Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Chewed mail, amused to notice that the Oracle / Google case is now being pleaded like this:
"While this case awaits trial, more than 700,000 Android-based
devices are activated every day, all fundamentally built around
the copyrighted Java APIs"
It's clear that this is a far more significant case than a simple patent
feud as I
noted at the start, surely Oracle won't pull down the API interoperability
edifice on their own heads ?
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Dug at pensions, amused to discover that the 'better', 'new' corporate
pension has a 10% higher (0.75 to 0.85%) commission rate, and pays a small
fortune to the intermediaries annually, more than I've ever seen before. Who
negotiates these things ? set out to find out.
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Downloaded and played with Dr.
Memory - Google's (gratuitous and unfortunate) re-write of valgrind - still,
it works for windows, and it shows another huge slew of issues we need to
incrementally fix (destroying GDI objects in the wrong order eg.):
drmemory -no_count_leaks -ignore_asserts -no_check_gdi -no_check_uninitialized -- soffice.exe
Got me a useful trace, though drmemory itself seems incredibly crash-prone,
making it a delicate task to get through to the point of the real bug, eg.
exiting the file-selector crashes it. Finally found the Uniscribe code doing
some bad things.
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Unamused to see Gerv getting duffed up for being different; apparently
'diversity of opinion' is proving unexpectedly hard to embrace in some parts of
Mozilla land.
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Really pleased to enjoy Jesus' video about How to Debug LibreOffice on
Windows, extremly helpful. Jesus windows hero Corrius also started
building and up-loading LibreOffice
Windows debug builds which should be extremely helpful.
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Met with Dave in the evening, much fun & Bible study too.
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)
