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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Prodded mail properly for the first time: wow, there is a lot
of it. Played with Empathy some more, looks good, writing down the
minor irritations for future reference / fixing. Call with Florian.
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Caught up with a certain amount of admin / bug filing. Call
from Murfitts / builders wrt. a deadline for their quote: end of the
month. Played with Conduit a little on the local network. Lunch with
Laura.
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OO.o team meeting, call with JP, call with Grant, more talk
with JP. After much digging into rpm things, I discovered that the
mystic spec file goodness:
make %{?jobs:-j%jobs} is
best handled with some rpmbuild --eval '%define jobs 8' -ba foo.spec
than otherwise, sadly much googling, manual and code reading didn't
make this at all obvious.
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When is Open Source
not that open source ? - when it is inorganic of course; J. reading a
book Swindled currently on fake food (it's not as good as expected,
perhaps like the food). Should we have an open-source FDA, that can name
& shame harmful additives ?
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Dunged out the laptop disk, somehow filled 250Gb rather too
quickly, kicked off some new m28 split builds.
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Poked at the sofa again: just playing with finding the depth of
the various holes with some wire - when (much to my amazement) I hooked
a hugeish beetle out of one of the holes; somewhat surprising to say
the least. Stuck it on one of the Rentokill beetle sticking pads, though
clearly these are designed for lesser beasts - it could move slowly
around / off it. Managed to clap it inside a jam-jar, and kill it with
some handy permethrin
woodworm killer. Examining it it seems to be a False Powder Post beetle
identical to the picture here: ,
Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful about Bostrichidae
sadly.
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)
