Author archives: Mike

Just finishing up the 2.0.1.09 release of PyOpenGL. Rather annoying number of little details cropped up during the process of doing the release (missing files, bdist_wininst API not actually matching the API I'd suggested, (so requiring rewriting the function (after all the testing was done, of course, so blah if it breaks something)), files ...

Crossed off three todo items, though looking back at them, they probably weren't the most important ones, they were just the ones that were annoying the heck out of me. All of them relate to the topological overview graphs.

Until today, you could only identify the root of these graphs by knowing what elements are ...

Bryan found a bug in Cinemon this evening. It didn't pick up a modem migration event (modems changing channels). Turns out this was a trivial error; I'd mis-spelled a function name in a callback that only gets called 20 minutes into a run (and thus I was never around when it got called). The result ...

Spent much of the day staring at PySNMP code looking for something (anything!) that would make it faster without necessitating a bulk rewrite in C. Then gave in and started looking at what would be necessary to use net-snmp as an encoder/decoder for TwistedSNMP.

A few hours of tracking down and copying the various structures ...

As I promised various users, spent much of the free time on the weekend on PyOpenGL, basically just working through the list of outstanding bugs. Nothing spectacular or new, just making things work the way they should.

Anyway, it's ready for a new release, but I don't want to be doing the release this late ...

While testing some memory-leak bug-fixes for PyOpenGL I discovered a memory leak in OpenGLContext. With a lot of tracking I found out that the leak was from Dispatcher.

Now, you may not care about that (I'm speaking to Bryan and Tim here), but Dispatcher is also used in Cinemon (which you will recall is currently ...

The hypothesis goes like this:

The two forms of memory, "lossless" and "lossy" have complementary function. Lossless memory tends to produce individuals who are more concrete (because they can recall random data associated with individual objects/situations), less creative and less abstract, while lossy memory tends to produce those who are better at synthesis, creativity and ...

Met quite a few people. Shane brought... well... lots of people, including two ladies he'd met at a Second Cup. Very interesting both, one is a postmodern philosopher, but with a reasonable (read agreeing with me ;) ) perspective on the overall utility of the ideology. The other is a cultural anthropologist.

Both quite charming ...

Had another conversation tonight that involved someone having bought into the competitive model of society. This is the area of thought that is often described as "right wing", and includes Rand and Smith's "Guiding Hand".

It builds from the idea that the only way to accomplish anything is through force, with force including coercion. With ...

For each group (say 50 groups), for each field (6 fields), for each modem in each group (2500 down to 4 or 5), collect the min, max, mean, and total. Problem is, even summarising 1 field for a 500 modem group is taking a long time (i.e. a second or more).

I'm obviously just doing ...