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It has almost been a month here. My contract with Nokia was updated and this means two more (and possibly more) months.

Spent the weekend in Tallinn, Ruben and other Go employees were celebrating May’s birthdays and after many adventures (between the other clubs, I was taken to the secret underground gay-club ;)) I eventually ended up having an awful hangover for the whole Saturday. To make things even worse I managed to get quite angry due to some unfortunate happenings which I just misinterpreted. Life is tough sometimes.
I also had some time to create a l10n-support patch for Web package during boat trip… Hopefully it gets accepted like the previous patches for Contacts and Dates.

As the May is almost over, the plans for June are to visit Saaremaa at least once, Guadec 2006 and Spain and of course - get an internet connection so I could do some freelancing stuff and also catch up on translating Gnome…

Just spent ~1,5 hours trying to figure out why the Subversion wasn’t picking up the specified proxy settings. I had checked the configuration files over and over and just didn’t spot the obvious mistake…
Who doesn’t yet know where subversion client stores it’s proxy configuration (for different servers), then there is file for these settings located $HOME/.subversion/servers.
Can you spot the problem?

### In this section, the URL of the repository you're trying to
### access is matched against the patterns on the right. If a
### match is found, the server info is from the section with the
### corresponding name.
[groups]
group1 = *.server.I.use.a.lot


### Information for the first group:
# [group1]
http-proxy-host = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
http-proxy-port = xxx
# http-proxy-username = blah
# http-proxy-password = doubleblah
# http-timeout = 60
# neon-debug-mask = 130

Solution follows…
(more…)

Sometimes the nature takes its toll: “All departures cancelled…“.
Fortunately I hadn’t made any detailed plans But still sucks

Also noticed that information about Estonian locale in glibc is quite outdated… Need to fix this soon. Discovered it mainly thanks to 770 which uses some information from the locale

It all started quite fine - I didn’t get my official badge, so I had to send a “knock-knock” SMS-s to project manager and other guys (finally got it on 5th day because, on the fourth day when I was handed my badge I noticed a typo in my first name and mentioned it, so they took it back ;)) and of course no access credentials for the email and other stuff (as I write this entry, I still haven’t got them :)). At least I got a computer to work with, although no password for it (I later just emptied the hard drive and populated it with something that works - Ubuntu. Actually I was quite surprised to find out that everything worked out of the box - even the wireless and 3D stuff).
So I spent my first day trying to get myself acquainted with my working environment. Thankfully my workmate Riku provided me all the required information about the local proxies and also the unofficial tip about the corkscrew tool
Now it’s already the first day of the third week and I’m quite satisfied with the working environment. Food here is good (although a bit expensive compared to the Estonian prices ;)) and I guess healthy too.
So I’m happy, and you should be too

When it comes to non-work stuff, I have sent some patches for the GNOME and also tried to implement some bluetooth stuff (fortunately smarter guys said that I should find a better place other than Gnome-VFS). I still do not have internet connection in my apartment and currently have no plans to get it (mainly because of the cost, because I do not know how long I’m going stay in Finland).

This is just a small note how to add new toolchains for the Scratchbox on Gentoo system. Current implementation still sucks, but things will hopefully improve soon

1. Get an ebuild from b.g.o
2. Add links of toolchains to SRC_URI or download the toolchain to distfiles directory and add just a filename there
3. ebuild name-of-the-ebuild digest
4. emerge scratchbox

If everything went OK, you now have new toolkit options available when creating a new target.

[Update]
Kudos to Spyderous, Gentoo now has Xephyr in portage Still masked, but works