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classic tidbit of the day .... "In portuguese Fedora means Stink"

So newren blogged about baz not supporting -p last thursday.... we were kinda busy leading up to a release - but thanks to Aaron Bentley, we've now got -p support built into baz.

baz diff -p to your hearts content newren :)

As background, before we added this, diff output went into the archive as-is, so changing its format changed the archive format - potentially breaking third party tools, or even Baz itself. Now we internally differentiate and can do whacky parameters if we want to.

Dear evolution, you are on crack.

Time to 'filter new messages on my imap store': ~ 5 minutes.

Number of new messages? 6.

Ability to access already-cached-for-offline messages during this period? None.

Frustration because I can ssh home and cat /all/ the new messages, and determine they are spam, and their folders, in less time: Priceless.

Oh, and DNS is fine - a little slow (4 seconds to determine example.org), but working.

Cute hack of the day: checkout arch/bazaar projects via ls and cp.

You need fuse installed, bazaar, and pybaz.

for fuse, if you are using debian or ubuntu, install fuse-source, and this patch for recent kernels fuse.diff. You need to build the module for your current kernel. I did this by installing the kernel source, copying the config for it to .config, then running: "make-kpkg --revision 2.6.11-0.2 --append-to-version "-1-686" --rootcmd fakeroot modules_image". Hopefully fuse will be in stock kernels soon :).

For bazaar visit bazaar.canonical.com - binaries for debian/ubuntu & redhat.

For pybaz, see ddaa.net

bazaar-fuser itself it in arch at robert.collins@canonical.com--general/bazaar-fuser--0, robert.collins@canonical.com--general is at robert.collins@canonical.com--general.

Its at very early days now, just a couple of hours fooling around, but you can checkout any branch your usercode knows about by mounting in (say) ~/arch/ then doing 'ls ~/arch/archives/archivename/branchname/latest/'

Cute eh :)

Had a great Sunday, it was a friends birthday earlier in the week, so a few of us got together (10) and had beer, yum cha, then more beer.

One of the funniest things was running into a guy who is basically a down-under clone of Daniel Silverstone - same sense of humour, similar turn of phrase, etc.

IRC and utf-8 with irssi screen and xterm.

Its doable - heres a checklist.

first of all ensure you have a utf-8 locale: $LANG should be something like en_AU.UTF-8 (on debian or derived systems you can do this with dpkg-reconfigure locales). This should be done on every system involved. I.e. if you run screen, then ssh to another system, then screen, then irssi, you'll need to do this twice. You'll also need to login again to have LANG set by the system - you can just export it if you like.

now run uxterm, not xterm to start your terminal. (If you use a more primitive terminal, you may need to use a gui menu, or some other means to get it going)

Thats the terminal. Now, for screen (repeat for however many screens are in your chain) - in your ~/.screenrc (if you don't have one, copy /etc/screenrc) put

defutf8 on

. To convert existing screens without restarting...,

Ctrl-A : defutf8 on

, and

Ctrl-A : utf8 on on

(yes on is repeated) should do the trick.

Ok, now for irssi. Just run it and it should work. If it doesn't, check /set term_type - that should be utf8 (or at least, thats what mine is and it works :).

Thanks to the patience of #debian-devel, who suffered many repeated ‽ to get this going..

Well the squid sprint is over.

We've covered another heap of ground...

squid stategic directions

introduction of a formal RequestManager, and a rough sketch at the api for using it.

more bug fixes...

Persian for lunch, and steak at a pub for dinner.

The second days of the squid sprint is over.

We've closed about 6 bugs in bugzilla by fixing them, triaged about 50 more bugs, and merged in the long pending Disk IO modularisation - so the UFS disk layout can run with AIO/Threads/DiskD/Blocking... and COSS can now use Threads/Diskd or Blocking which it couldn't before..

We also discussed some long term goals for squid, which will be taken into consideration in all design and planning. They are:

HTTP/1.1

More 'extension by module' facilities - i.e. the oft requested overnight re-verification of objects should be doable by a module.

The cache should have granular control - i.e. to deactive a cache dir when a disk has failed - this implies some sort of control channel.

Connection pinning - essentially becoming a TCP Passthrough - and support for SPNEGO.

A comprehensive test suite.

Dinner was at a nice italian place, I had Biscetti & chips :).

The squid sprint has started!

Henrik, Guido, Francesco and I all wandered around Stockholm yesterday, seeing the old city, the change of guards at the palace, and doing the tourist thing.

While doing that we found time to talk about how the Store interface in squid should look, so we can do all the different things we each want to do, in a sane way. Also in progress is an interface definition for the request manager, and store objects, again to increse flexability.

So, the Canonical/Ubuntu Mataró rocked. I...

made huge improvements to Bazaar

Had my AM report finished by Pasc!

Migrated up to HoaryHedgehog

And am generally so wasted from the intense pace, I'm pretty weird company right now.

Next ... comes a 4 day squid sprint : ROCK.