Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Thursday 28 July 2005

AbiWord 2.3.4 - MacOS X build

AbiWord 2.3.4 has finally been build for MacOS X. The build should work on Jaguar (MacOS X 10.2) unlike previous one. On Mac, it does not bring much things, but a few bug fixes: crash, memory leaks, and broken cut and paste.

Disk Image - Source for Mac

gdb (in)consistencies

 $ gdb --help                     
 This is the GNU debugger.  Usage:

    gdb [options] [executable-file [core-file or process-id]]
    gdb [options] --args executable-file [inferior-arguments ...]

 Options:

  --args             Arguments after executable-file are passed to inferior
  --[no]async        Enable (disable) asynchronous version of CLI

[...]

But...

$ gdb --noasync
gdb: unrecognized option `--noasync'
Use `gdb --help' for a complete list of options.

WTF ? Should we debug the debugger ? Filed a bug for Debian.

Bank IT smoking weed

Bank IT services should stop smoking weed and using coke.

This time the stupid morons at my French bank decided that the keyboard was no longer an acceptable solution to type, so they decided to do it with the mouse... and of course, just to add difficulties, to shuffle the numbers each time. Pure crack.

Looks like next time I go to France, I'll find another bank, as I don't intend to move this money to Canada for various reasons.