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Been a long time since I've posted. Started working from home and am going to relocate to the Seattle area in a few months.

Still trying to keep my hands dirty in OpenDarwin related stuff. Right now my focus is libFoundation and occasionally 7WX! [http://www.7wx.org]

Also chillin out on orkut these days... It's oh so trendy... please get a friend to sign you up so I can be connected to more of the hundreds of thousands of folks out there.

Also learning Haskell and continuing to love emacs...

Nifty applescript "alarm clock" I use with iCal... Inspired, adapted and mostly stolen from my buddy Jason Deraleau on #opendarwin [irc.freenode.net]



-- launch iTunes and start music slowly increasing volume
set volume 5
try
	tell application "iTunes"
		activate
		play playlist "easy"
		set i to 10
		repeat 100 times 
			set the sound volume to i 
			set i to i + 1 
			delay 0.25
		end repeat 
	end tell 
on error 
	beep 
end try

Thanks again Jason

Haven't updated since July... Seems its about time.

Working from home these days. FreeBSD 5.x CURRENT is a bit of a mess these days. Matt Dillon forked 4.8 and made dragonflyBSD and I must say I find it somewhat refreshing. Too bad I can't run it yet. My hardware is far too new. When my new G5 comes [just shipped tonight] I hope I will be able to get FBSD on the old G4 :) I realize it doesn't do "release" yet but I am hoping to find some time to work on it.

Other than that these days.. just hackin around with Cocoa and Applescript in my spare time

Took some time out to get familiar with Haskell and have been playing around with Lisp too recently. There are a lot of different perspectives one can pick up from learning a new programming language. I suggest you try it... many idioms out there that may lend themselves to solutions you have in mind.

Sometimes open source people aren't open minded enough... C++ is treated like a red-headed stepchild in spite of the fact that very good things have been done with the subset of it that is commonly implemented :).

Nothing like rambling to one's self on one of the older public blog sites :)

4 Jul 2003 (updated 4 Jul 2003 at 03:04 UTC) »

Haven't done this in a LOOONG time. I stopped watching most of KDE development as I haven't had the time. I try to stay connected with my OpenDarwin peeps though and hope to get some time to do something useful.

in the meantime I am keeping busy with work and interesting projects I can't talk too much about.



NDA's kick ass :)

I sent Soeren Schmidt some hardware for an SiI 3112 controller chip and he has supported this nice SATA device in FreeBSD... its coming to you for FreeBSD 5.2

Check here!!

Its good to know that, though I haven't had enough time to code stuff myself lately for my favorite open sourced projects, that I can still make a bit of a difference somehow.

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.

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