgin configure is fucking stupid!

Seriously, why use autoconf if you need to go hands on anyway? That shit started somewhere with the 2.4.x releases and is fucking retarded and annoying. See this:
checking for GTKSPELL… no
configure: error:
GtkSpell development headers not found.
Use –disable-gtkspell if you do not need it.
Duh? How about you just go about implying that parameter then? Like how [...]

Solaris/x86 software you might be interested in…

While we wait for Sun to fill up its IPS repository for OpenSolaris and whether third parties create good repos or not (Blastwave, yach!), here’s a three links to binary packages that might interest you and shouldn’t be missing on any system (I’ve tested them only under Solaris Nevada/OpenSolaris). All links are SVR4 packages:
Transmission 1.21: [...]

Fucking “reviews”!

What’s this trend lately of various sites claiming to have done “reviews”, that are essentially just parrotting the related press release with some slightly different words?
For days now I’m trying to find actual real world pictures of the upcoming Logitech Illuminated Keyboard, yet whatever exclusion search I try, I keep running into these silly “reviews”, [...]