I upgraded by x40 lastnight to use 2.6.14 and suspend2. I even managed to get the framebuffer working, and now I am using suspendui_fbsplash which is so cool.
The suspend2 is so much faster than the standard suspend that is currently in the linux kernel, and now seems to be realy starting to get much more stable.
I think that I am going to need to create a new theme for it so that I can use the same theme as the ubuntu linux usplash to make it look really nice.
I also got the hdaps working (I think) which shows the orientation of the laptop and also parks the hard drive if it started to accelerate too much.
I had some kind soul build a patch to allow htmlarea to use the new forms api that drupal is using. I found this really cool, and I have applied it.
This actually gave me the boost I needed and I fixed up all problems the use of the hook_form_alter() and now is working really great.
ATM HTMLArea is the only WISIWYG editor that will work with Drupal 4.7. I am not sure on the status of the others or how far off they are. I know that tinymce might be a little while as Matt is quite busy ATM, unless he has some kind soul make the change.
Well things didn't go as expected over the weekend. We did get to the show as we hoped, but instead ended up a the doctors.
On Sunday morning besides the present thing we tidied up the garden ready for a the first barbee of the year for Sam's birthday. Once we had finsihed Xander was complaining about sore a eye and when we looked. Well his eye was so swolen the white of his eye was bulging out, so we need to rush him to the doctor.
Basically it turned out to be a very extreme case of hay fever, and we just need to get some eye drops to fix it. But it was kind of scary.
Sams birthday went well and everyone had a lot of fun.
Sometimes you really have to hate hospital waiting lists. I have to go to Hospital to get a couple of lumps removed and last Monday I finally thought that it was going to happen.
Last Monday was actually a good day for me to do this, as Melbourne Cup was the next day and so I only had to take off a single day.
So last Monday after staving all morning and then going through the hasle of getting all signed in. I was then told that my operation had been cancelled. What made it worst was that they had a no show, and didn't get slotted into there.
So after getting mucked around and stuff I am booked in for the 14th to try this again. I hope that this time things don't get stuffed up.
Sams Birthday
On a slightly better note, Samantha will be turning 2 next Sunday. She has already had a bit of a party last Friday when Sarah and the kids had a bit of a party with play group, so we are not going to be doing much.
The one thing we are going to do is go to the Whittlesea Show which is similar to the Royal Melbourne Show except it doesn't cost as much.
I know that this year I have been really slack with pictures, but I am wanting to get the pictures up as soon as I can.
Since I got my X40 back in April, I have always wondered if it had Bluetooth. On the underside it has a label for the bluetooth device, but I couldn't find it. I would run a lspci and I just couldn't identify it.
So the other day I was searching the net and ran across thinkwiki which has alsorts of interesting information. One piece of information was how to activate the bluetooth. Just press fn F5 and this enables the bluetooth under ubuntu linux.
It works really great, and I just need to make some changes to the ubuntu acpi network scripts so that I can cycle through the wire-less networks so I can have 1 turned on and the other not.
Over the last couple of days I have won tickets to 2 movie
premiers. The first which we are going to tomorrow which is
Sky High, and
the other is the Dukes of Hazard which
is next Tuesday.
I am looking forward to the Dukes of Hazard because it is at
the drive in and it will be the first time the kids have been to
a drive in.
Well this is my first entry on the website. Over the next couple of days I hope to update our photos in the image galleries. I realised that it has been many months since we have put any new photos in and the kids have grown so much. My apologies to you all and hopefully I can try to keep it up to date. Gordon seems to be running a bit short of time to do this so I will see if I can keep on top of it. Love to you all.
Well I have finally gotten myself a decent web host. I have moved my web site to dreamhost, and so far I am wondering why I did not do this 12 months ago.
My web site is running much faster and it is Drupal is much better supported with just the standard settings.
Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing quite a bit of work on the PHP RedBack Gateway. At this stage most functionality is working and is working quite well.
The best thing that I have done is that it can now communicate directly with the RedBack Object Server, and the best thing is that it is still 100% PHP. I have not had to do what I thought I was going to need to do and create an extension for my c library to get faster access.
I have been done some testing and from what I can tell it is pretty lean and mean. The most of the time is spent talking to the RBO Server and not the internal processing of the data within the object.
