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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- Nice to see Noel
blog about the great VBA work he (& the team) has been doing in OO.o / calc.
To get involved checkout the wiki,
to play with packages (NLD9/SL9.3/SL10.0) see http://red-carpet.go-oo.org/,
and grab
hypocycloid-demo.xls. In fact, although this is quite a simple, but good
looking macro, we can do way more useful things too, development help appreciated
though.
- Poked at E-mail, looked at the Gentoo -Bdirect bug - nice to get
some testing / measurement help from those guys. Fixed my Nildram billing
address, 1+year after we moved; hmm.
- Continually amazed by how much better bugzilla.novell.com gets over time,
ergonomics improvements, upgrades, improved functionality - blissful in
comparison with IssueZilla; log-in & return to the same bug
authenticated eg.
- Did another run of finterpose now with a c++-filt symbol
display for C++ loving, generated a new dump of duplicated symbols for Kai
who showed an interest in that. It's encouraging that almost all uses of
interposing I can detect [ outside of dup plugin entry points ] are bugs
and not features; it's clearly well worth slowing down the whole system
link time by a factor of 1-2 orders of magnitude only to create bugs.
- Interesting pointer from Kevin F.Quinn about the Solaris
-z interpose linker
feature a "ld-preload this library" type flag; might be useful for
the glibc pthreads bits. Installed some development stuff on the slow
laptop with yast2 - there's another app that needs some profiling love -
to speedprof to be compiled. Upgraded to the latest evo. snapshot to get
a different set of bugs: a change is as good as a rest.
- An interesting feature of the 'jre' seems to be that it
provides a ton of commonly used symbols - presumably to save others the
effort of implementing these functions; eg.
get_string, slen, free_list,
list_size, reference even better than that - in case of a single
instance failing - they're defined by multiple libraries. Mailed Glynn a
list of obvious problems - when you look closer it just gets worse.
Mailed the CDDB author too, and the cdparanoia chap, mailed Dick Porter
about Mono too; gave up - too tiresome; all bugs.
- Filed an xorg/NetworkManager bug. A11y conference call,
read the COBE during the call.
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)
