Author archives: Mike

Today I committed to the PySNMP 4.x approach and began coding in earnest. Amazing how much faster things go when you have a commitment to the approach, you aren't constantly backing up and saying "wait a minute, shouldn't there be a better way", you just plow ahead and let the chips fall as they might. ...

By the time I got down to the Linux Caffe (at 7:15) it was already closed. There were still a few customers hanging out, (including the very quiet girl from UU), but no Python programming workshop that I could see. Very disappointing.

The DNS failures continue to make working on the machine a serious PITA. ...

I've been working on testing the routers for the VOIP project. Somehow, though, the DNS resolution has been hosed in doing it. I gather it was something to do with swapping routers in and out all the time, but whatever caused it I now have DNS service maybe 1/2 of the time, and when I ...

I
Resist
Calling

I wonder why

I
Resist
Feeling

I wonder how

I
Resist
Crying

I wonder how long

I (can)
Resist
Screaming

Rosey got her first call for an interview all of a couple of minutes after the form that makes her an official employee was entered into the computer. Apparently the French teacher shortage is not exaggerated. Good luck with the interview, Rose!

Turns out that annoying image-to-texture failure was actually just a messed up compile on my machine. Anyway, OpenGL-ctypes now has image handling working under OpenGLContext. Spent some time trying to get the GLUT bitmap fonts working. So far no luck.

The GLUT declaration (on GLX machines) looks like this:

	GLUTAPI void *glutBitmap9By15;
	#define GLUT_BITMAP_9_BY_15		(&glutBitmap9By15) ...

Linux Caffe is a very pleasant little environment. I'd been thinking of a very different environment, all little nooks and crannies, with insular little booths and some back-room environment for meetings. It's actually a single room with a long 'working bar' and a set of meeting/talking tables. Very clean-well-lighted family feel to the place.

Rather ...

Don't forget that tonight (Tuesday) is the PyGTA meeting, the first at our new venue. Be there.

Spent the rest of the evening on the VOIP platform, mostly going through the whole process of registering someone, setting up the hardware, testing that the hardware works, that they can call, that they can get voicemail, and little things like that. It did not go spectacularly well. I think many of the problems were ...

As mentioned a few weeks ago, had a few interesting ideas for new companies. We're looking into one of those now, bringing in friends with experience in starting and running larger companies to kick the tires and tell us what's needed to get to the next step. It's rather fun.

The weird thing is that, ...