…just another hippy blog

    “http://movida.sourceforge.net/screenshots/screenshot.php?thumbnail=smartview070222″ style=”MARGIN: 10px” title=
“The new Movida Smart View” align=”left” alt=”The new Movida Smart View” border=”1″ /> The Sourceforge.net shell service is still
down so I have no way to upadate the website for Movida (a cross platform
GPLed movie collection manager I started coding about 500 years ago).

This is a good excuse to start one of hopefully several posts on the development status of Movida. A public preview is expected for the
end of the month. This would be the first one since I started rewriting Movida to use the new Qt4.

Today I started working on a new view that will display movies and possibly other stuff in future.

Existing collection managers have two standard views: a details view (a trivial tree widget) and a quite useless icon view.

The main hassle with these views is the level of detail: the tree widget usually displays too much data on a single screen page (thus
resulting too distracting) whereas the icon view displays no information at all.

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Another funny error message from Visual Studio .net 2005. I love you Microsoft guys, seriously.

It sure takes lots of talent to write applications that generate such artistically challenging error messages (whatever this sentence might mean… I’m too tired to write two sentences that make sense in a row).

Ok, quit the intro. Here is the core of the 2K long error message:

[…]\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\xstring(1014) : fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler.
(compiler file ‘msc1.cpp’, line 1392)
To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program near the locations listed above.

It seems like I will have to spend some time simplifying the .net C++ compiler source code because the good guys at Microsoft were too busy coding the 5D neural network graphics processor powered eye candies for Vista (wow, that was a long sentence! let’s make it longer with this note!).

I wonder if google will help me find the source code for the compiler…

So, ladies and gentlemen (young and good looking ladies please contact the author of this post), here comes the full error message:

C:\Program files\Development\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\xstring(1014) : fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler.
(compiler file ‘msc1.cpp’, line 1392)
To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program near the locations listed above.
Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information
C:\Program files\Development\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\xstring(1000) : while compiling class template member function ’std::basic_stringgt; &std::basic_stringgt;::assign(const std::basic_stringgt; &,unsigned int,unsigned int)’
with
[
_Elem=char,
_Traits=std::char_traitsgt;,
_Ax=std::_DebugHeapAllocatorgt;
]
C:\Program files\Development\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\xdebug(111) : see reference to class template instantiation ’std::basic_stringgt;’ being compiled
with
[
_Elem=char,
_Traits=std::char_traitsgt;,
_Ax=std::_DebugHeapAllocatorgt;
]

Born In The USA
Originally uploaded by hippy.dream.

I have finally managed to install the latest OpenSuSe distro on my laptop. KDE is evolving quite fast and I think that SuSe is one of the most user friendly distros right now.

I was going to update my desktop with the latest SuSe too.. but I had my usual bunch of problems. First the installer wouldn’t even load. I supposed there was some problem with my bios, so I had to check that too. A bios update solved my problem.

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Talk (Alpha)
(by hippy.dream).

Warning: this is another i-fcinukg-htae-mciosrfot post

Btw. you already knew that our stupid little brain is capable of reading words with all but the first and the last letters misplaced, didn’t you?

Let’s be serious today. One of the worlds biggest corporations, with about 71,000 employees and 283.7 billion USD market capitalization in 2006 (source) cannot sell a piece of crap like Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for about 799 USD (Professional edition, source Microsoft estimated retail price - March 21, 2005)!!

No, don’t worry, I did not buy that crap! I had a free student licence from my university.. and I suppose they didn’t get it for free.

VS .net might be one of the best IDE on Windows if you are going to develop in C++ or C#, but it can really drive me nuts!!

Something really bad happened this night and my debugger won’t run any more.

But here is the funny error message I get (in differently styled message boxes each time it crashes.. that’s so cool guys, thank you!):

A serious internal error occurred while processing this command.

I wonder what damn command it’s talking about. Maybe a “dir c:\”? A “format c:\”? Or a “please kill my pc it doesn’t want to suffer any more!”?
I only remember I was saving a file while VS was building my project. I’m such a fool! How could I dare…!! I know I did this hundreds of times, but.. VS has had enough of me now.

The debugger may be unstable now, […]

What debugger is it talking about now? The only debugger I have just crashed!! Oh, maybe this is another form of “unstable” process.

Well, I have no clue now. A full rebuild wouldn’t solve the problem. Ratts!!

Microsoft CEOs, no offence, but… you SUCK!!!!!!!!!

P.S.: This is the first post made using flickr’s cool blogging tools! Great feature guys! I just needed to add some categories and this p.s. because I forgot it.

Photo by ” Runs With Scissors” - Creative Commons licensed

I’ve missed the QDevBlog today (or rather yesterday, since midnight is over by a while) and what did I miss? Nothing really important. Uma Thurman still won’t answer to my love letters, ratts!

Ok, seriously, the first Qt Jambi beta has been released. The QDevBlog entry contains some more details but it’s far to late for me to try it out.

I would need at least 236mg more caffeine and 2 triple chocolate muffins. More would be deadly - ever heard of “triple chocolate muffin overdose”? It’s one of the most common causes of death in Ireland. The first one is Guinness overdose, no doubt ;).

Well, don’t move to a planet without Internet connection (unless uma thurman does) or you might miss my jambi beta post with lots of bikinis and dancing bellies.