up to the date
workSpent the last few days chasing down a doubt-your-compiler, hate-your-life bug. Segfaults deep in the python interpreter, but always in the same place -- in python code, inside twisted. Only...
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A few things. Too lazy to write complete sentences. (A disease that I should cure at some point.)hackingHacking a lot on GStreamer, for the 0.9 version. Core approaching stable, with some possible...
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Just spent two days trying to get Ubuntu to install on a Dell Precision 380. It works fine without USB, but these days that's not good enough. Got a bit painful at the end, and the hangover on the...
View ArticleGoogle profiler a nice gesture but.
So Google released a set of performance-measuring tools as free software. There's a really fast allocator, a heap usage profiler, a cpu profiler, and some other goodies.The CPU profiler is touted as...
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Simple script to do a binary search over your CVS repository to find out at when you serviced the pooch. Similar in spirit to git-bisect, although much more pedestrian.Fetch it here: cvs-bisect. A...
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OriginalI hacked a bit more on my version of Original this weekend. It now shows EXIF data, has previous and next links on each photo, medium and high quality images, links to tags with recent activity...
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PhotosWent through and tagged the rest of my photos, resulting in an enormous tag cloud. The thresholds can be tweaked but I think it's rather interesting.As far as the software goes, recent changes:...
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tape ate the player
HomeI've had a series of fine days. A festa major in a small street near Gràcia, a meatful party at the house in which no glass was broken, and for the first time I was chosen as the person on whom the...
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I was ruminating on Flumotion, the free-software streaming server that I hack as a day job. We don't really do contributors. That's not because of a lack of public SVN, not because of a lack of a...
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bread crumbs
hackI have been a creature of the machine lately. My current project is Guile profiling, but it proves to have many distracting components. For example: cumulative self total percent percent calls...
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