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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Started trying to debug the non-booting / kernel panic of my AMD64
machine: most odd - played with install and remove of packages:
still some odd things going on there. Tried to track down an
intermittent firefox crash in valgrind: with no joy. Filed a broken
USB issue (hmm) - tried the latest kotd: still no USB, not good.
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Lunch, Lydia around. Poked #sysadmins about my strange blog woes,
good to see Jeff again. Interesting that
www.gnome.org
answers replies to queries rather differently depending on where
they come from (apparently) - some people just get ECONNRESET almost
immediately (perhaps a firewall issue). Of course, wget works from
everywhere - here is the query it does:
GET /~michael/blog/index.atom HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.11.1
Accept: */*
Host: www.gnome.org
Connection: Keep-Alive
vs. the query the uber-powerful (etc.) feedparser code does
(apparently due to some fun charset love:
GET /~michael/blog/index.atom HTTP/1.0
Host: www.gnome.org
A-im: feed
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: application/atom+xml,application/rdf+xml,application/rss+xml,application/x-netcdf,application/xml;q=0.9,text/xml;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
User-agent: Planet go-oo +http://planet.go-oo.org/ Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org UniversalFeedParser/4.1 +http://feedparser.org/
Presumably the latter looks like a DDOS attack, but only from some
IPs (perhaps go-oo.org has a dodgy 2nd hand Russian-Mafia-style
IP address).
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Pondered LXF column. Kendy produced a lovely patch
to reduce the N^2 statting stupidity in OO.o trying to find java
at OO.o startup I was
moaning about - should more than halve OO.o startup time in
a virtualised world.
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Out into Cambridge by bus to meet Christian & Rob at the Cambridge Camra beer festival. Unexpectedly met
an old acquaintance Christian Ashby outside, also Simon Kelso, then tons
of people inside: Steve Macintyre, Andrew Haley, Matthew Garret, Ben, and
lots of fun people from Amino and
SolarFlare; with more
random acquaintances: Keith Cooper & Alan. Apparently Cambridge has a
higher density of cool kids than most places it seems.
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)
