Author archives: Mike

Spending the day working on PyOpenGL. So far a couple of significant bugs and one setup problem fixed. Now starting work on the 2.1.0 branch again.

One of my major goals for 2.1.0 is to make the wrappers more flexible wrt which Numpy versions (if any) are loaded, and potentially to allow for substituting Numarray ...

Was intending to skip it and spend the night working on Cinemon, but I suppose actually talking with Bryan would be a good thing too. Still frustrated with Twisted's documentation. Took a quick break to work on a Job Jar item for the web-checker program.

It's so much easier to work when you have an ...

Frustrating couple of hours here trying to get Twisted to either use a serial port or a TCP port to test the EFT server. Mostly it's frustrating because the API documentation doesn't tell you what methods are doing, what they return, what their arguments should be, how to deal with the results to accomplish common ...

I've been working on other projects for a couple of weeks now, ripping pieces of Cinemon's application framework out and using them for the other projects as I go. Today I took my "day off" to try to move Cinemon forward.

Most of the day was spent working on the hierarchy-importer. That moved forward quite ...

Rosey recently got me a replacement bulb for the halogen floor lamp in my room. This is a 300W bulb, you know, the kind that dorm students will use to cook puff-pastries.

Our kitchen and bathroom windows are without screens, and always open (to cool the place down), and we get very large moth-like things ...

Have been vicariously living through a friend who is extricating herself from a job where the working environment went off the cliff a few months ago. I'm often amazed at how bad communication is in most organisations...

Then, this evening, I realised something; we have a 50% divorce rate. That is, with the simplest dynamic ...

Turns out that the "wacom" kernel module in 2.6 kernels is actually just one of about 5 modules you need to load. With all of them loaded, and some xorg.conf settings copied from a howto, the tablet is again "working" under xorg. However, it still has that annoying habit of getting stuck about 10-20 pixels ...

So, after this evening's "real" work, I decided once again to try to install Gentoo, but this time I went whole-hog and built with the actual 64-bit architecture (which is far less extensively tested than the 32-bit version). Also decided to use the Gentoo reference platform (GRP) to get the bulk of the compiling done ...

Sometime during the week (I think it was Thursday, just before I tried to install Gentoo again, anyway) I was trying to fix the CD-R drive in Windows, which somehow got set to 1x speed (i.e. taking > 1 hour to burn a single CD) when Rosey was using the machine a few weeks ago to ...

Left Gentoo last night compiling xorg-x11 (the base windowing system for Linux machines). About 5 in the morning I wake up to find that the dratted thing has stopped with exactly the same errors-in-gcc's-linker that the wipe-and-recreate were supposed to fix.

Tried to boot back into Windows, and it was giving blue-screens-of-death every time. Pulled ...