Dark. About zero degrees. No snow.
Continue readingWell Situated, Friendly Neighborhood
Ben has some good news for anyone interested in reducing the memory usage of Linux programs. Smaps is great. But does it tell the whole truth? For PCs with (basically) limitless swap space, it’s possible that it doesn’t even come …
Continue readingSession-wide valgrind
Now that we know that even Evolution runs under Valgrind, we need a bigger challenge. So, how about the entire GNOME session? I've written a couple of tiny scripts that lower the threshold to doing this. They take care of …
Continue readingEvolution is da logic bomb
You know the story. Random crashes preventing you from reading your mail all morning. This time, though, there’s a twist (and a moral). The twist is that instead of complaining on IRC – ok, I mean in addition to complaining …
Continue readingFlow in CVS
I just imported Flow to GNOME CVS (module “flow”). It has a fairly detailed HACKING file for those interested. The low-level I/O is done (for Unix), modulo a little polish. Mid-level stream fundamentals are mostly done, but I need to …
Continue readingHarvest
The lime tree in our garden keeps bearing large amounts of fruit.
Continue readingLet's blow up Pluto
I think we should just blow up Pluto. This would put the poor li'l thing out of its misery and end the debate over whether it’s a planet or not. We’d learn a lot from the engineering challenges, and it’d …
Continue readingFIXME: Article summary here
How many FIXMEs do the various projects in my jhbuild directory have? Curiosity got the better of me today: hpj [~/work/jhbuild/gnome-2.16] for PKG in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | cut -b 3- | sort); do N_FIXME=$(find …
Continue readingRainy Day
Lots of wind and rain yesterday. Our street turned into a muddy river. Heavy machinery was brought in today to fix it up 'till next time.
Continue readingIntermittent
Right. I've written a little script for Cacti, and I'm going to use it to show Telmex just what I mean by "intermittent DSL downtime". The orange bars indicate service outage. Every time this happens, my IP changes as an …
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