Report from the field, 3:

Mostly pretty good news.

• Tab for library added, no code behind it yet though
  
• Improvements to gstreamer data implementation, need to figure out useful data for library.
  
• Seek bar that reflects position, but you can’t use to seek.
  
• Expander to show/hide tabs.
  
• Repeat function.
  
• Playing crashes at end of a song freezes when you double click to choose a song doesn’t pause properly seems to work!
  
• Completed conversion to Glade, now using Glade completely and adding features.
  

/end

To remove fear that my digital camera would not work in Linux which was expressed by some (=p), my current a previous screenshot shows the extremely difficult process I have to use to import photos. In summary, it is something like:

1. Plug in camera, switch on camera
   
2. Click Import Photos on my desktop
   
3. Click the Import button
   

Step 1 is probably the most difficult bit — as the cable is always lost somewhere under the paper on my desk. I’m not sure how this process differs from Windows, probably not by much (Steps 2 and 3 I’m thinking about here, rather than the finding of the cable!).

Report from the field, 2:

Mostly good news.

• Beginnings of gstreamer data implementation.
  
• App crashes at end of a song freezes when you double click to choose a song doesn’t pause properly
  
• Beginnings Solid start of UI conversion to Glade
  

/end

Note : if you want to join the bluefunk hackers drop me an email. Project will probably be on sf.net when it’s nice enough.

So, we’re being taught Evolutionary Computing by a Creationist. Ironic, huh?

Seems kind of weird; but that is probably due to my complete disbelief in creationism rather than any real reason!

It seems that the problem with my computer is the PSU, rather than the hard disk. I say this because the 8-gig stand-in hard disk started doing the same thing as the old hard disk. This happened the morning after I installed Ubuntu on it. The CD-ROM then started repeatedly making the noise it makes on start-up. Careful listening to the hard disk revealed that it was repeatedly spinning up and down. This made me think that perhaps the PSU was doing something weird and cutting off power to the disks repetitively.