It's now or never.

[reddragdiva]

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It's interesting watching the social networks reform themselves on DreamWidth. I'm somewhat surprised that the first one I'm seeing reform en masse is the BOFHs. Many of whom I lured to LJ in the first place. Though the bi-polys are catching up.

redcountess is out seeing Coraline with Neil Gaiman doing a talk.

It's a lovely evening! I just took Freda down the shops.

One day we will have a toilet that doesn't have an infinitely deep gateway to the underworld in the floor.

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[nop]

The SAVE VISTA Facebook group has 25 members! Saving Vista is the best thing for the whole computer world! Tell your friends! Join today!

Yer a sick fuck.

It's interesting watching the social networks reform themselves on DreamWidth. I'm somewhat surprised that the first one I'm seeing reform en masse is the BOFHs.

That's because Russ asked us on BOFHnet.

Many of whom I lured to LJ in the first place.

Oh, so it's *your* fault!

Though the bi-polys are catching up.

Hrmph. I couldn't possibly comment.

[info]redcountess is out seeing Coraline with Neil Gaiman doing a talk.
It's a lovely evening! I just took Freda down the shops.

How much did you get for her?

One day we will have a toilet that doesn't have an infinitely deep gateway to the underworld in the floor.

Hell, dare to dream. dude. ;^)

[reddragdiva]

That's only the start of the sickness.

OMFG!

[nop]

This is both sick & wrong. I forbid you to do it! DO YOU HEAR ME?!?!

I hope you're goddamned ashamed of yourself!

[nop]

Wine on MinGW

MinGW is not a complete subsystem - it's the GNU tools ported to Windows, to build software that uses them natively. With more or less source patching. There is an optional shell, MSYS, which is derived from Cygwin.
The main problem here is X11 libs. The donation-paid version of Xming comes with Xlibs, but not the free version (see the build notes and you'll see what he wants a donation for). Compiling X11 in MinGW is fraught, as it really stresses what a POSIX implementation can supply.
Status
Current results are not great.

DavidGerard tried:

* install mingw
* install msys - http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys
o MSYS 1.0.10 (.exe)
o MSYS DTK (.exe)
o MSYS Core 1.0.11 (tarball - you can untar it from inside MSYS)
* install from MSYS base system http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=24963
o bash
o coreutils
o m4
o autoconf, automake, libtool - these need updating from the DTK versions! Need autoconf 2.57 or higher for X11.
o bison
o flex
o regex
./configure --without-x --without-freetype runs, make depend bombs out with:
...
../../../tools/makedep -C. -S../../.. -T../../.. cred.c crypt.c crypt_lmhash.c crypt_md4.c crypt_md5.c crypt_sha.c lsa.c registry.c security.c service.c
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fun/wine-1.1.11/dlls/advapi32/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/fun/wine-1.1.11/dlls/advapi32/tests'
Makefile:442: *** unterminated variable reference. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fun/wine-1.1.11/dlls/advapi32/tests'
make[1]: *** [advapi32/tests/__depend__] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fun/wine-1.1.11/dlls'
make: *** [dlls/__depend__] Error 2
If I haven't already called you a commie prevert, I'm calling you one now!

[lproven.livejournal.com]

> It's interesting watching the social networks reform themselves on DreamWidth.

One thing I don't quite understand - er, well, *why*?

I have a VOX a/c I never use. I have Blogger IDs and so on, just for commenting, tho' OpenID is making that less & less necessary.

But what's the point of yet another LJ-codebase blogging site? Between LJ, Vox, DeadJournal, GreatestJournal, etc. etc., I see no actual use in the extras...

[reddragdiva]

Because I can and everyone else is, mostly. Dual posting to LJ saves me from actual effort. (Much as my non-response tweets go to Facebook automatically.)

[eagle]

I posted a long message about this to alt.poly which is probably a better answer, but the short answer on the non-technical side is http://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/diversity.bml and they really mean it.

The short answer on the technical side is that they're actually running an open source project in a meaningful way.

[topbit.livejournal.com]

I think I may have originally found LJ myself from someone in the monastery.

[gths.livejournal.com]

ahh it's like a horrible pub crawl where someone's finally blown the whistle