Older blog entries for dwmw2 (starting at number 85)

moray: Not all, but many. Personally, I find I'm physically incapable of typing my initials without the '2' any more.

Decided I should try to overcome my irrational hatred of C++.

So I started playing with Opie; developing a little program for playing with GSM phones.

I chose to use gsmlib for the actual communication with the phone. Upon first glance, it seemed to be quite nice.

Unfortunately it seems its effective footprint on the iPAQ is about 2MiB - layers upon layers of derived classes with gratuitous autorefcounting for objects which are only ever going to be allocated and discarded once, all based on libstdc++.

Strictly speaking, the project seems to be well on course to achieve the stated goal - I shall be left with a deep-seated but perfectly rational hatred of C++. :)

Ankh: Yes, I know. That was the point - perhaps I should have said "By the time you leave, you ought to know the difference."

In fact, I think I shall go back and change it :)

In kindergarten, practise and practice are the same.

By the time you leave, however, you ought to know the difference.

Ilan: We do have GOTOs in modern programming languages. C99, for one. And it's a useful tool which allows cleaner, more efficient and more readable code to be produced. If used with caution, of course - but that goes for most things.

Got annoyed with the Red Hat kernel including Rik's rmap patch and not working on ARM, so I ported the rmap VM to ARM.

Then I got annoyed with it dying horribly on 'dbench 10' on my 32MiB swapless nfsroot box, when the Red Hat 2.4.13 kernel worked flawlessly. It OOM-kills just about everything except the dbench threads. That one I suspect I'm going to have to leave to Rik.

VM is hard. Let's go shopping.

Free wavelan in airports rocks.

The taxis here are strange.

I have no aversion to walking - especially when I'm somewhere I haven't seen much of before. If I get a taxi, it's generally because I have two-thirds of bugger all clue where I'm going.

So I call or otherwise obtain a taxi, get in it and tell the driver where I want to be, and most times since I've got here, he's turned round and said something like "Right, mate - where's that then?"

I don't fscking know! WTF is all that about?

Arrived in Brisbane for linux.conf.au. I think it's Tuesday - I'm not quite sure. It was definitely Sunday when I got up.

I note that Australian telcos are no exception to the rule. All I wanted was a dialup account for the week I'm here and they refused to take my credit card because it wasn't registered to an Australian address. The person I spoke to seemed to be suggesting that I should rent a house for the week I was here, instead of staying in a hotel - and then he'd be able to give me an account.

Went into town to buy a prepaid version of the same service instead.

Fucking Useless Telco.

Now if only SourceForge would ban people from putting the stupid crap in the Subject line on all their mailing lists... :)