Archives April 19, 2005
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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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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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 ...
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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.