Category: Gentoo

Well I’m back in New York, as of the 12th. I suppose a short update is in order…

Everything in Trinidad went well. Thank you to everyone for your help, you know who you are.

Anne and I are scheduled to fly back to England on the 24th of October. This will go ahead if I have my passport! A critical piece of evidence was a week late in getting into my hands and so the State Department has 5 business days plus Saturday to get my passport to me. *gulp* Good thing I asked for expedited service.. I know they received my application on the 13th at midday in Philly. Should be enough time (she tells herself…).

Anyways.

Once I get back to England I will likely inherit Anne’s laptop which will be put to UO usage so my desktop can return to its Linux glory cos frankly Windows is irritating.

I’ve got lots of motivation and really want to (finally) test SLP support in Distcc. I’ll have to set up Hydrogen (our fileserver) to use the correct toolchain as Lithium (my desktop) and Helium (our general purpose server box) to have matching configs for glibc, distcc, and gcc. Fun! 😉

okay
in the past i’ve made references to surgery… my fiancee and i registered a domain http://www.helpmyfiancee.com please read and pass it on.

thank you

if anyone has questions pm me on irc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The diff has been posted that will update the outdated (?) existing guide.

I am SO glad to get that out of the way.