Author archives: Mike

Tim came over (mostly to play with his laptop), so I decided to play with Gentoo while he was over. In doing so, I compiled a new kernel and copied it to my boot drive... which was suddenly full!

Turns out that reiserfs by default allocates 8000 blocks for its log. The drive is only ...

Tim came over (mostly to play with his laptop), so I decided to play with Gentoo while he was over. In doing so, I compiled a new kernel and copied it to my boot drive... which was suddenly full!

Turns out that reiserfs by default allocates 8000 blocks for its log. The drive is only ...

Spent the first 4 or 5 hours figuring out what the heck went wrong with the dratted ping scanner (which if you will recall was supposed to be working fine on Friday, but which wound up hung for most of the weekend). What was going wrong was that I was doing something like this:

result ...

Spent the first 4 or 5 hours figuring out what the heck went wrong with the dratted ping scanner (which if you will recall was supposed to be working fine on Friday, but which wound up hung for most of the weekend). What was going wrong was that I was doing something like this:

result ...

Got an email today telling me about a TTC puzzle to try and find ~70 English words (no-abbreviations, proper names, contractions, etceteras) formed from just the letters in "TRANSIT". I've got 54 so far (stop reading if you want to try the puzzle yourself):

a, I,
an, it, is, at, in, as, nit,
tan, sit, ...

Eric's code editing is just about perfect; the default keyboard mapping is almost identical to PythonWin (AFAICR only comment/uncomment are different), it deals nicely with TrueType fonts (but it doesn't, for some reason provide bold versions for those fonts which don't have an explicit "bold" version, which is annoying, as my favourite editing font is ...

Eric's code editing is just about perfect; the default keyboard mapping is almost identical to PythonWin (AFAICR only comment/uncomment are different), it deals nicely with TrueType fonts (but it doesn't, for some reason provide bold versions for those fonts which don't have an explicit "bold" version, which is annoying, as my favourite editing font is ...

Grams and I played 1 game of snooker and then 3 of pool. Going to have to brush up on the rules of pool, it's been way too long, and there's at least 2 major variants that we're conflating. Still working on getting Gentoo set up for real work. Eric3 (a Python IDE) is crashing ...

Grams and I played 1 game of snooker and then 3 of pool. Going to have to brush up on the rules of pool, it's been way too long, and there's at least 2 major variants that we're conflating. Still working on getting Gentoo set up for real work. Eric3 (a Python IDE) is crashing ...

Still no luck with getting the binary packages (even with Darryl's suggestion). I'm guessing that something's messed up with my GENTOO_BINHOST setting. Not a huge issue, now that I have KDE up and running I can compile the rest of the packages as I work.