Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up late: read My
Harddrive Died! - lots of pretty pictures & catharsis for
those with the click-of-death. Wrote some notes for Kohei wrt. fixing
really stupid performance problems in calc; fun.
- Poked at the libicudata.so.36 included in OO.o - interestingly
this has grown from 3.8Mb in OO.o 2.1 to 6.4Mb in OO.o 2.3: progress
indeed. Apparently it includes locale information for hundreds of
locales; of course most users use only one. Perhaps it's ripe for a
localedata type split.
- Pleased to see the Sun / IBM
announcement - and (of course) the associated rise in Sun stock.
Apparently the markets knew what was already obvious to outsiders:
that these guys share a common enemy; and finding management willing
to re-evaluate Sun's traditional totems represents "a tectonic shift"
and one that is long overdue. Of course the really interesting
question is, when will Sun fix the OO.o structures such that IBM (and
others) can invest in it with confidence ? The idea (even necessity) of
collaborating with your competitors during product development
needs to take firmer root there it seems.
- Managed to spill coffee into my Thinkpad T60p laptop,
(thank God) from the right hand side (over the DVD drive). Pulled
the plug on IM midway through a conversation; unplugged, mercifully
(thanks Calyx) I had experience with keyboard disassembly from the
Icelandic keyboard I received initially; wipped it off, wiped
everything, blew the rest out with compressed air: and it still
works, wow; an improvement over my previous keyboard/coffee-killing
experience with a vt220.
- Also great to see Gnome's 10'th
Birthday. Digging back, it seems my earliest commit - solubility.c for
gmahjongg was Jun 11th, 1998, in good company with Federico, jrb, Erik
Troan, even Tom Tromey.
- Dug at some twisted OO.o / Gnome / a11y / threading issue:
already fixed in HEAD it seems. Pulled up to m225. Fixed relocate to
remove .dpobj dependency files: yet another, obvious 1 line patch that
has to go through the CWS process: nice.
- Burned the CPU build/testing the new vcl virtual sizing
API, and discovered an interesting bug in the svtools/ AWT
implementations, dug at them a bit.
- Call with Zaheda, out for a run with Julia, fixed a brace
of layout bugs afterwards, 'zoom' looks incrementally much better.
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)
