Older blog entries for daniels (starting at number 113)

MoulDAVia
Finally pulling close to a release; just needs some good, solid testing.

Winamp3
Awesome. Great architecture, great Wasabi. The Zygote skin is pretty stunning, a testament to the stupid amount of flexibility allowed. (That's a compliment, BTW).

Home internet
Still waiting ...

Restaurants
Expensive restaurants kick arse when someone else pays for it. Had the best lamb/ravioli combo I will ever have in my life, it was absolutely superb. They also had James Squire Amber Ale (one of the best beers known to mankind; hell, even Mum likes it), which is always a bonus. Shame it was $6 a pop, but then again, I don't really care. :)

IO-bound
Mum has a Duron 1.2GHz here, with 512meg of RAM. This should *not* lock up completely when copying across a CD's worth of stuff to the hard drive. I mean, it wasn't possible to do anything else. Unless everything was in swap (including the apps I used about 15sec beforehand), I don't see why; the system being completely IO-bound and everything being in swap is the only explanation I can think of, unless it tried to buffer the entire contents of the CD to RAM. Sigh.

BitKeeper
Larry McVoy, by his recent actions on l-k over the last few days, has proven BK to be a monumentally bad choice for the kernel. Then again, there are few *good* choices Linus has ever made wrt the kernel ...
Update: See this Slashdot thread to see how caring BitMover are. Thanks for the link, bhat.

School
Went back to school today, whoohoo! Much fun abounds. Feels kinda strange being back there, even if there are only another 9 school days left (then exams) ... hm.

Hi, Tim. ;)

Liedra: Since your article has now vanished from the front page, a direct link would probably be useful. FWIW, there's a KDE frontend to MPlayer, called KumaPlayer, but it's still in beta. However, it appears to work really well, and even has a KPart, so you can embed it in apps like Konq.

iTunes
iTunes rocks. There is no way I could ever stop using it.

Home internet
Non-existant, *sigh*. This has meant my work on Kopete has been non-existant (can't get access to any other form of IM than IRC from work, so can't do it even off company time), and my work on the LUV site has been severely stifled. Organizing cable or DSL, but the wheels of stupid telcos turn slowly, very slowly.

Heh. Saw this on linux-kernel (by Rusty, so always amusing), a while ago, but then it got lost when Rusty moved his stuff off netfilter.*.org. Finally found it again, at OzLabs. It's a funny read.

MoulDAVia
I'm thinking about trying to get it integrated into Twisted, once it's stable-ish. Right now it just umworks.

Life
Very quiet and uneventful. No repeats of a couple of days ago, thankfully.

(My previous entry will get swallowed, have a look at my page if you really want to see a tale of woe involving microsurgery to my MD).

jdub: Not really. I thought about releasing for a while, then sat down with one of the guys here and banged out an extended architecture for it - more modularity, more functionality. Instead of getting a release out, I went back to the drawing board (or whiteboard, in this case), and have spent most of today shuffling around code, and changing the design completely. It also allows me to write a complete test suite, rather than just running the tests by hand. All in all, I think it's probably better off. I've abandoned the release process for now, and will come back to it when it's ready. But it's not, so more unsexy code work lies ahead.

<Robot101> let me clarify
<Robot101> FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
*sigh*. Had a heavy fall on the weekend, and fell straight on to my MD. Broke the clip on my remote, scratched it badly, broke the LCD on the unit, and it fails to even read the TOC 2 out of 3 (or less) times. When it actually does, the motor makes a noise louder than the average conversation, and cannot withstand any shock whatsoever (even just lightly tipping your hand). Sony don't do microsurgery cheaply, either. This will severely throw out my plans to get a decent laptop, sigh.

MoulDAVia
Decided not to go the easy route of a quick release; instead, I'm architecting it to be nice and modular and cool, so you can have pluggable backends (think of having one area for user homes, where you require authentication, do the chroot, etc, and another shared area that functions just like mod_dav et al). Also writing a pretty comprehensive test suite and tester so that I can run it whenever I make major changes, instead of manually checking everything.

Other stuff
Can anyone recommend a decent laptop, that's pretty well priced?

Update: Really should use Preview more often ...

cdlu: interesting enough for oftc to implement it? or not.

mglazer: Um, I doubt they were Arabs. The Pakistanis were probably, well, Pakistani, and the Africans were probably ... wait for it ... African. I think your credibility just dropped to an all-time low; how can you claim to know the facts if you can't even make the differentiation between Arab and Muslim? (You'd probably go completely blank if I mentioned Sunni/Shi'ite, too ...).

MoulDAVia
Finally found that fscking bug!! I think it's related to __import__() after a fork() ... weird. Spent way too long tracking that one down. Ended up hacking around it. Ugh.

Maildrop, delegation
Having fun redelegating the NS for my domain; that should happen RSN(tm). Learning Maildrop, as that's what's used on the MX.

LUV
Having fun with Drupal. Someone on the main LUV list worked out that you could put JavaScript into a comment - stuff like "window.close();". The other website admin hurriedly disabled HTML in comments, but that's also stripped HTML from stories, meaning I can't get the joining submission up. Digging through it all now to see where he made the changes.