Archives 2005
Workin' in the free world (Documentation I suppose...)
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Vindaloo.
I'm in ZZZ for a week. So far going fairly well socially, but didn't get any billables done yesterday (though I did catch up on business email and reading), as I spent what time I had trying to get Eric (the Python IDE) installed. It's way too cold to sit outside working, so the puppy ...
Sigh, karked Firefox again (1.0.3 still has the broken dialog windows and now the menus are gone too...)
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Tuxedo.
Firefox just doesn't seem to like this box very much. The upgrade wound up producing this ever-so-cute effect where dialogs show up as error messages, and clicking on "ok" to the error message clicks okay in the original dialog... not ideal for security warnings! That's happened before (bug report dutifully filed), but now even the ...
Just about ready to go (Should be in bed already)
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Vindaloo.
Just the thrill of not sitting in my room all day to work is enough to make me giddy :) . On top of that, get to hang around with a beautiful woman for a week. Apparently I'm getting treated to a movie tomorrow night too. There's even a dog to keep me company while ...
The joys of IMAP (Migration isn't as easy as I was hoping...)
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Tuxedo.
I guess I was a little too confident about this being a simple thing. Turns out that Mozilla can't just migrate local folders over to an IMAP server. Looks as though IMAP can't handle the folders with-messages-and-subfolders. Urgh.
Need to get to bed soon. I think I've got everything I actually need for the trip ...
How many times does it need to recompile? (KDE 3.3 just keeps getting rebuilt)
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Tuxedo.
Just finished work, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but yet another KDE rebuild by glsa-check. You'd think it would just apply all the patches at once and then rebuild... but no...
Oh well, not like I'm actually doing any work on it, it's just annoying to know that it's wasting all that ...
Apparently glsa-check is *not* done automatically with emerge -u (That's surprising...)
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Tuxedo.
This morning I read about a Firefox vulnerability, so I decided I'd run glsa-check to see if there was a fix for it yet (having just finished doing an emerge -avuDt world and not really feeling like doing another sync)... dozens and dozens of un-patched alerts! I'd assumed that using the "u" (update to the ...
The Great Circle of Life and Encyclopedia (Thirst to understand everything...)
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Vindaloo.
I read a lot. I don't read many books any more, however. I read 5 news-aggregation sources with scientific, technological and cultural orientation every day. Then I read a lot more about Python, to keep myself up to date when doing consulting/contracting.
Then there's the stuff that I let myself read every once in a ...
Give the gift of Gentoo (It really is that Christmas-morning feeling that makes it all worthwhile...)
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Tuxedo.
While I've been working, I've had Gentoo working on upgrades and repairs. Mostly I got tired of all the little hacks here and there, so I updated Myth to get the backported patch for the hour-off problem. Then I un-masked Qt 3.4 and un-used a few use flags that would always cause subversion and kde-graphics ...
At least it's not *my* code (Oh, wait, that would be easier...)
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So, armed with my newfound gdb, I tackled the Cinemon crashes that necessitated writing the "zombiewatcher" script. Took about 20 seconds to have the gdb trace... hours and hours to finally decide that it appears to be a FreeBSD+Threading+PyOpenSSL bug. No responses yet from Python list as to whether there's a fix or workaround, ...
Unfamiliarity makes things look harder than they are... (Debugging Python extensions on Linux easier than Win32)
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I sat down intending to do an hour or so of playing with ctypes for OpenGL... 5 hours ago. I can't really begrudge the time, though, because beyond finding a number of minor problems with ctypes on amd64, I learned something I've been avoiding for a while now; learning how to debug C extensions on ...
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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.