Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Woken by J. and H. breakfast; prayer, mail
thrash. Dug at my SuSE ooo builds; it seems Miguel is on
the case - phew. Will is getting on top of the libwpd /
OO.o filter issues nicely it seems; for release shortly.
- Phone call with Amit - straightened out some
e-d-s access issues, some good work going on. Dug at
Excel macro issues in HEAD OO.o, had to get Windows
working to verify results.
- A number of problems
- SuSE install had re-sized (great) the
original XP FAT32 partition making it un-bootable;
later removed the IBM rescue partition since it
was chewing a great chunk of disk.
- Booted from a Win98 CD (no floppy in the
machine), fdisk \mbr - failed to resurrect booting.
- Attempted to install Win98 over the
Windows XP install - mixed results; ended up with an
unbelievably broken NTFS partition and a knackered
Explorer.
- Gave up; re-partitioned the disk using
fdisk (big mistake), set about a fresh / formatted
Win98 install. Fdisk decided to allocate more than
100% of the disk, most of it over the top of my
Linux partition.
- Downloaded misc. ISOs from Novell, but
no CD writer to burn them to anything; had to buy a
'personal' edition copy of SuSE 9 from the
LinuxEmporium - what a stupid state of affairs.
- Bed late, hours of wasted frustrating windows
pain - quite like old times.
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)
