The results of the weekend have left an interesting quarter final line-up. This of course means the Australia vs England match is right at the time we hopefully arrive in Manchester with a van full of Fliss’ stuff for her move North. If we get unpacked fast enough we may even to be able to [...]
Archive of entries posted on September 2007
Rugby
Mark and Helen came around to support England on wide-o-vision. I was quite happy with the result although I’m sure we are going to have to play a lot better in the next game.
Install Day
I spent most of the day trying to re-create bugs in my release candidate. I hadn’t had much success by half six and I had a bit of a headache coming on so I decided to get home relatively early. Unaccustomed to having quite so much free time I thought I’d give my PS3 a [...]
Hoax?
Via Bruce Schneier‘s site. Apparently wearing a flashing LED on your t-shirt is a good reason to use deadly force. Because we all know that real bombs are made with circuit board and flashing LED’s. You always cut the red wire right? Just don’t read some of the commentary unless you want to see what [...]
Those smiley Irish eyes
You have to hand it to the Irish, despite watching a rather crushing defeat by the French in the rugby it didn’t dampen their spirits. We stayed in O’Sheas after the match and enjoyed the band until we eventually left around half one in the morning. We caught up with Philipa, Gillian and TJ in [...]
Pizza Mode
We entered Pizza mode this week to crunch through the 25 or so bugs that are currently gating the Beta release. By the end of Tuesday we’d gotten down to zero critical bugs and it looked good for another release candidate on Wednesday and I’d get home in time to cook the Wednesday meal. Luckily [...]
Bruised
Today is going to be a gentle one methinks. Fliss and I went paint-balling yesterday to celebrate Karl’s (of Phil and Karl) birthday. Most of the 24 strong group ended up on one team playing a bunch of teenagers who seemed shocked at how we kept beating them. Of course they did keep loosing players [...]
They think it’s all over…
A few days ago I briefly mentioned the SCO case. Well it seems the fat lady is very possibly singing now. While in Chapter 11 SCO can’t pursue it’s litigation strategy. As that seemed to be their primary business plan I don’t believe SCO has got long for this world. It’s obviously a shame for [...]
And finally….
I forgot of course the best piece of news of the last few days is AMD’s announcement of Open Drivers. Finally.
Trashing the OS of “Developers”
Sun would really like Solaris to re-capture the hearts of developers since loosing so many to Linux. They are certainly making strides in the right direction with their Open Source strategy. However sometimes the creakiness of the code does show up. I’ve spent the best part of the day trying to get the mpstat command [...]
