Archives March 5, 2004
Timing is important (C drive corruption is sucky)
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Vindaloo.
Mozilla just got corrupted this time, plus a few system dlls. Working on moving to the new drive as a result. Oh well. I'm having so much fun formatting and re-formatting, copying and waiting.
Yay new toy! (Well, just a hard-disk, but important nonetheless)
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Snaking.
Ken dropped off the hard-disk a few minutes ago. Suppose I should start planning how to move over to using it. However, for now, work on creating a full-plant simulator in TwistedSNMP. Then track down why we hang with > 3500 modems on a single CMTS, then do something about tomorrow's visit by mom and dad ...
Testing can be a bit of a PITA (But it does tend to make you refactor ugly old code)
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So, how does one test an entire Cable Plant with 7000 modems where the need is to test, not a few modems, but interactions with the entire system, when the system itself can't (obviously) be put into a given state at will (and, in fact, will never get back to the state you need to ...
And there's the cmon instance back (Only 3 levels of seperation left...)
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For some brain-dead reason the zopectl script doesn't take the parent environment's PYTHONPATH for the loaded Zope. Result is that the code was using the old version of the code with the new version of the database. Nice to have movement again. Though now I'm back to the "don't have the failing scanner any more" ...
Oh, and mom and dad are coming by on Saturday (They want to visit Pearl, Rosey and I)
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And grams, must phone her tomorrow to tell her. I'm told that the visit is tentative, though apparently the weather looks good for travel. I doubt you hear that much in Mexico or the Southern states "weather looks good for travel". It's a northern thing I suppose.
Deadlock broken (Yes, gentle readers, the deadlock is broken)
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Finally managed to convince PostgreSQL to import an older version of the database, so I'm now working through various minor glitches (version mismatches) on my way to actually being able to determine whether the old scanner really is hosed... you know, that sounds dumb even to me. I mean, I knew it was hosed already, ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.