tkh’s blog

Movable Type

I knew that SixApart has changed the license for MovableType and it caused a big controversy, but I haven’t read it until recently. I think it is too restrictive and it affects my usage. I run three blogs using MT for my brother, wife and me. This is an unacceptable usage for MT 3.0, though it is still OK to use MT 2.661. So, I can’t upgrade to 3.0.

When I chose MT, the incentive was the ability to manage multiple blogs with one installation. I surveyed alternatives, but none of them had this capability at that time. I had thought that MT might have changed the license, but I compromised it for a better functionality. Now, it turned out that my decision was really bad…

Since migrating an exisiting blog to a new system requires nontrivial database operations, I’m reluctant to do it, but once I find a good alternative which is licensed under GPL, I would be happy to do it.

Web Access Analyzer

I fixed the awstats config and restored all the log entries while it had been down. I’m not completely satisfied with the functionality of awstats, but I does 90% of what I want, so I don’t want to waste my time to research on alternative tools.

Migemo

I’ve been translating a book into Japanese and it was so frustrating that I wasn’t able to do incremental search for Japanese characters in emacs. I searched on the web about this issue and found that Migemo can incrementally search Japanese text without converting a search keyword into Japanese. I installed it, and it works pretty well. It’s so easy to find a desired word in a long text file.

It turned out that I can do increment search for Japanese words by typing Ctrl-s Enter key, but I still like Migemo since it can find a word that is splitted at the end of a line.

Virtual Desktop

I installed Desktop Manager. It’s a virtual desktop application for Mac OS X. It’s definitely useful for those who have low-res Macs like me. Of course it does cross fading during desktop transition.

Gnome 2.6

About a week ago, gnome 2.6 was uploaded to debian sid. Since then I have an issuel during log in process. When I log in, the gnome splash screen appears and the X session is frozen for about a minute. Then all gnome apps are loaded and I can do my work. According to the thread at debian-gtk-gnome mailing list, you may be able to fix it by removing some entries in ~/.gnome2/session. I tried it, but didn’t work. I’ll keep logging in until the issue is fixed.

Dynamic Libraries on OS X

Finally I figured out all about dynamic libraries on Mac OS X. First, you must use a variant of dynamic libraries called “bundle” to dynamically call library functions with dlopen() and dlsym(). To build a bundle, you must specify “-bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress” compile options. If you just link a shared library at compile time, you are fine with “dylib.” Dylib can be built using “-dynamiclib -flat_namespce -undefined suppress.” It’s so confusing that Apple doesn’t state they differences of bundles and dylibs. Also you can’t use GNU libtool to build a bundle because it ignores -bundle option. libtool is of no use on Mac if it can’t support all types of dynamic libraries.