Tuesday August 02, 2005

Today's exercise was to get myself developer-ready for the project I am on. That means I now have Java Studio Enterprise and Sun Studio installed, both for a project I am working on. Of course, I have to get a permanent key instead of a Try & Buy, but procrastination gives me 90 days to remember.

I compiled and installed the mplayer firefox/mozilla plugin. No, that's not my project :) It runs but eventually hangs. Don't know why yet. If someone else has the mplayer plugin for X86, send a link my way. You'll save me some time I'm sure.

The NVidia driver hangs my display when the screensaver kicks in. Actually, I'm not exactly sure when it hangs since I have been out to two meetings and when I come back the screen is (permanently) dark. I think my laptop is telling me my meetings are too long. No argument. Solaris is running because I hear the "boing's" of gaim telling me folks are logging in/out. I should probably notify someone of this bug. Overall the experience is going well. No viruses :)