Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up lateish; mail unavailable, poked at OO.o icons
some more; pushed a new 'best yet' OO.o 1.1 snapshot to the
red-carpet channel. SuSE packages failed due to not having
mozilla installed; fixed misc. bits in the build scripts.
- Out for a picnic lunch in Thetford forest by a
river with Bruce and Anne, very pleasant. Back, worked on a
stupid deadlock crippling Gnome on Solaris.
- Got a whack of paper-work - it seems I should never
have avoided filling out the W-8BEN and getting an ITIN for that
$6 royalty check; what a royal pain. At least the estimated time
to complete this form is only ~14 hours: very suspicious of the
'5hr., 58min.' estimate for Recordkeeping - it seems the IRS
employs a used-car salesman to do their guestimation. I'm all for
democracy, but applying market forces to tax collection by billing
the IRS for wasted time, would result in an immediate improvement
in efficiency.
- Federico discovered OO.o hooking out it's window
icons by a dlopen (NULL, ...); dlsym (["%s%d", magic, index])
horror in vcl's soicon.c - magic design.
- Merged and polished up Chris' nice patch to save
1.5G(iga) bytes of disk space on a (fully i18nized) OO.o build;
nice indeed. Finally got everything from 1.0.3 ported to 1.1RC3,
assuming my metric fonts work works. Worked late.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
