AFFIRMED and ADOPTED in its entirety

Posted on Thu 30 November 2006 in geek

And finally this put a smile on my face before going to bed.

UPDATE: And so didthis


Git and CVS

Posted on Thu 30 November 2006 in geek

Given we have shipped 1.0 the pressure to get changes into the code base has abated a little. I've spent a large chunk of the day trying to work out how to get Git and CVS to play well together. I'm convinced by the power of mini atomic commits …


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1.0

Posted on Tue 28 November 2006 in geek

We shipped version 1.0 of Quicktransit SPARC Solaris to X86-64 last night. As a result we went for a nice team lunch followed by one or two jars at the local hostelry. I'm currently running a little late getting in this morning. These two facts may or may not …


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Shiny shiny things...

Posted on Mon 20 November 2006 in geek

It's true I'm weak. I went into the phone shop to enquire where one might get those foam bits that fit on ear phones. I walked out having renewed my contract with a shiny black K800i. Initial impressions are good. The camera is pretty good with its 3.2 mega-pixels …


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It's full of Pulsars

Posted on Sun 12 November 2006 in geek

I spent the day at Jodrell Bank on a tour of the facility. It was all good science geek stuff with a fair dash of engineering thrown in. In computational terms they are dealing with massive amounts of data at very high speeds. The new fibre optic link that is …


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