Mircea Bardac /random_thoughts

Happy Easter everybody.

Enjoy yourselves…

Mircea

13:00 today - HP promoter test
I passed it, after having to deal with many hypothetical client problems… I had to take a written test and also a practice test.
It all went OK and now I can say I have my first real part-time job.

The first promoting activity I will take part to will be at CERF 2004 (Computers & Electronics Romanian Fair) - April 20-24, 2004.

This is the first day of the short Easter holiday the students have in Romania. The holiday will end Wednesday, April 14th.
This is a good time to spend some good time in the family but also to prepare for the future mid-terms. Some homework also needs to be done… this is going to be a full holiday.

After ‘managing’ to break my KDE on Friday evening by upgrading from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, I have discovered today that it wasn’t actually my fault. It wasn’t actually broken, but it missed the ‘not built-in themes’, like one really good looking theme: Plastik.

One of the packages (kdeartwork to be more precise) required Qt 3.3.1 because the theme libraries (.so files) were built against it although KDE 3.2.1 can be built against Qt 3.2.3 (according to the requirements). This slight change, also permitted by a missing dependency (Qt 3.3.1 should have been put as a dependency, to the kdeartwork pack or to the kdelibs pack) made me lose almost 2 days (most of the weekend the weekend). In the end, I filed a report to the ArchLinux forums to notify the package maintainers of the missing dependency (and save some other people’s time).

I went to the National Tourism Fair 2004 today to have a look over the possibilities of spending my holidays. I was impressed by the huge number of offers and also by the prices. I’ve returned home with lots of paper-handouts, enough to plan my holidays for the next few years :).

Due to the lack of free time, the handouts are still waiting to be read in a corner of my room.