Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up early; still exhausted with jet-lag. Pulled
mail (very, very slowly) pop + forking spamassassin per
recieved E-mail not very good; I need to dig at spamd
apparently. It seems the spamassassin package on SuSE9
doesn't start spamd correctly, filed bugs / talked to
Radek.
- Hit an evo-data-server deadlock; one of those
lock/.../lock ones missing an 'un'; good, committed a fix.
Pleasant phone-call with Krishnan, seems to be doing lots
of good stuff. Set off new builds of ooo 1.0.50 for
the snapshot channel. Finally added --local to
/etc/init.d/spamd to stop several network roundtrips per
E-mail fetched for a nice speedup.
- Bought a shed-load of plumbing kit in my
lunch break - this evening's trick: turning the water off
and burning the house down. Interviewed someone good; good.
Fixed an ORBit2, libbonobo bug or two, did a libbonobo-2.5.4
release.
- Used readahead in the OO.o pagein app instead of
madvise as per Rob's advice - possibly faster; who knows.
- Knocked off for dinner (accidentally missing an
interesting conference call); J. off to counselling training,
H. to bed, set about the plumbing.
- Cut a 2"x4" hole in the concrete floor around the
pipe, sawed the pipe off at the floor, spent a good while
undoing misc. compression joints. Pipe in an aweful state -
very thin and corroded, spent a long time trying to clean it
up fairly unsuccessfully - fluxed / tinned it; tinned a new
length, soldered joint in - turned water back on; leaky as
anything. Re-heated, thanked God after a few minutes and some
lovely steam that I'd not left the isolator shut; really went
for it with the blow-lamp; finally some capiliary action, and
a water-tight joint. Still no bathroom hot tap, but
washing-machine / shower back in business. J. pleased - no
leakage overnight - good. The only real solution is to re-plumb
it all though - above ground this time. Bed.
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)
