Diary November 2001
- Friday 30
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Failed to wake up. Got to work at 10:30ish, had a long lunch, and left
again at about 3:30. Failed to do any more Christmas shopping -
it is not possible to buy a box of birthday cards at this time
of year.
- Thursday 29
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Finished up adding ipv4 option support to sendip and fixed a large hole
in the documentation.
- Wednesday 28
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Fixed another memory leak. Played with tabbed browsing in Mozilla. It
is really rather nice especially once it is configured nicely.
- Tuesday 27
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Did some more xmas shopping. Spent most of the day at work chasing
memory leaks (and bugs in the memory-leek-finding code. Added
ipv4 option support to sendip
- Monday 26
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Spent the morning figuring out why our really fast jpeg compressor
needed 2GB RAM to compress a 58MB JPEG. Spent the afternoon
changing it to only need 1GB (which is actually reasonable - the
uncompressed image needs around 200MB and yuo need at least 4
times that). Did some xmas shopping.
- Sunday 25
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All day band rehersal, to which I was late due to the M3 and M27 being
carparks. Got home about 5:30ish too knackered to do anything
even vaguely useful.
- Saturday 24
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Went up to Oxford for a game of frisbee in the afternoon, followed by a
few pints and a rather nice meal.
- Friday 23
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More paperwork in the morning. GRRR. First patch to sendip arrived 10
minutes after last night's release. It makes it FHS compliant,
apparently. This seems to involve moving the magic man page
from /usr/man/man1 to /usr/share/man/man1. I'm not convinced I
like this change, but who am I to argue with the wisdom of the
FHS. It also fixes a trivial Makefile buglet that breaks iff
/usr/bin doesn't exist.
- Thursday 22
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Spent the day trying to persuade our video server to talk to Windows
Media Player. This first involved fixing the server which had
got *very* upset due to an overheating RAID array. Still, got
it going in the end. Released sendip-2.0.
- Wednesday 21
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Spent most of the morning doing paperwork, and most of the afternoon
surfing the web. Found a very cool little
"weblication&qout; that makes windows windows translucent.
Not really very useful, but quite good fun. All-in-all, not a
terribly productive day.
Did some more sendip stuff, mostly playing with help2man.
- Tuesday 20
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Much the same as yesterday. Hacked sendip some more. 2.0 will be out
by the end of the week, possibly.
- Monday 19
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Spent the day at work catching up with email backlog, and finishing off
a few bits from the Italian job.
- Sunday 18
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All day band rehersal which meant I had to get up. Too knackered to do
anything useful by the time I got home.
- Saturday 17
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Spent most of the day getting from Rome to home, and catching up on some
of my email backlog.
- Friday 16
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Hang over time :( Got rid of it with rather a lot of fantastic Italian
coffee for breakfast. Went in to work at about 10, and left
about noon as one of my colleages was flying home. Spent the
afternoon wondering around the middle of Rome running up a phone
bill by keep phoning the magic number that tells you where you
are and why it is famous. Managed to find a rather good
restuarant for dinner, though not as good as last night. Then
managed to find the way back to the hotel, though probably not
by the quickest route. Packed.
- Thursday 15
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The metro was back in working order, so we made it in to work in plenty
of time for our 10am meeting. The Italians wondered in at
around 11:30. Went to a video conference with the customer in
the afternoon, which started an hour late, and