Well the laptop has been running mostly well since I upgraded it. Just a few times when it really had problems. Most of those seem to have been solved by making KDE start a fresh session every time rather than trying to use what I had running last time. It means a bit of manual tweaking each time I log in, but I tend to just leave it on most of the time.
I have Jono and James here this week working with me and we are attacking both features and usability issues with Launchpad and Bazaar. I feel that things are coming along nicely.
I've just joined a squash club, but yet to organise my first game. I know that I'll be really stiff after the first smack around.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Going gutsy
I upgraded my desktop machine to Gutsy (Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10) several weeks ago, and it has been going reasonably well, so it is time to upgrade the laptop. The distribution upgrader application happily told me that I needed to download around 1.4 gig of updates that would take around 2 days 7 hours using a 56K modem. I'm happy that I have a decent ADSL connection, although it is still saying that it has got between 4 and 7 hours remaining depending on the current download speed.
The official Gutsy release candidate is in about a week or two. If you feel so inclined, you too can upgrade and help report bugs.
I just wish I could figure out how to use my favourite window picker that beryl has that compiz doesn't seem to (or at least I haven't found it yet).
The official Gutsy release candidate is in about a week or two. If you feel so inclined, you too can upgrade and help report bugs.
I just wish I could figure out how to use my favourite window picker that beryl has that compiz doesn't seem to (or at least I haven't found it yet).
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
Rediscovering stuff
When we left for the UK we only took a couple of suitcases. After a number of years away we sold our house and put much stuff in storage. This stuff has just been delivered to our house.
There is much cool stuff there. As I was helping the guys get the stuff out of the van, I grabbed a box that said "Glass, Fragile" and it was somewhat squashed and at the bottom of a pile. Yes there was a broken glass vase in there, but I haven't gone through everything yet.
I did find a copy of "Ferdinand" that was given to me back in 1975. It is in quite good nick given its age.
More unpacking to happen this weekend I guess.
There is much cool stuff there. As I was helping the guys get the stuff out of the van, I grabbed a box that said "Glass, Fragile" and it was somewhat squashed and at the bottom of a pile. Yes there was a broken glass vase in there, but I haven't gone through everything yet.
I did find a copy of "Ferdinand" that was given to me back in 1975. It is in quite good nick given its age.
More unpacking to happen this weekend I guess.
Crap at blogging
I can't believe that it has been almost a month since my last post.
I'm sure it is because I don't really think that much I've what I'm doing is really interesting to anyone :-)
I'm sure it is because I don't really think that much I've what I'm doing is really interesting to anyone :-)
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
CVu time again
Every couple of months I end up with a busy time for ACCU. This is the time when all the articles need to be with the production editor, and the period just before making sure that they all get there on time (or not too late anyway), and the period after when reviewing all the proofs.
ACCU is great in that it gets developers writing articles for other developers on all sorts of topics, and this month is no exception.
ACCU is great in that it gets developers writing articles for other developers on all sorts of topics, and this month is no exception.
Thursday, 19 July 2007
I've been sucked into the world that is facebook. Invited by one of the guys that I used to play rugby with in the UK. I had been staying away from the social networks (apart from Linked In). I had heard they were addictive, and I didn't really see the point.
However when I received the invite I thought "Why not?", so I registered. The interesting part was when I let facebook check my gmail box for people that I know. There were quite a few people that I knew already using facebook. Yay what fun.
However when I received the invite I thought "Why not?", so I registered. The interesting part was when I let facebook check my gmail box for people that I know. There were quite a few people that I knew already using facebook. Yay what fun.
Sunday, 15 July 2007
Another week
Well the school holidays are now almost over and tomorrow morning I have to start getting up early again. Not looking forward to that.
Last week was another chaotic work week with the branches for the next release needed to to be ready for review a week ago, and then reviewed and merged by the end of the week just been. By the start of Friday there were around 15ish branches in the queue. By the end of the day over 20. It took some time and a couple of tries but finally my branches made it through.
I really do love bzr. The tool allowed me to merge my three branches into the first. When that failed due to a branch that landed just prior, I merged that first branch (now three branches) into the second (which is one of the three) and fixed the problems. That one failed too but for a different reason. I then merged the second branch into the third and fixed the next. At this stage I also included another branch of a colleague and resolved all the conflicts and errors. That one made it. Yay! Bzr rocks!
Last week was another chaotic work week with the branches for the next release needed to to be ready for review a week ago, and then reviewed and merged by the end of the week just been. By the start of Friday there were around 15ish branches in the queue. By the end of the day over 20. It took some time and a couple of tries but finally my branches made it through.
I really do love bzr. The tool allowed me to merge my three branches into the first. When that failed due to a branch that landed just prior, I merged that first branch (now three branches) into the second (which is one of the three) and fixed the problems. That one failed too but for a different reason. I then merged the second branch into the third and fixed the next. At this stage I also included another branch of a colleague and resolved all the conflicts and errors. That one made it. Yay! Bzr rocks!
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