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Open Source MichaelCrawford posted an article on Advogato about the GFDL and how some of the linux distribution will be treating the license. I am not aware of what the problems are with the license as well as the implications. But I do have all my articles on GFDL. Do I need to change? Can someone volunteer some advise.

Life

A sunday came to pass. Nothing much happened. Went and took care of some stuff at the bank.

Work

Had to coordinate some requirement that had come up at work. Been on the phone all morning with the team. Managed to sneak out to the bank in the middle of that.

Life Last week is a lucky week. First I get a Rs. 150 coupon from my bank for using their online banking. Then I get a $20 gift certificate on Amazon from Sun. Sure feels good to be lucky :-).

Its saturday evening and there is nobody at home. Sure feels boring. Too lazy to go out anywhere.

Ordered a pizza for dinner. Its been a long time since I had one. Staying off junk food to stay healthy :-) just felt like having one..

Wed, Jul 2, 2003

Open Source

I have been having trouble with a jabber server that we have on our intranet at work. The server is on a linux box running on a P3 class 1Ghz with 256MB RAM. The server usually has a load of about 15 people max. Now the problem - whenever multiple users join a conference room, the linux box CPU goes to 100% and jabber stops responding. Then I have to kill the jabber process to get it back running. All the clients are Windows based clients called exhodus. Anybody has a clue? Please mail me at vivek at magic hypen cauldron dot com.

Work

We have had problems with handling the load that the server will receive during peak times. We have been working round the clock to see what we can do to improve the situation. Currently running with a throttle on the number of users of the site. Hopefully situation will improve soon.

Tue, Jul 1, 2003

Open Source

I am seeing a lot of downloads on the new version of CVSPermissions. Good to know that it is appreciated. Since I moved to Sarovar, I am able to see statistics on the site which is a good thing. I should also host my Advogato Poster on Sarovar. I think there will be people interested in a blogging software for advogato. Yes?

Work

We went live over the weekend. Been having sleepless nights since then :-(. Contractual obligations prevent me from mentioning about details here but its not hard to figure out :-). We have had a few hiccups so far. Nothing that cannot be solved but has resulted in sleepless nights never the less.

Open Source

Finished CVSPermissions v 0.3. Now I have support for restriction of tagging in CVS. That is the good part. The bad part is that the access to sarovar, where I host the tool seems to be gone!. I am not sure if it is my ISP. I will try to upload the next release from another ISP. If that fails, I have to wait for another day to upload the release. Rats!

Life

Spent most of the morning just surfing the net, reading up writeup from the SD magazine on errant architecture by Martin Fowler. Fell asleep while planning to put in some new changes to CVSPermissions. Finally work up, went to meet inlaws in the evening. Came back and then worked on CVSPermissions.

Open Source

bram you should try Sarovar as a home for bit torrent.

Sat, Jun 28, 2003

Open Source

Started working on the website for CVSPermissions. I am hoping it will serve me two purposes. One I learn DocBook website DTD and how to create websites and secondly all my users will have a proper website.

Work

Off to work on a saturday. There is an insiduous bug in the system that will affect the launch. We have even asked help from the application server vendor and they will be providing it soon. For a strange reason a transaction gets rolled back when there are no errors happening anywhere. The application server is ATG Dynamo. Not sure what the issue is, The whole team is debugging and I am here to provide a moral support more than anything else. Their ATG skills are far ahead of mine.

Fri, Jun 27, 2003

Open Source

Today I tried to give the Advogato Poster the ability to talk via firewalls. Unfortunately it just didnt work. For some reason - not sure whether it is our corporate firewall or Java or XMLRPC, I always got the following error.

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 407 for URL: http://www.advogato.org/XMLRPC
        at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient$Worker.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:444)
        at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:163)
        at com.magic_cauldron.blogs.AdvogatoPoster.getLastDiaryEntry(AdvogatoPoster.java:292)
        at com.magic_cauldron.blogs.AdvogatoPoster.main(AdvogatoPoster.java:339)

Yes I have set the proxyHost and proxyPort properties, I have setup the proxyUser and password properties I have tried the Base64 encoding... nothing seems to work! I am tired of dealing with poorly written software today.

Thu, Jun 26, 2003

Open Source

Gotta work on CVSPermissions... gotta work on CVSPermissions... I keep saying this to myself but never get around to doing it. I guess there is no real impetous for doing it. I need to sit down and apply myself.

Work Got home this morning at 4:00 Am after the conference call. One looooong day it has been. Have to get to work in the afternoon since we are live and there could be issues there. Things seem to be OK so far.

Life Will have to catch up on sleep. Getting to be a luxury nowadays. :-). My wife bought me a new pair of running shoes :-) can't wait to get my hands on them. she is sending it to me through a friend of hers.

Wed, Jun 25, 2003

Work

Oh boy! I have a conference call today from 11:30 PM IST to 2:00 AM IST. Fun fun fun.. It so worked out that the presentation that we had to do for our proposal was at that time. I am not sure when I will get home.

I guess after this then we just have to wait for the results from the customer.

Life

Been feeling bored about things in general. No new challenges lately. Thinking of writing something. Dont know what :-) I think my wife understands what I am talking about. I am not sure if I have to start a separate Blog. I am not the blogging type I think. I have not been able to put coherent words in Advogato in general so I dont see myself as a great blogger. The concepts is very intriguing though and very interesting. I might actually start one to satisfy the curiousity but I suspect sustaining the effort will be beyond me.

Open Source

On the whole a more productive weekend for my Open source code. Managed to get out a new version of the poster, started to learn about DocBook Website building capabilities so I can put together a new homepage for CVSPermissions on Sarovar. Cannot complain/ask for more.

Work

So we are officially live from Monday. Things are looking good so far and working as we envisaged.

21 Jun 2003 (updated 21 Jun 2003 at 14:04 UTC) »
Open Source

AdvogatoPoster: Took the timezone issue up after a long time. Why? Simply because I think Java TimeZone handling is just broken. I just could not figure out how to do conversion from one timezone to another. This is important to me since I live in a timezone very far away from advogato :-). Finally I had given up a long time ago. I had received a pointer to an article. That just didn't work. Today was "the" day that I decided to tackle the problem and google was my friend. I found this message in the google groups where someone else apparently had the same frustration and figured out the solution. So I just plugged in the code and viola! it worked. I am hoping this entry will appear correctly in Advogato.

Life

My friend krishna leaves town today back to his home in Singapore. Spent the whole day with his family.

Work

We are going live monday! Its is a busy time and a great time. I hope I can talk about it after it finally goes live :-)

The proposal that I worked upon is now been selected woohoo.. that means we make a presentation to the customer. That is scheduled wednesday. Good! the loss of two weekends is compensated by this victory of reaching the next step. This is a tough deal... hope we win it.

Work

OK, Today is the D-day to submit the big proposal. Have been working with all on various alternatives and what is right and wrong. Everybody has different ideas and I am spending more time co-ordinating each one with another than implementing ideas themselves.

Open Source

I think I need to spend some time and finish my hosting of cvspermissions on sarovar. I have been putting it off for too long. I have to create a nice home page for it.

Life

Met an old friend after a long time. Should plan on meeting him again this week before he goes back to singapore. Too bad I could never spend time with him. I should probably take a day off and do it. Wednesday is the day I think...

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