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  • Monday. Some kernel care taking, some HR stuff.
  • Project leads refusing to find out about the SCM they are using. Sigh.
  1. Start OpenOffice on a virtual desktop under icewm.
  2. Move the OpenOffice window to a different desktop.
  3. Focus the window or select a menu via hotkey.
  4. Be bumped to the desktop you originally started OOo on.
  5. Relieve anger through swearing.
  • Clearly, some of Linux HA's largest issues are not hidden anywhere in the communication layers, but rather effort out to be spend on building a very basic lint-like tool for configurations. Which, of course, shouldn't possibly use some of the features of XML validators out there, but be reinvented from scratch. Meta-data should be embedded into that tool instead of being queryable from the other parts of the code like done for everything else. Etcetera.

  • This week I spent most days in Nuremberg to catch up with colleagues and friends, have lunch, have dinner, and attend a few meetings. It's always good to meet in person from time to time.
  • After having been reminded, at length, that
    1. I always had a misunderstanding of how one piece of code worked (and so couldn't possibly be observing what I've been seeing, and of course never having been told that it was by design), not having written it myself and not understanding it as well as the author, and
    2. how I'm very certainly confused about how another bit is designed (so the issue I was seeing for sure must be due to my testing and not with the code), not having written nor designed it myself etcetera,
    the foot is inserted into the mouth twice within the day. I'd be a better man than I am if I wasn't slightly smug now.
  • What else? More heartbeat testing.
  • I needed to optimize my Xen network setup, but it confused me quite a bit. The network-route and vif-route stuff just didn't seem to work for me. With this howto, I found a very easily followable explanation of achieving the network setup I wanted. Thanks, Arjen!
  • Quite a bit of mail.

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