Older blog entries for Leimy (starting at number 27)

Doing what I can to test FBSD CURRENT. Getting back to PC assembly after a really long time too. Thinking about optimizing some of FBSD's libc for Athlon/Intel P3 and higher CPUs. SIMD operations for things like bcopy could be a useful enhancement. How many programs do you think call that anyway?

FreeBSD is a good platform to try this on since it is encouraged to recompile the whole system to get updates. If there is a good way to switch which implementation of certain libc functions get called it could be a nice enhancement.

Anyway that's what I have been doing in my decreasing spare time.

Well its been quite a while since my last entry... I am currently working with the C99ification project for FreeBSD... I got into it because of my interest in porting applications to that platform.

I am going to spend some time learning how things are done in libc and etc.

As a result of less time to develop stuff I am now selling my Sharp Zaurus SL-5500.

I already have a PDA and don't really need two to stay organized ... in fact that confuses things more than one would might think double the organizers would do!

I want to help out my fellow Open Source developers as much as possible so if you tell me you saw the item from this diary entry I will knock some of the price off for ya!
Take it easy.

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.