Thursday, December 17, 2009

More firefox junkiness, new python project

Ever since I decided to remove firefox on my desktop, I have had functionality problems since webkitgtk just doesn't like certain sites. Trying to debug whatever the problem is using gdb is not going to work very well. So I am playing the waiting game with webkitgtk. The way I have coped is by using X11 forwarding over ssh onto my desktop from my laptop with firefox. Now, it can't do flash very quickly, but I can go to my laptop for videos and such. It's just when I need the Internet that I can't keep turning to it (it's behind me).

Today, five times in a row, firefox crashed on me. So I compiled a debugging version of firefox. Maybe I can start actually being useful instead of complaining to the wall. Maybe not. But at least I extended a package for my distro that I might submit later.

I'm also starting on a python project. I want to make a database system. This is strictly a project for my own personal amusement to understand databases. And to learn python. Mostly learn python. So far I finally wrote a function to separate a row by a delimiter. That's probably more than I've done for the past month.

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