Abscissa’s Page

I hate when sites require a login to post a comment, but I’ve just had to do that here since WordPress’s lack of CAPTCHA has been letting in spam. If WordPress adds CAPTCHAs (good ones), I’ll turn no-login posts back on AND turn off the requirement that comments be approved (Not that I’m a big WordPress fan anyway).

UPDATE (3/29/2007): The Dev-Scene admin has installed the Spam Karma 2 plugin. It’s not CAPTCHA, but may work just fine. I’ve re-enabled no-login comment posting. Yay!

I found (or rather, he found me) a person trying to get D going on the GBA/NDS by combining GDC with devkitARM. I’ve attempted this before a while back (before NDS homebrew, and before GDC eliminated the Java requirement for garbage collection) with partial success (got a limited subset of D working). This has motivated to get back into the project.

I’m on Windows with MSYS/MinGW, the other guy’s on Linux, so hopefully we can get this working on both platforms. I’m a bit behind at the moment though, I’ve lost/forgotten all of the old work I did, and never made notes (like I meant to do), so I’m back at the beginning still trying to get all the necessary tools installed and working right in MSYS. This part is every bit the pain in the ass I remember it to be, hopefully the rest will go smoother this time (should be at least somewhat easier, now that GDC is no longer borrowing it’s garbage collection from Java). But I’m taking notes this time I’ll report on any progress I make.

That’s right. I’m on the phone with them as I type this. Time Warner Cable cannot find my account. They bill us. We receive service. But after half an hour, their tech support absolutely cannot find our account.

EDIT: Holy shit! After transferring me to the correct city, and the post-telephone-menu-system-from-hell recording tells me my wait is “sissy minutes to one hour and seventeen minutes” (Yes, “sissy” minutes. Apparently that’s Time-Warner-speak for “fifty”), the message suddenly blind-sides me with blast of “why didn’t I think of that” common sense: It offered to call me back when my place in the queue reaches an actual rep. So I can actually wait in line without listening to gay music (gay as in Brady Bunch, not gay as in happy or gay as in *cough* homersexual) that gets interrupted every 20 seconds (literally, I timed it) by a canned “Your call is important to us…” (Apperently, recorded messages value phone calls very highly) Well, we’ll see if it actually happens…*fingers cautiously optimistically crossed with a horrifically mixed and adverb-laden metaphor*

My god, my writing is dense.

EDIT 2: They called me back, but still can’t find my account. Of course. Quote of the day: (after reading them my account number) “Wow, that’s a pretty long number. I’ll try it but I don’t know if it will work.” I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m starting to miss Adelphia.