Older blog entries for Leimy (starting at number 25)

I am dissatisfied with my old linksys WAP11. The customer support sucks and the hardware craps out too much...

That picture is my "therapy" from having had to deal with it for a year... Time to get a better WAP.

Well this is my first advogato post done by using xmlrpc here

So far so good eh? Anyway I killed my phoenix.lhup.edu website with reckless abandon... I got really sick of looking at it... no moved content... just killed.

I need to start over anyway...

GOOOD LORD.

I never post anymore. I am currently working on an automated build system for KDE [yes another one]. Its in python and its threaded and I hope it will cut build time a bit. If I had a cluster it would be even better. As it is it takes about 5 hours to build/install.

my spare time development tasks are getting less and less of my attention due to job related needs.... Tonight I am working on Dynamic Process management for clusters.... exciting stuff I suppose.

Back in the game somewhat... Work is heating up even more... Got more real world responsibility which makes it more difficult to do Open Source stuff in the spare time.

I have taken it upon myself to learn some XML,XSLT, DocBook and other goodies. I am going to attempt to help document the DarwinPorts project... I have been following it and using for at least a month before the release.... Heck I even committed some code to it at one point [which was later replaced by an admittedly better version].

All the people involved did a really nice job IMO. Its even working on Linux and FreeBSD now I hear.

Been taking a mild Open Source hiatus for a few weeks. Work demands have been higher... I have been taking time to get back to my roots and dig up some old phone numbers and chat with some old friends.

As far as what is up with Kyra... Lee and I have been talking assembly based optimizations which gives me the opportunity to use some AltiVec code when I do the Kyra port. I may also end up supporting the Linux version of Lee's x86 code.

Kyra is generating a small community now... we have two people who have written Python bindings for it and we sometimes get comments and suggestions from the community about how to do things better.

It again has been some time since my last entry. I am eagerly awaiting my copy of Jaguar and trying to help out at OpenDarwin.org. The "darwinports" system is very interesting but I cannot run it yet as it is designed around 10.2 userland which I would have to build by hand a bit.

Other than that.... Kyra hit 1.6.4 yesterday though it really doesn't like my machine [I have to get Lee to let me test the candidates first next time!]. Work has gotten pretty zany as of late with lots of people moving around.. things are stabilizing a bit in other ways though. Overall its a good thing.

Had to drop the UFS work... I just don't have the time anymore. On a positive note Kyra is progressing forward and I have been able to follow KDE more closely.

Travelling again Monday through Wednesday... kind of a bummer.

Well I am back from Long Island. It wasn't a completely useless trip though the two other guys who are still there will be working hard for a whlie.

It's good to be back.

Anyway I didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted to this weekend so I hope to do some catching up this week. There are some interesting kernel extension discussions going over at opendarwin.org involving some neat ideas like etcfs for holding the contents of Netinfo in a filesystem hierarchy as well as other ways of mounting remote file systems like ftpfs or ssh/scp/ [basically kio_fish but at the OS level].

Neat stuff.

I managed to get XNU built and ran on my "modified kernel" for a week straight on my laptop... the keys haven't melted yet so I guess that's a plus :)

I didn't get much done this weekend with respect to UFS + SoftUpdates on XNU... It was one of those undermotivated slightly lethargic times when I thought I wouldn't be able to produce anything worthwhile so I didn't bother... *sigh* coder's block?

I will be off this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and have to fly to Long Island NY on Sunday and won't be back in town until the following Friday so after this week I will have little time to mess with Open Source stuff for a while. I have no idea what degree of connectivity I will have to the internet while I am gone... i bet its 56k modem :)

Well that's life I guess... I hate to travel but I must...

Well another week is about to begin and I have been busying myself trying to build XNU [Darwin/BSD kernel]. It need some documentation of how to do this from the CVS sources at Opendarwin.org. This is all part of my efforts to get the UFS updates from FreeBSD into Darwin [softupdates/etc].

I hope to have it figured out by the end of the week.

Dave