Advogato blog for Adrian

5 Feb 2003

Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:47:19 GMT

First thought would be to add the version of the software into the hash as well. I keep meaning to write a catchall uncaught exception handler that displays the package then reraise the traceback (so I don't have to ask people what version when I get a random traceback).

Being able to do that, and also stamp the traceback with an id could be very handy. Especially with some bug-buddy/bugzilla/etc tweaking.

Of course, double fun would be way to go from the id to at least a rudimentary stack trace, but that would probabaly cause a large id.

But I suspect you could do something like enumerating all the methods, then just using that as the id, so you could get something like 1.0.0-1:1-23-37-111 indicating a stack of method 1, method 23, etc...

Keep around a list of the enumerated methods, and you could get a relatively useful idea where the error is. The method name-> number list could be autogenerated fairly easy I suspect.

Not sure how to handle anonymous methods and lambda's and friends though... Could probabaly just enumerate all the lambdas as well. Not perfect, but close enough.

23 Jan 2003

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:09:32 GMT

Haven't posted here in a long time. Don't do much Open Source development outside of work anymore. Plenty of ideas for things, just lack of time.

Been spending alot of my limited free time recently drawing lots of doodles. Stare into them, and the secrets of life will be revealed. If you look close, you can see a sailboat.

Red Hat Network stuff goes well. Though living in two worlds (distro release schedule, and the web/server side schedule) makes my brain hurt sometimes. Or it could just be staring at RPM too much.

One day I'll get around to actually adding content to bluesoundofdeath.com. Goal is a home for recordings of my random experiments in making as much noise as possible.

23 Mar 2002

Sat, 23 Mar 2002 04:07:00 GMT

xml-rpc interface: Very Nice.

mwh: ooh, proxy support for xmlrpclib! Finally! Getting up2date to work properly with all the various proxies out there was quite an adventure, good to see it baked into 2.2.

Editing in place seems to work to some degree. Handy.

Doh. Spoke too soon, looks like ServerProxy isnt support for web proxies. How silly of me to think so. Guess I have to wait till Greg Stein's proxy and ssl mixins for httplib make it in.

5 Jan 2002

Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:14:33 GMT

Scrap Iron Chef

Let the tivo'ing commence.

19 Oct 2001

Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:20:39 GMT

You know what I love about weblogs? People can say whatever random things they like and pretend that they are correct. And maybe even that people listen. You can even just make stuff up.

In some ways, it's a lot like writing for Wired.

More new stuff on the system tuning page. apache mod_proxy useage, some tcp tuning stuff, listenBacklog. But more importantly, I've started trying to merge the info there to linuxperf.nl.linux.org.

20 Sep 2001

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:16:30 GMT

Slowly getting back into the mood for coding again. Coming off some deadlines, and then last week, kind of threw me for a loop.

In the meantime, been updating my system tuning page again. Added some info about NFS tuning, disk io elevators, pty/ttys, and misc network settings.

7 Aug 2001

Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:38:18 GMT

Ever get in the mood for a pointless long diary update? I do.

klevin

m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

work

about the same I suppose. About to rename a handful of machines in our qa and devel enviroments. Should be interesting to see what all that breaks.

Life

japanairband.com

Webware

It is way too hot outside

music

All excellent

I warned you it was pointless.

16 Jul 2001

Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:32:06 GMT

Looks like some coworkers ( taw, misa), have joined advogato. Of course cturner, DV, and jbj were already here.

Work proceeds as normal. Lots of deadlines. Lots of python coding. More and more SQL. More and more pygtk/glade.

Progress continues on up2date. Spent most of last week fixing a few dozen bugs in it, mostly minor thankfully.

Btw, if your writing python code and not using pychecker. Run now and install it and run it on your code. Very handy. I've taken to adding pychecker targets to our makefiles that build python code.

Looks like the eternal package format wars continue. Software packageing is hard, lets go shopping.

Went and saw Lake Trout a few days ago. Highly recomended. Odd crowd though. Apparently they were sort of a jazzy hippy jam band at one point, but then got sort of electronic, and then lots heavier. Seeing a crowd of about half "hippies" doing that spinny dance thing to the encore of "War Pigs" was interesting, to say the least. Great show, made even better by the fact that my friends' band "Japan Air" opened up and played well.

Also saw the movie "The Score". Not bad. A little predictable, but okay. The "hacker" in the movie included a stuffed penguin on his desk, and at some point was shown typing away at a bash prompt after logging into a "linux 2.0.30" box. 2.0.30? Did they find a copy of 4.2 in a timecapsule or something?

16 May 2001

Wed, 16 May 2001 22:35:38 GMT

A coworker brought in a five pound block of silly putty

If you have ever been curious what five pounds of silly putty looks like: pic1, pic2

I'm not if it was the cold I currently have, or the silly putty that caused today to be mostly unproductive.

23 Apr 2001

Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:59:33 GMT

Slowly getting used to playing the Chapman Stick. It's both easier and harder to play than I expected. Of course, being pretty much tone deaf doesnt help any.

Speaking of being tone deaf, hacked around a bit on GNU Solfege. Mainly just to add support for Chapman Stick in addition to the already existing piano/guitar/base/accordian support. Need to submit the patch here shortly.

Found a picture of Patrick Stewart playing a modified Chapman Stick in Dune. Thats too many geek themes in one picture for my poor little mind to handle.

RHN is keeping me busy. Nice to see people actually using it. I've actually used up2date to update a 6.2 box to a 7.1 box just for kicks, and a couple 7.0->7.1 upgrades. Kind of nifty. Not really "supported" at the moment, but interesting none the less.

Made the mistake of blindly buying a new "Sound Blaster 16" sound card without reading the box with a cynical view. I wanted a card with some degree of hardware midi support, even if it did suck. Turns out the new "Sound Blaster 16" is just yet another relabled ess1371 card. Great. I'll add it to the pile. Borrowed a SB awe32 for the time being.