Archives 2007
Remember to test before un-chrooting (Obvious idea...)
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Tuxedo.
As mentioned I did the kde-monolithic to kde-split update within the aufs-based chroot. Everything built fine, I merged the packages directory and the /etc/portage directory into the root tree and did the update with usepkg in the root.
What I *should* have done is try running from the chroot first. I would have noticed the ...
Chrooted aufs makes a nice Gentoo addition (Compiling and installing while you are running...)
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Tuxedo.
My laptop has been waiting for ages to get the KDE monolithic to KDE split update done. It's just so annoying needing to unmerge the system while you're upgrading. So today I decided to try using aufs to create a chrooted copy-on-write version of the system.
sudo mount -t aufs -o dirs=installroot:/=ro none fakeroot
sudo ...
One more big item off the todo list (Brokers beginning to make sense...)
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Vindaloo.
We have a new apartment at Yonge and Davisville (come the 28th). Just have to drop in and get the paperwork done on Monday. Other than moving we are pretty much finished the "big" items on the "family" todo list. Still a few big individual things for each of us, but we're basically ready to ...
Apartment hunting sucks... (Long day's wandering)
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Vindaloo.
We decided to move to a new place a couple of months ago. Couldn't get anyone to show us a place to which to move until this month (they all wanted to concentrate on the start-of-this-month crowd). So, we've been apartment hunting. 5 working days spent so far.
We thought we were going to close ...
My XO seems to have lost its touchpad (Well, usability on it, anyway...)
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Young Coders.
Showing the laptop to a lady yesterday I discovered that the touchpad/trackpad was misbehaving. Moving the cursor would work as long as I was touching the trackpad, but when I took my finger off the trackpad the cursor would jump back (that is, in the reverse of the direction of motion) a couple of cursor-widths ...
Laptops for Nigeria (Different type...)
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Young Coders.
Came into the "office" this morning to discover a last-minute project in-process. Project was attempting to get a "boxed" Edubuntu configuration that was to be carted over to Nigeria for one of their model schools. 3 hours to build the whole system.
We wound up with just the server (an old laptop) poorly configured, but ...
I'd forgotten how loud normal desktops are! (Rescue machine seems less a gift...)
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Vindaloo.
We have a rescue machine here. Soni gave her (reasonably powerful) workstation to a family member in exchange for their tired old machine. It's a consumer-level Compaq, nothing special and I'm sure quite normal seeming to most people.
But it's driving me nuts! It's so loud and annoying!
As of having to replace the old ...
Compiled GLE DLL for Win32 (For the compiler-less masses...)
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Snaking.
I managed to get the regular Toolkit compilation toolchain all configured and ready-to-go this morning. Result is that we now have a pre-compiled GLE DLL available for Win32 for use with PyOpenGL 3.x. Still missing a pre-compiled TCL/Tk extension (Togl) to get to full coverage of the PyOpenGL 2.x functionality.
Need to look at the ...
Why is finding an accountant online so hard? (Only half a dozen in Toronto?)
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Knight Errant.
Spent another 4 hours on the taxes today, mostly getting the final forms printed on a non-mucked-up printer and then copying in all the values and checking the results. Total cost is getting way up there, around $2175 in time that could have been billable. Just because I wound up waiting for recommended people to ...
Ontario Linux Fest (Introduction to the OLPC)
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Young Coders.
Was invited to speak at the Ontario Linux Fest in October. Needed to write up a biography for it. Seems everywhere I speak to more than a few hundred people they want a biography. Anyway, here it is for the curious:
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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.