I got an invite to mugshot today... but apparently *it* cannot accept the terms of use.
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I got an invite to mugshot today... but apparently *it* cannot accept the terms of use.
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I've finally hooked up bzr-dbus to bzr-gtk: When a local branch changes its HEAD, that notifies a background task 'commit-notifier' (when the branch can be read by that task). You need to be running 'bzr commit-notify' and have bzr-dbus correctly installed (see its README). Its only just working now, so will be tweaked and tuned a bit to have the commit-notify command started automatically by GNOME, have it read remote branches (not done right now to avoid issues with needing a login box).
One nice thing is that this will notify on 'pull' commands too, so when a bzr branch or pull command completes, you get a notification.
Speeding up bzr info on the hpss with a good sized branch - samba 4.0 (which is > 200MB of bzr repository).
bzr info bzr+ssh://host/home/robertc/SAMBA_4_0 Location: branch root: bzr+ssh://host/home/robertc/SAMBA_4_0/Related branches: parent branch: http://people.samba.org/bzr/jelmer/mirror/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/
Format: control: bzr remote bzrdir branch: Remote BZR Branch repository: bzr remote repository
Branch history: 11316 revisions 1035 days old first revision: Sun 2004-04-04 08:56:30 +0000 latest revision: Wed 2007-01-24 12:23:42 +0000
Revision store: 11316 revisions 111019 KiB
Before our latest optimisations:
real 14m21.769s user 1m23.377s sys 0m11.017s
After:
real 0m11.203s user 0m0.632s sys 0m0.104s
I say 'whoot' to the sprinters!
So we've been sprinting here in Amsterdam all week. So far we've:
So, phone call today went something like this
Yeah, I was seriously cranky - after the amount of email spam I cleaned out this morning, it was -not- a good day to be spamming my mobile phone number.
I feel somewhat guilty about the abusive (its not my normal persona!) language to the poor shmuck (who sounded like they come from an Indian call centre by accent) whose job it is to spam people, but not very: they are willing to do so - so I dont feel guilty.
I do feel quite a sense of satisfaction though : imagine having one of the pharma spammers on the phone - what would you choose to say to them ?
Added to my list of 'things we need'... a version of icheck that requires less configuration to hook into package builds. Ideally one that we can get running automatically on any package build.
Yes, its sci-fi, but avoiding ABI breaks across all libraries would be fantastic.
Well, UDS mountain view is over, and all-hands.
I found the USA fun in a number of ways. However, for some reason I recieved the 'SSSS' ("Selected for Secondary Security Screening") marker on my boarding pass in both directions, which is known to not be a coincidence. So someone out there with my name is a security risk, or its because I flew from .au to .us on a .nz passport or perhaps they think I'm this guy.
I think its time we did something about this. I urge every American to start writing to your senator or representative about this.. Bruce Schneier and others have already commented on how ineffective the SSSS mechanism is.
For my part, I'm now boycotting as much as possible every company based in the USA. And I shall never visit the USA except when work compels me to.
Which is of course a shame, as many of the people in the USA are nice: but unless they collectively *do something* and fix their out of control government, the USA is heading into being a surveillance state.
Just landed a sweet feature for bzr: dotted decimal revision numbers. There is a sample log (warning its 2Mb) where you can see this in all its glory. A sneak preview is here:
------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 1986 committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager<pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com> branch nick: +trunk timestamp: Wed 2006-09-06 00:33:01 +0100 message: (robertc) Add TestCase.applyDeprecated, a common-case helper for testing deprecated functions. ------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 1982.3.3 merged: robertc@robertcollins.net-20060905231840-bd95f673d0205a81 committer: Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> branch nick: applyDeprecated timestamp: Wed 2006-09-06 09:18:40 +1000 message: Change raise AssertionError to self.fail in the new applyDeprecated test support method. ------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 1982.3.2 merged: robertc@robertcollins.net-20060905230133-2c68611e38fd7922 committer: Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> branch nick: applyDeprecated timestamp: Wed 2006-09-06 09:01:33 +1000 message: New TestCase helper applyDeprecated. This allows you to call a callable which is deprecated without it spewing to the screen, just by supplying the deprecation format string issued for it. (Robert Collins) ------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 1985 committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager<pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com> branch nick: +trunk timestamp: Tue 2006-09-05 23:13:00 +0100 message: (robertc) Add symbol_versioning.deprecation_string, a helper for establishing what a deprecation warning for a symbol, version-format pair will look like.
This is really nice for users, because it lets them address revisions in a somewhat more predictable manner than the UUID each revision has. This feature is in the mainline now, look for bzr 0.12 to be able to use it - or grab bzr.dev now!
It make be a small thing, but barriers to entry are .. barriers to entry.
Erlang has a make-life file built into the system. If you see something like 'Emakefile', you might be tempted to google 'emake'.
Dont.
Instead, run 'erl -make'.
And this is my point : that should be made much more obvious. Simply saying in the README for an app that uses this, 'build with erl -make' would remove all the mystery.
Man, paper selection is awesomely hard... but we've done it!
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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