Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrow

I am quite surprised at how out of date a lot of the macports python packages are.  I can’t think of a single reason why anyone would still be using python 2.4 instead of 2.5 (nothing was deprecated and I haven’t heard of a single package that worked in 2.4 but does not in 2.5) but the bulk of the python category is taken up with old 2.4 versions of various modules and packages.  I am chalking this one up to laziness and a lack of interest on someone’s part, because it has taken me only a couple of days to whip up around 30 local portfiles that upgrade various modules to 2.5 versions and also get the most recent version of the package in question.

I guess it is time to sign up as a maintainer and push some new portfiles into the repo.

Cydia sucks.

After spending last week enduring repeated reboots, boot freezes, and all around suckage (along with at least 10 different restores of the entire phone OS and data) I have decided that the iPhone jailbreak is neither stable enough to use nor worth the effort.

Before the 2.0 OS and App Store I used the old jailbreak to turn my iPhone into something more useful than it was without the non-Apple ecosystem.  Now, everything that I used and found useful about the jailbreak apps is available (or in the queue for approval) from the App Store so the headache is just not worth it.  I will be watching to see if my copy of NetShare gets deactivated if Apple eventually decides to pull that app, but as long as it stays on my phone I can’t think of a compelling reason to bother with the jailbreak and that horrible POS called Cydia.

BTW, did I mention just how much Cydia sucks?

Olympic observation of the day:  synchronized 10m platform diving is a bit of a weird sport, but after having watched this while waiting for the 200M freestyle medal swims I found it to be a lot more interesting to watch than regular platform diving.  In regular diving I can’t really tell anything about how something will be judged other than to see how big the splash is; big splash == low score. By the last round of the synch diving competition I was able to make easy judgements on how closely synced the two divers were and having the second diver as a comparator made it a lot easier to notice certain details like tuck position and how vertical the diver was while they were still in the air.  With regular diving I only notice this when the commentator shows the dive in slo-mo, but in syncronized diving it seemed much more apparent and I was able to make a guess at what the score would be before the divers surfaced.

I guess having a wordpress installation that was so out of date that I was easy pickings when the first big security problem for the platform hit is a good excuse to reset the blog and try to keep it up to date or at least relevant to my life.