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Well, yesterday was my first day back in the office after my op. I was in so so so much pain by the end of the day :(

Reinstalled my machine from scratch with SuSE 7.3, and can't get my webcam to work now - ack

Also, I've had to setup the hotplug service to not load the USB Audio driver, otherwise it knackers sound output on the sound card.

Things like that say to me that we're quite some way from large scale desktop penetration, I'm quite happy to hack about with config files of course, but Joe User certainly ain't. Think there's another article there...

Well, this is it - my last day online for quite some time I expect, so I guess this will next get updated when I'm back...

Happy New Year!

Life
A week tomorrow I'm going into hospital for surgery, and I'll be offline for a while afterwards. I've stepped down from leading the Win2Lin FAQ team because of this, and today we had a meeting to talk about what'll happen in my absence.

Christmas was nice and relaxing - I spelt lots and hacked none :)

Going out for a chinese tonight, which'll be nice...

Hacking
Other people seem to be using my Revo Linux boot tree with success, which makes me a happy bunny.

Next step will be to change the initrd so that it doesn't try to start installing Woody, but just boots ;)

I'm hoping to work out if it's possible to somehow (realising it'll take some hardware abuse) to expand the Revo to allow me to attach CompactFlash or something similar, 8Mb ain't very much when it's got to act as RAM and a disk.

If I can, then it'll make it easier to get a working system going that will be good for something more than hack value (cos really "ooh, I can run ash and ping localhost!" is not what a PDA is for)

Wishlist for the future (if I ever get around to this...) is basically expansion, followed by a decent editor (more space means I can have vi) and maybe MicroWindows.

Might also see if I can spot a cheap secondhand 5MX for sale, so I can make use of the CompactFlash...

Revo status: got kernel 2.4.16 booted, and shell & editor running, nice :)

Happy Christmas! Back in the new year!

Ooh, just thought of a use for my Psion Revo, time to see if I can get Linux running on it, guess I knwo what I'm doing in my lunch break tomorrow :)

Party party party!!!

Cluster went into final-stage deployment testing today, when we put one of our SSL/DB-driven sites on it internally.

It worked! It only flippin' worked!

Suffice to say that makes me a happy bunny.

What makes me less of one is that my good lady, Mrs Riggwelter departed today towards her parents for Christmas. I'll be following when I finish work on Christmas Eve.

Also, installed a new version of gnome-pilot today, libgpilot.so was barfing when I tried to start the panel applet, works nicely now.

I can hear the beer calling me to go home and celebrate, so that's what I shall do!

Ooh, 9 days since I posted - bad, bad Riggy!

darkworm: You swine! Mention me, but not certify me will you? ;-)

LVS setup is now in deployment tetsing, I've spent far too long recently in our Comms Room, sure I've got frostbite as a result ;)

Christmas has sort of started here, people have started vanishing for the break, I'm here till Christmas Eve, but I'm not bitter (not much!)

Published another article on Gnome, which the community seem to have gone bananas over. Had requests to look at direct comparisons between Gnome & it's apps and Windows & it's apps, in terms of issuing a call to developers to improve the 'snappiness' of things. I'm not sure, the majority of Gnome hackers are focussed on 2.0, Abi guys are looking towards 1.0 and 1.2 and the Evo guys have got their own things to worry about. As I've mentioned before too, Galeon (IMHO) is there, period!

Oh, and apologies to the writers of SuSEconfig - it didn't break our rc scripts single-handed, bad use of insserv settings helped it more than a little ;-)

Not often I post two entries in a day...

Fixed the LVS entry, SuSEconfig had changed the order that the rc scripts ran at boot time...

Brain hurts

Been one of those days, seemed like someone had glued the phone to my ear this morning. Broke our test LVS system badly this afternoon in an attempt to change the IPs and websites it's running.

Worst thing is that I have no idea why what I did broke it. or at least, not yet.

Found out it's going to cost EUR125 to get my Psion Revo repaired cos it's out of warranty. Might just bite the bullet (now that I've lost all the data contained therein anyway) and get a Palm, at least I could sync that with Evolution.

Had a nice lunch with a friend today, highlight of the day so far, and going to see another good friend on my way home, which will be nice.

Now, back to the LVS debugging...

Oh, how I love meetings...

Not very much is how I love them!

In other news... ...Win2LinFAQ is starting to take shape (in the sense of how we're going to structure it)... ...Evolution bugzilla usage... ...Started evaluating KioskLinux for a little project in house...

Night off tonight, can't remember the last time I had one!

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