kernel:


Still bitching over how to "solve" the interactivity problems. People seem pretty happy with Con's latest patch, but I still prefer a solution without the interactivity estimator, such as Nick Piggin's. Oh well.



64-bit dev_t support seems to be almost there, if not there. I smell 2.6.0 soonish.



procps:


procps 2.0.15 is out. Lots new -- this is a good release. New vmstat(8), with an O(1) algorithm, I/O wait support, unit selection, removal of the dumb "swapped" field, and oh-so-much cleaner code. Also new pmap(1), with new features, Solaris-like formatting, and a GPL license (replacing a BSD-like license).

So my friend Stacey received a job offer this week, and her employer is paying for to go the Geekcruise next week. It'll definitely be nice to have her along on the cruise. And I've set things up so that she, Phil Karn and his wife, and I will be seated together at the dining room. Very Cool.

Now, to convince more of my fr

Tried out the latest garnome (which is fairly close
to Gnome 2.4 I think). After fixing the wrong URLs
and installing all the extra base dependencies,
got it running.

A little better than the last time I tried. Screws up the desktop icons, the fonts and menus.

You still can't cycle through workspaces in metacity

I went bicycling for three hours today, going through Winchester, Arlington, Lexington, and Bedford for a total of 32 miles. Given that this is the longest I've ridden in probably at least 7-8 years, I'm surprised how well my bicycling muscles seem to have survived intact.

My bicycle seems to have been in pretty good shape. I had Ace Wheelworks give it a checkup, and it came back with a clean bill of health.

Wheee. At last Evolution can handle getting at IMAP servers by running a command and using its stdin/stdout, out of the box. I no longer have to maintain my own build just to have it do what pine, mutt and others have been doing for years -- just 'ssh $mailserver exec imapd' and let ssh-agent handle authentication, and ssh itself handle the magic it has to do to log into boxen on remote internal networks by running 'ssh $bastionhost netcat $internalmailserver 22' instead of connecting directly.

Unleash the fury, Mitch (aka, my book):



I wrote a book, Linux Kernel Development. It is a fun and practical guide to the design of the new 2.6 kernel, with an eye toward allowing the reader to learn enough to get some real work done.



Look for it in fine book sellers everywhere, this coming Monday (8 Sept 2003).

Am I just getting crankier in my old age, or is the general intelligence of the world's population really declining?

A few years I ago I'm sure I didn't notice so many people displaying such incompetent usage of the English language -- now there are even signs in supermarkets with crap like "10 items or less" and some people don't even understand what's wrong with that.

Called Three to ask about data services -- after all, the whole point in 3G phones is that you'll get data connectivity which doesn't suck as much as GPRS, right?

They aren't offering data services.

They have no current plans to do so.

Er, so what's the point?

Fucking Useless Telco.

The email flood seems to be fairly easily stemmed by a few simple rules.

First, don't accept mail without a Message-ID.

Second, don't let mailing lists accept bounce messages (i.e. messages with empty MAIL FROM:<>)

Third, enable sender verification callouts; also for recipients if your machine is MX backup for anyone.

There's been no vir{uses,ii} and only one 'bounce' get through to the linux-mtd list, and that one was because some vegetable managed to configure a virus checker to send its bounces as real messages instead of bounces -- either through cluelessness or in an attempt to add mail loops to the fun which is already being had by all. Abuse@upstream duly notified.

I've been measuring my weight, body fat, blood pressure/pulse, blood sugar, amount of exercise, and amount of sleep every morning, and I've found it useful and interesting to be paying attention to this level of data on a continuing basis. It's pretty clear for example, that exercise has direct correlation to my morning fasting blood sugar levels. If I don't do much exercise (only 30 minutes a day once or twice a week), keeping all else (diet, mediciation, etc.) constant, my morning blood sugar levels are between 100 and 110. If I am actively exercising (> 45 minutes most days of the week), my morning blood sugar levels decline to the low 90's.