This one’s heading for the bin due to the sucky metaphor. But I like the execution, so I thought I’d at least put it on display on the planets.

Oh and yes, lots of GEGL integration action is happening in GIMP. /me does a little cheer leading dance.

Yet another highres icon, shaking in excitement to get converted to the icns format.

Still holding my breath for the patch.

I’ve been struggling to get Linux installed on my macbook pro running 10.4. OpenSUSE installed fine, but rEFIt wouldn’t boot it from either USB or Firewire drive. So I shrunk my HFS+ partition using diskutil patched by the expired beta of Apple Bootcamp. Installed openSUSE, with the rescueCD workaround to get MBR updated and booted. Thinking I am done I ejected the DVD, but then I realized I’ll probably need something installed without grabbing it off the net, I put it back in. Well I though I have, but instead I put in the damn PowerPC DVDRW I failed with on the iMac. It is cursed. Like seriously cursed.

The mac wouldn’t boot. If I let it boot, it showed the rEFIt logo and spin the drive and that’s it. Woudln’t even dim the screen if I closed it. Took about 10seconds holding the power button to actually shut down. I couldn’t eject it holding eject button. It was just a grey screen waiting for the drive before I could do anything useful. Time to disassemble, I thought. Luckily I still had my miniscule Phillips and Torx screwdrivers from my PSP experiments.

So I opened the machine up and disconnected the drive. Booted to OSX. Removed rEFIt. Power down. Attached connector. Booted to OSX. System info shows that no drive connected. Powered off. Made sure the connector is really attached properly. Rebooted. No drive. Wha? Rebooted using the option key to ‘Windows’ (insert MS&Novell deal jokes here). No CD drive under Linux either. Wow. That DVD is really damn cursed. It makes whole drives disappear. Turned off and continued disassembly. Finally got the DVD out and put the machine back together.

How does that make me feel about slot loading drives, Apple? Gah. Now I need to find a way to ritually destroy the damned DVDRW. Suggestions welcome.

Hey guys, I shrunk the kids^Wbutton!

Update:

As per request, here’s a generic SVG of the button.

Yet another password I can’t recall. I have this noname ATA disk frame that can be hooked up to USB or serves the disk over samba/FTP. I think it’s this one, as it’s completely unlabeled (courtesy of google images — “silver ata case usb network” . At least it has a MAC address printed on it, so it was possible to figure out what IP it took after a reset.

I am, however unable to figure out the default login for the web administration. Anyone got the same beast and still has the manual?

Do what you gotta do!

Dear Free-software-loving macheads!

If you want some decent app icons for your Free apps, please patch up Brion’s icns GIMP plugin to properly save to the mac icon format.

Love.