July 2005 – Lisa Seelye

Bugs!

In 3 years, 200 days, 23 hours, and 39 minutes Gentoo got 100.000 bugs.
That’s 77.1613620909 bugs per day.
The first bug on record is How do I attach an ebuild. (at 2002-01-04 02:39 PDT) and the 100.000th is clanlib 0.7.8-r1 can’t emerge (xargs: environment is too large for exec) (at 2005-07-23 03:18 PDT). As of this post we are up to 100.109 bugs. The off-by-one in the counting is because the first bug is #2. And as we all know 100.002-2 = 100.000!

I wonder how many of these are due to people using crazy CFLAGS?

Edit: Random wanker Daniel Hancock’s comment is deleted and his IP is 218.101.84.118 for future reference.

I’m here in America, would rather be home

Yeah.
I’m here.
TSA stole my zippo.
I’d rather be home in York with my fianc

Offline until further notice

Monday afternoon I’m going to shut down my desktop and pack it away into my suitcase and make my way to London, then Dublin, then JFK, then Rochester.

Not sure when I’m going to be online again. I’m due to get in to ROC at 19:30ish. If everything goes okay I’ll try and set everything up that night and say hello. If not I’ll try and find another machine to use…

This will not be a fun trip. My fianc

Means to an end

It occurs to me that I lead a very dull life.

My daily routine is something like: Play Ultima Online………

Yeah, dull.

This year I’ve been in a tough spot since I’ve been in the UK I’m not allowed to work because I am on a visitor’s visa. My fianc

It was rejected

The European Parliament has voted by a massive majority to reject the software patents directive, formally known as the Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions. The vote to scrap the bill was passed by a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 abstentions.

Go Europe.

What, huh?

Okay, in case you haven’t seen the numerous images urging EU citizens to tell their representitives to vote no on the patent thing here’s a text thingy:

EU citizens! Tell your representitives in EU parliment to either absorb the United States (since it seems so hell-bent on emulating it) or to deviate and vote no on the patent thingy.

One thing down, and another pops up again.

With bugs #42712 and #94444 out of the way the way is paved to figure out what on earth to do with this bug. As I’m typing now I’m thinking perhaps moving the patch to sys-devel/distcc-config since it’s a patch for distcc-config and not distcc.

I also was finally suckered into taking on ccache maintainership. After two years someone finally managed to pin it on me. I kid, I kid.

On a personal note:

My ears REALLY fucking hurt. Going to see my doc next week after a blood test. Going to ask him to see what’s going on and perform a hearing test since I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a bit of loss as a result of fluid buildup or infection.

I’m also headed to Heathrow on the night of the 18th and should arrive in the wee hours of the 19th. Check in at 05:15, flight leaves 07:15 and get to Rochester at around 19:35 (New York time). What a crap time to go back to Rochester, though truthfully ANY time is a bad time to go to Rochester, but in the summer it is a really bad move.