September 2009 Archives

When you try to install X11::GUITest on a fresh installation of Ubuntu Linux, you will get the following error:

GUITest.xs:41:27: error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory

GUITest.xs:42:28: error: X11/StringDefs.h: No such file or directory

make: *** [GUITest.o] Error 1

To fix it, you must install first the X.Org X Window System development libraries: 

sudo apt-get install xorg-dev

And then issue again the usual installation commands:

perl Makefile.PL

make

make test

make install

I have notified this issue to the module author, and asked him to update the Readme.

One month ago, shortly after the YAPC::EU 2009, my MacBook's hard disk died due to a head crash with only 2 years and 2 months. I used it intensively, but didn't expect such a short life.

                                                          Farewell, Seagate ST9160821AS

It could have been worse (e.g., a battery blast on my lap... ouch! I always use a lapdesk since I considered this possibility, not as remote as you might think, given the latest news related to explosions of Apple products), but I lost a lot of info, mainly blog posts related to programming. Fortunately, I had a backup of the most important stuff. The really good news is that now I will only need another two hundred years to process what's left (the disk failure trimmed around half a millennium from my backlog).

Anyway, I've already installed a new HD, a Seagate ST9500420ASG with 500 GB capacity and I should receive Snow Leopard anytime soon.