Diary January 2002
- Saturday 26
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Drove home, which took as long as getting there because it was absolutly
chucking it down all the way, and there were gale force winds.
Watched TV. Generally recovered.
- Friday 25
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Left work at lunch time, drove to Harpenden. The M25 was actually
moving. The M1 wasn't. Went to Keble London Dinner, which was
actually quite good. Stayed in Harpenden.
- Wednesday 23
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Does anybody anywhere know how to send packets with any IP options set
from a Solaris box? I've tried everything I can think of, asked
everyone I know who might know, serveral I know and definately
won't know, and quite a few I don't know at all. Nobody knows.
... 3 hours and some evil hacks later ... I now know! You
really don't want to. Improved
sendip's ability to generate random IP adresses. And, er, thats
about it, really.
- Tuesday 22
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Converted the rest of the tests to the new API with the same cunning
sed. Ha, that's code reuse, that is. Got an email asking about
sendip on Solaris, which turned into a 7 hour hacking session
starting at about 6pm when I got in from work. SendIP now
compiles and looks like it probably works on Solaris 8, as long
as you don't try and send any IPv6 packets. Fixed at least 3
bugs the effect all arches in the process. 2.1 will get
released next week, probably.
- Monday 21
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Converted one of our 15 tests to use a different API (to achieve exactly
the same thing). Much deeply cunning sed was involved. as they
have removed a pointless level of indirection. That really was
the highlight of the day.
- Sunday 20
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Played Civ. Finished upgrading heaven. Experimented with 2.5.2 and gcc
3.0.3 with very little success. gcc doesn't compile. 2.5.2
does with suitable patches. It might even boot, maybe...
- Saturday 19
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Played with the webcam some more. It now autorefreshes in some browsers
on a good day. NTL's connectivity has been being randomly crap
all day, which didn't help. Started upgrading heaven to redhat
7.2. Played some more Civ. Went to bed by 5am, just.
- Friday 18
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Did work. Played Civ. Watched TV.
- Thursday 17
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Did work. Went shopping (bought more deicer). Watched TV.
- Wednesday 16
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Ran out of deicer. Did work. Watched TV.
- Tuesday 15
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Made up most of the hours from the last week, especially yesterday.
Left work around 20:30. This was largely because I completely
failed to notice what time it was. As a result, didn't do a
whole lot else.
- Monday 14
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Returned the hire car. Had an almost entirely unproductive day at
work. Nothing seemed to want to work. Got phoned up just
before lunch to say that my car is finally ready, but they can't
deliver it until Friday. Bloody great. Spent the afternoon
figuring out how to get to the middle of Portsmouth without a
car. Ended up getting a lift to the station, getting a train
that failed to stop even though it was meant to, getting another
train back, and ending up with 10 minutes to get 500m. And they
wonder why nobody uses trains. Still, got the car back, and it
seems to work.
- Saturday 12
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Got the web cam
working. This wasn't as easy as it might have been. The data
coming out of the camera is in a *really* wierd format, and
ImageMagick is horribly broken. It turns out that building an
image in memory and converting that to a ppm mostly works, with
occasional overruns. ImageMagick can then convert this to a
jpeg. Whoever thought RGRGRGRGRG....../GBGBGBGB.... was a
sensible data order should be shot. Spent ages figuring out how
you are meant to do p