Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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- Up extremely late; to photographers for pictures
of H. the world is somewhat cloudy at the periphery today. The
laptop did some cunning shutdown it couldn't recover from while
building OO.o last-night; need Homer Simpson's woodpecker to hit
ctrl all night.
- Discovered after power cycling the laptop that
Reiser gave me some simply beautiful file corruption - what
should be text files full of random binary crud. Perhaps setting
the disk flush time to 5 minutes and upping the buffer size was
not such a cunning plan.
- Discovered that all 3 of my builds had completed
nicely; halleluja - all failed to push though, no space on
corona. Spent another few hours manually creating jails,
pushing to qa via some hacked up ugliness.
- Blown away by the sheer bulk of file system
corruption on the reiser file-system, hundreds of files full
of crud blowing the compilation away. Started a complete
re-build.
- Re-tested / back-ported Mathias B's
format->character crasher fix - seems to work, good.
Talked to Krishnan - there seem to be some exciting things
going on with OO.o with Novell's presence at the Bangalore
Linux conference, loads of interest, banners, students,
interested hackers etc. - great stuff from Anil and Krish,
demoing' a 680 build as well as our 1.1 stuff.
- Released ORBit2-2.8.3, lots of bug fixes that
should have been in 2.4.1 (how could I miss that). Worked
away at an action plan for the OO.o team, lots of fun,
OO.o is going to leap and bound in the next few months.
- Tried to help JP with an annoying Bonobo UI
bug related to the a11y separator item fix. Had dinner, J.
off to help with Alpha at church, looked after H. cried a
lot, very fast, shallow breathing - worrying. Hacked /
committed the last bits of the alpha icons to the OO.o cws.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
