Tuesday, April 20, 2010

EFIS update

While I'm on this business trip to Iceland, I've got some time after work to devote to improving the EFIS software, namely, porting it to gtkmm, so that I can easily hop it over to a linux install, like Xfce. My first attempt was basically a disaster, but then I found Glade.

Glade is a UI designer, it writes out a bit of XML, and then I can load that XML with just a few lines of gtk, display it, and run it. Very similar to the forms builder in C# (or perhaps vice versa)

This jumpstarted the port, and I hope I can chew through this and get the current feature set up and running soon.

Borders suck

I'm in iceland for a business trip. I'm here for two weeks, and I feel 'cut off' from the internet due to streaming rights for media. Apparently, sending packets outside of the US is a freakin crime, so I'm unable to use Hulu, Last.Fm, Pandora, and heck, even isohunt is giving me almost broken UI.

Here's a thought, KNOCK IT OFF.

Either let me use your sites (and serve up ads), or I go 'around' you and download commercial free torrents.

I'm really confused as to why there would be streaming rights confined to a single country or region, same goes for the whole DVD "Region Codes". Don't you want to sell product?