Susan bought a new desk the other day, one she'd had her eye on for quite a while. She bought it from one of those modern flat-pack furniture shops (no, not the Swedish one) and paid a tidy sum for it. To say we're disappointed with the result is a mild understatement -- but the whole experience … Continue reading How much should you have to pay for quality?
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My TOE last week showed clear -- no PFO! So now the guessing-game continues as to what (if anything specific) causes me to have these heart issues. While it's a bit tedious that the testing has to go on, it is good to know I don't have a hole in my heart!
I saw the cardiologist during the week. While the outlook is far from grim, there is a chance that I have one of the "hole-in-the-heart" conditions. I'm to have a test next week called a transoesophageal echocardiogram or TOE (TEE for American readers, since oesophagus starts with 'e' up there).A TOE involves me swallowing an ultrasound transducer … Continue reading Health update
The GCC/glibc update on the desktop system did eventually finish. At each point it had stopped, I noted what it failed on so I could go back later. Once I fixed the dependency that was causing everything to fail, I could re-emerge those packages that failed first time around.In case you're curious, the reason for the failure … Continue reading Gentoo Games, part two
It's bothered me for some time that I was unable to host SSL on more than one domain. And the structure of the directories in my web server was not appealing to me. So I decided to rearrange some things -- with varying levels of success.I relocated directories for a couple of the internal webapps I run. This … Continue reading Web site Fun
We're now well into Day Four of the Gentoo gcc/glibc update. Part of the reason it's taking so long is that it seems to have missed gtk early on, and anything that depends on gtk is failing its ebuild. So a lot of the good overnight processing time has been squandered sitting at an "emerge failed" error. Then, … Continue reading Gentoo games
Since my heart attack in 2004, my cardiologist has had me on a drug called simvastatin. He prescribed it to me on the basis that it was meant to keep my cholesterol level under control -- I did not have high cholesterol, he just wanted to make sure that it didn't get out of control. After my … Continue reading The preventative medicine that does stuff too!
I've bitten the bullet and kicked off the upgrade to GCC 4.1.1. I'll get my system back in about a week I reckon... :)Gentoo recommends a process that starts off rebuilding GCC and glibc, but continues on to rebuild your entire system. Fair enough too: mixing binaries built with different compilers and linked against different library levels … Continue reading Gentoo GCC/glibc update
Okay, I think the problem is fixed... This post should be a verification of that. Once again, huge apologies to anyone who might be subscribed via RSS and whose reader didn't make sense of the multiples. I subscribe to this blog (subscribing to your own blog--how vain is that) using Akgregator. The only weird thing I saw with it was one extra … Continue reading Should be fixed now
What a mess. This new feature I was so proud of seems to have really caused a flap. It repeated the same blog entry over and over, evey half-hour, for the last day! We're debugging the problem, and know what the workaround is to avoid a repeat. I just hope that anyone viewing this via RSS wasn't driven too … Continue reading …and promptly broke it again
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