Archive for September, 2006

But I did it. I am now a proud member of the Free Software Foundation.

I feel good. Really good.

If you owe a lot to Free Software, you should consider becoming a member too.

I am honestly considering becoming a member of the FSF.

120$ USD a year is a little heavy on the wallet, but it would feel right. That would be giving back a little of all the great things I got. I feel like I owe so much to Free Software, most of my passion for Unix was spawned from it…

I still need to think about that… but I think I will. I can probably afford it, even with my student loan which I’m trying to pay back.

One thing is sure, were I to win an obscene amount of money, such as, say, 15 millions, i’d immediately distribute five among my favorite Open Source projects and the FSF.

I mean, what the fuck would I need so much money for? I have no interest in living large. All I ask for is a home, room for my computers, electricty and bandwidth, and a way to pay for all of this. Maybe I’d just build a small datacenter with a phat pipe and lend out rackspace, bandwidth and servers to Free Software projects. I don’t know, anything.

One thing I know for sure is that I’d keep working. I love my job too much.

Well that wasn’t really interesting, was it? I’m tired. I’m off to bed.

By Sithis, where is my gcc 3 for x86?

/usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/cc1plus
/usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3-fast/cc1plus
/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/cc1plus
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/cc1plus

That explains why there’s a crapload of things I can’t build on my intel Mac.

C compiler cannot create executables, yeah well, that makes sense. I guess I could possibly cross compile, but that’s too much hassle. I’ll just have to wait for someone to update the ports.

So if you’re wondering why that occurs to you, it’s because there’s no gcc 3.3 for x86 on OS X 10.4. You have to use gcc 4.

Some clever folks over at ghacks.net found a neat way to download to your heart’s content from microsoft while bypassing the silly WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) check.

Simply put, all you need is the mgadiag.exe tool and the URL you wish to download from.

I tested it and it does work. It goes something like this:

• Run mgadiag.exe
• Look for the Download Center Code, and write it down (ex: 8KLVDJ6)
• Go to the URL you want to download from
• append &Hash=8KLVDJ6 to the URL (replace the value with your own)
• Enjoy your download.

The important part is that it works in Wine. And in the recently released CrossOver Office for Mac OS. See screenshot below.