Older blog entries for gleblanc (starting at number 20)
ComputersI got one of my SPARCstation 2s booting this evening.
Unfortunately, I found out that my 2 1000MB disks were
actually 2 100MB disks. Darn, that's small. How can I run
any software in 200MB? Well, maybe those can be used to run
my new DNS server or something. I've got a few 4GB disks
around, but they seem to be rather failure-prone. I think
I'll need to get some more disks for these machines.
Life
My parents are back in town, which is cool. Maybe
they'll beat some sense into my little brother. Probably
not. I had to run and get them from the airport about noon
time today, and while I was gone, the university president
sent out a mail telling everybody to go home. Of course, I
arrived back at the office around 1:45.
It's really frustrating, now that I've finally got enough
courage to even think about asking, that the campus is
completely deserted. I don't know what to do about my last
forray, perhaps just let it slide away. Even if I do, I
need to make it clear that ignoring people is a lot less
desireable than telling them no, dontcha think?
Computers
Woo! I've been working on updating plain-GNOME today, and
making some decent progress. Now, if I could just get
people to actually send release announcements of new
versions, this would be much easier. I'll probably upload a
new RH7.0 i386 set tonight, and possibly even i586 and i686,
since all of the hard work is in getting the first set.
Biking
I did some riding out at the velodrome again yesterday.
It's actually pretty embarrassing, since I'm horribly slow.
I'm going to see about doing 60+ miles this weekend, just
to give my legs a really hard workout. If anybody who reads
this is a decent bike coach
EMAIL ME! I need the
help.
Life
Well, my fortune program has been returning completely
boring stuff lately, so I haven't had anything to send. And
considering the response that my last email got (absolutely
none), perhaps that's just as well. Sometimes I wonder why
I even try...
Computers
Hmm, I got absolutely nothing productive done on the
computer today. Wonderful.
I still need to spec out the laptops that we're getting for
work, and it's horrible. I wish we had a network tech, but
my idiot boss is dragging his feet on that. He has a good
excuse, but for cryin out loud, there's way too much to do
for waiting to be a good idea. At least now that he's a
manager, he's out of the office a lot...
Biking
It was 105 degrees outside when I headed home today (that's
about 40 celcius/centigrade), which is WAY too hot to be
biking. It's down to just under 30 now, but I'm going to
bed instead of for a bike ride.
Oh yeah, yesterday's ride home averaged 14.9 mph, which
isn't too shabby, considering the hills. Maybe next week
I'll be able to hit 15...
Hmm, I haven't updated this since Wednesday, huh? Well,
that's quite a while...
Computers
I spent a lot of time playing around with rpmlint on the
plain-GNOME packages... Rather tedious, but I think I'm
getting some of the errors cleaned up. I also managed to
build a gabber 0.8.3 rpm, which actually built when I gave
that vmware machine 128MB of ram (it was going on 4 hours
when I stopped it before, probably because the system only
had 48MB of ram to work with).
I spent $Diety only knows how long trying to make Red Hat's
DocBook XML packages work with libxslt. They don't, but I'm
still fighting them. Using the DTD from the web actually
seems to produce better results, although it takes a bit to
download. Bleh.
Biking
Well, I didn't bike at all on Thursday, but Friday looked
really nice when I got home that I headed out. I toured
around for a couple of hours, then watched the races at the
Velodrome. Pretty sweet... I manged 17 miles at better
than 15 miles and hour, although not by much, and I had some
breaks in the middle. Saturday I went out and rode just
under 10 miles, again just beating out 15 mpg as an average.
I took Sunday off, but rode in to work this morning, and
averaged better than 16mph. Too bad that will look bad
after the uphill ride home...
Life
Well, unfortunately, absolutely nothing to report (save
suspicions) on this front. I sent off an email to Ashlin to
see about doing dinner this week, but I don't know if it's
even been read. I had to go over to the business office to
see that AP checks printed properly, and she was sitting
there filing. I'm sure she saw me, but she avoided eye
contact. Is that a bad sign?
Biking
I got out to the Velodrome again today. Bill, the guy who
actually "normally" runs the lessons was there. I think
there were only 10 people biking today, which was a lot
better than last week, when there were more like 30. I used
my new petals, and while I looked like an idiot getting into
them a couple of times, I didn't fall getting out even once.
I think I need to adjust the cleats a little bit, but they
are nice petals. I'm not sure I like how much play there is
in them, but I'm pretty sure a different set of cleats would
give me less play. Oh, for those of you who don't bike,
play is how much "twist" there is when you're locked into
the petals. I tend to like a rather small amount, once I've
got my feet at the right angle.
I had a blast, and nobody fell. I REALLY need to start
biking to work every other day, or so, hopefully building up
to every day very quickly. My legs are too weak, and I'm
actually pretty beat by the end of practice, even though we
didn't ride as much this week.
Computers
Well, I played with a bunch of RPM stuff today. I found a
good way to determine which packages need work, called
rpmlint. pzb has put together an rpmlint config file for
GNOME, and I'm using that. Looks like I've got a -lot- of
work to do. I think I'm going to toss these spec files into
CVS tonight, and post the output of rpmlint being run on
them to the mailing list, and ask for people to start
working on them.
I worked for a while on the packaging guidelines again, but
I rm'd my updated version somehow. Crapola. I guess I'll
be re-writing those sections. Rather frustrating, but oh
well.
Life
I'm feeling almost normal again today, which is a great
change from this weekend. I forgot to set my alarm, so I
haven't had anything to eat since dinner last night, except
for a bag of corn chips.
Ashlin stopped by to say hi today, and I almost got two
complete sentences out! But, uhm, no, I don't get tongue
tied at all. I'm not even sure if I smiled, but I really
was glad to see her. She didn't stay long enough to talk
about anything, but that's probably because I wasn't saying
anything, and in the middle of working on a software
install.
Bikes
Rex (that's a friend of mine, not a dog) seems to think that
carbuerator cleaner won't harm this derailer that I'm
rebuilding, so I'm going to try to find a time to go over
there and soak it for a half hour or so, and see how clean
it gets. I'm not sure what I'll do with it after it's
rebuilt and cleaned. Anybody want to buy a used derailer?
Velodrome tonight, although I haven't riden since last time
I was there, as I been sick, and yesterday didn't look like
a good time to go biking (rain, wet, yuck). I think I'll
try my petals on the apron and riding alone for a bit, and
if I can manage it, I'll use them all evening.
Computing
Somehow I volunteered to start working on a set of automated
builds for GNOME 2.0 today. While I want to do this, I
hadn't really planned on starting it until June. Oh well,
at least somebody is helping out with the GPP RPM packaging
guidelines. I almost hacked on those today, but I had too
much work to catch up on. It feels like I've done a lot of
work on CVS accounts since I sent out that message, but the
database still has a lot of blanks.
Well, Eazel is officially dissolved. Kind of sucks, but
some of the hackers are going to stick with GNOME, which is
a great thing. Eazel introduced quite a few hackers to
GNOME, but the only one that I know really well is Darin.
I'm really glad that he's going to keep being the maintainer
of Nautilus, because he seems to do a great job at it.
Well, that's my obligatory bit on this, perhaps I'll write
more as things unfold. The Europeans don't even "know", for
sure, yet.
life
Well, the only interesting thing to note is that the vase I
gave flowers in showed up on my desk this morning. This is
good, because I needed to get it back. It's worrying
because there was no note with it. I sent off an email
asking for a little more information early this morning, but
I very rarely get anything back within 2 days, so I have a
while to wait before I know I'm being ignored. Hmm, I said
some of that this morning, oops.
Life
Ugh, I seem to have gotten ill sometime Thursday, and so I
got to spend almost the entire weekend sick. :-( I think
I'm mostly recovered now, hopefully this won't come back.
Somehow the vase that gave ella (that's Spanish, assuming
that I haven't completely forgotten the language) flowers in
has mysteriously appeared on my desk sometime between when I
left Friday afternoon, and when I got back to work, at
6:20AM Tuesday morning. I don't usually go in to work quite
this early, but I had to take my mom to the airport today.
Biking
I was sick all weekend, which left biking out of the
picture, and it's rained yesterday and today. While this
doesn't bother me for riding, it does make the velodrome
unsafe. We'll see if things dry out by tomorrow.
Computers
We had some good discussions yesterday in #packaging,
although the jury is still out on who should own files that
are installed by the GPP rpms. Peter Bowen was doing some
hacking on the rpm guidelines, but he didn't commit his
changes, so I decided not to hack on them yesterday.
Biking
I went out to the Velodrome again, and actually got on the
track. It's impressively cheap to rent a bike and get a
lesson ($5 for each), and it's REALLY fun. If you go slower
than 15 mph or so, you'll fall off the track, but it's not
hard to keep up going much faster than that. I'll
definately be back there next week, but I'm really out of
shape, so I need to bike to work a bit more often.
Life
Yeah, well, we're giving lots of space. I email the
"fortune" out every couple of days when it's fun, but I
can't tell if it's even getting read, let alone appreciated.
I've got much to say, but I don't know when it's kosher to
stop giving so much space. Maybe when the summer semester
starts up (we're on the break between spring and summer term
now).
Computing
The GPP fares pretty well, although I'm really busy. I was
going to try to finish writing things last night, but there
was a new The West Wing, so I had to watch that. Tonight
I'm stuck going to an Investment Club meeting. I need to
start pushing to get gnome anoncvs syncing more often, since
the current status makes things really sloppy for people who
are trying to keep up on quickly changing modules. It looks
like the GNOME 2.0 release co-ordinators will be
supportative of binary release of the 2.0 betas, so GNOME
2.0 should be -much- better than 1.4 was, at least WRT testing.
Err, yeah, I didn't get anything up on the 30th, 1st, or
2nd. GPP seems to be sucking all of my available time.
Bikes
I went out the the Alpenrose Velodrome
yesterday, with the idea that I'd get a lesson and ride
some. To quote their webpage, "The Alpenrose track is not
your typical 25 to 33 degree banked track", it's more like
44 degrees. WOAH, talk about steep. Since I got there too
late for a lesson this week, I just watched them practice a
bit. I'm going to get their early next week, and make sure
get a lesson, and see what this track riding is like.
Maybe I'll even do a race in a week or two.
GPP
Wow, lots of stuff. I've finished another section of the
RPM packaging guidelines now, and I've even got them in CVS,
in the gnome-docu/gpp/rpm-guidelines/ directory. I got a
couple of corrections from people on the mailing list, and
I've been getting a lot of questions from people in the
#packaging channel on irc.gnome.org. Looks like I won't
need to do nearly as much of this work as I thought. :-)
I still haven't written a mission statement, mostly because
I don't have any idea what the mission statement should be.
Maybe I'll keep slacking off on that mission statement for
a while...
So, that's it for the past couple of days, I'll try to post
what I got done today when I get done with it all later tonight.
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