Monday/Tuesday

Recovering from Sunday (didn't feel too good all day (headache)) Oh look,.. a "Red Hat Unveils Linux Clustering Solution" announcement. Ok, so I knew exactly when this was going to appear. Now I have to go find a rock to go hide under. Some the business/marketting wording makes me cringe though it's all justifiable. (just). Did a load of support email for the business people, the marketting people and the road show people. Various meetings.

Skipped lunch,. the normal lunch crowd wanted to go to a sushi bar,....

I can tell it's a Monday. finally got home to check my mailbox for useful things like the ****ing home banking account details that I was ****ing promised would be there on friday. Guess what! it's not there,.. what a damned surprise. <FUME>

Tuesday

Aftermarth of yesterdays HA announcement seems to be slowly dribbling in. Nothing from the security peon groups. Joy. Similarly I've heard bugger all from the press. I guess I'm happy with that.

Since HA 1.0 went out the door I've been tearing into the product again with an editor. I'm making some core design changes that I really wish had been available to put in the product launch which we couldn't because we 'froze' the code for QA testing months ago. So to make up for that lost time I'm ripping into the current product with a certain fever. Too much lost time.

Skipped lunch again. Trust me. This is no big deal,.. not for another month 8)

Made a massive CVS commit. CVS predictibly got confused when I went to check it all back out in a new tree but it seems to have survived. I trust CVS about as far as I trust a seive to hold water (note, you can get a seive to hold water (non frozen) umm $1 prize for the first person who emails me how 8) if not I'll demonstrate at OLS)

Was approached by ajh to evict me from RHAT to go to OLS. The major reason why I wasn't going initially was that Red Hat wished to send me to LinuxExpo 2000 which meant about a weeks worth of lost engineering work. OLS will cost ~3 engineering days (though I tend to work Sat) so that argument has been addressed and my sleep quota has ben reduced accordingly. I still have to book a flight and worry about things like, 'do I have to call up the INS?' 'do I have a ticket for the show itself?' and 'which cardboard box am I sleeping in'. I think the last day I can prebook a flight is Friday, so some fast organization needs doing. A cursory browse of flight costs is somewhere around the $540 mark (damned tax).

Some internal decisions look likely to fracture my rose tinted glasses view of the world. DOH.

Made XFree86's MesaGL work properly under the Alpha by very simply replacing the Xfree86 4.0.1 version of mesa with the Mesa 3.2 tarball package from www.mesa3d.org
XFree86's 4.0.1 version would seem to be hosed