Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

To work; turns out my USB key, while having reasonable burst read speeds makes for a thoroughly pathetic root file-system; and while excellent at seeky reads (Alt-F2 doesn't kill the machine grokking .desktop files), is overall slower than a turgid slugnoodle.
Greg Swift reports, that instead of editing my ~/.ssh/known_hosts file I should be doing ssh-keygen -R , which is a good point, though hopefully something I'll have to do a lot less of now.
Started to poke at an interesting bug Thomas Biege threw up. Since my 11.0 OO.o build is broken on 11.1 Beta2, decided to use the new split builds we have in 11.1 - grabbed the OpenOffice_org-libs-gui.src.rpm package (11Mb), and zypper got me another 46Mb of -devel package (we're working on shrinking that too). Realised I need to tweak /usr/lib/ooo3/solver/LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh to add an /opt/icecream/bin to CC & CXX, then: sudo bash -l -c "/usr/bin/rpmbuild --eval '%define jobs 10' -ba SPECS/OpenOffice_org-libs-gui.spec" and bingo, it built for 10 minutes and died with some Java problem; bother (missing some package dep somehow). Luckily I had enough built to debug, and committed some deferred dependency generation speedup before hitting the gdb-is-not-working issue: filed that instead.
Lunch with Laura, back - prodded text; tried to get compiz working on my hardware - eventually it did: a beautiful accelerated experience on top of radeonhd, prodded multi-monitor support too. Prodded wall plugin crasher with David.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2008-10-09: Thursday.