Nice surprise
Absorbed like I was with the task of finishing the university project (see previous post), I did not even realized a little patch I have done to fix an untranslated string in dblatex was finally accepted some months ago!
Since the parameter name is different (and admittedly a better name) from my proposal, to keep the project generating a proper document I will have to make some change, a thing I wasn't expecting to do after having presented it :-).
Finally!
Somewhat tired and, later, busy with work, I didn't find time to write about it, but for completing the previous post, I'm doing it now. So, let's go back to January 20th...
Past couple of weeks have been somewhat stressing, as expected: after printing the books, had to bind them, deposit the books in the alumni section and pay the corresponding tuition fee. Later had to remind them that this was a project under a confidentiality arrange and had to inform the review committee about that.
Finishing the slides was another stressing factor. Today I was still changing minor things. Of course I didn't even try to do some presentation test... no time for that. Lose some time setting up nodejs for playing the slides with work's laptop, because mine doesn't have VGA output and my suspects (later confirmed) were University projector was not going to have anything more modern.
Today I choose the wrong room, but later discovered that the room I was assigned was taken by some other group (!) so I've had little choice. Despite arriving earlier I spent most of the time fighting with the projector, which refused to detect my work laptop. After the committee arrival they talked to the other group and we swapped rooms. The projector worked fine in this one, and the presentation could be done. There was more questions than I was expecting, but after finishing and some minutes of waiting the desired result was announced.
Next week I requested the official title in the alumni section, though I could do this by email, but not without paying yet another fee, of course. In this country titles are taking 6 months to be delivered, as they come from the Ministry of Education¹, so no more news are expected until summer.
So, finally, I'm now a Computer Science Engineer ;-)
¹ Why printing a colour A3 sized title takes six months is still a mystery to me. Anyway by the time I got my BSc title (+20 years ago) they were taking years, so this is definitely an improvement.
This is how 2 years of work look...
...after printing it for submission in triplicate:
At least this was somewhat cheap (34.80 euros) because it's printed black and white. Printing in colour was prohibitive.
Next step: bind them in a dark blue hard-cover with golden letters :-)
10 years of clawsker!
Today on #claws irc channel some conversation derailed into talking about hidden preferences (of Claws Mail) and clawsker's name, the Perl applet which can help you to edit them.
First name was not clawsker, it was a more like Sylpheed Claws Hidden Preferences Editor, which I of course abbreviated to the unspeakable schpe — unless you know German, I guess… ;-)
Looking for the initial script, it turned out it's still on my hard disc:
I'd love to…
undo all bugs I'd been sneakily making along the years…
But some people call them features ;-)
Another target reached
Just sent v0.95 of my project for review. Was nothing previously set, I simply continued writing, expanding and fixing things, with the hope of completing something… it's not fully completed, but sending it for review reduces some pressure at least.
And after tagging it then noticed:
$ git rev-list --all --count 600
Maximum number of clients reached Error: Can't open display: :0
Today it happened again: you try to open some program and nothing happens. Go to an open terminal, try again and it answers with the above message. Other days I used to reboot the session, but that's something I don't really think should be necessary.
First thought about X gone mad, but this one seems pretty well behaved:
$ lsof -p `pidof Xorg` | wc -l 5
$ for a in `pidof chromium`; do echo "$a "`lsof -p $a | wc -l`; done 27914 5 26462 5 25350 5 24693 5 23378 5 22723 5 22165 5 21476 222 21474 1176 21443 5 21441 204 21435 546 11644 5 11626 5 11587 5 11461 5 11361 5 9833 5 9726 5
$ kill -9 21435 21441 21474 21476
$ for a in `pidof chromium`; do echo "$a "`lsof -p $a | wc -l`; done 11919 5 11848 222 11841 432 11815 5 11813 204 11807 398
Oneliner for today
Unfortunately I'm still busy trying to finish the documentation of my M.Sc. project. This one was built after several attempts to convert the tables for the use case descriptions spread through several AsciiDoc files into a list of 3rd level titles joining both the use case Id and title (and some dummy content to keep the processor happy):
grep --after-context=1 '^|Identificador' "$a" *_cu_*.txt
| cut -f3 -d\|
| sed 's,^--$,,;s,^\+,,'
| sed ':a;N;$!ba;s,\n\n,\n,g'
| sed ':a;N;$!ba;s,\+\n,~,g'
| awk -F~ '{print $1 " ``"$2"\47\47"}'
| perl -n -e '
use open qw(:std :utf8);
chomp; $n = length;
print "$_\n" . "^" x $n . "\n\nLorem ipsum...\n\n";
'
New router, worse router
Our internet overlord TeleCable has decided to upgrade the hardware they had installed at home (the old Motorola SURFboard SB5101E) to something new, supporting DOCSIS 3.0, so they can happily say all their customers enjoy 100 MBps download rates. Not checked this fact yet, though.
The hardware of choice (I wonder who choose it) is a Cisco EPC3925, which comes also with Wi-Fi, so I decided to shut down my Linksys WRT54GL, for saving some electricity and enjoy the faster Wi-Fi (N in the Cisco vs G in the Linksys).
Unfortunately the EPC3925 doesn't like machines with static IP addresses on the network and was unable to route between two of them using the wired ports. Strangely both machines were reachable when accessed from a third machine connected to the wireless network with static address too (!).
After struggling for a whole afternoon with it (even reformatted the SD card of one of the machines thinking it could be the problem) I gave up using static addresses and just solved it the other way around:
Are we there yet?
Not really, but next release is very near ;-)
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