Ok, maybe things are getting better (by alaric)
We're still a bit borderline on the financial side, but it looks like we'll last the week.
On the downside, my main server was down for two days last week 🙁 This was due to our ISP not paying his ISP, and being disconnected.
However, my driving lessons are going well. I seem to have mastered the reverse park quite neatly, so I'm starting to feel quite confident about the next test, on the 24th.
Work has been tricky; everything seems to be going wrong with the infrastructures I'm trying to build on top of.
On the project with the broken hardware, I now have new hardware, and the special PCI card is recognised by the Linux kernel according to dmesg and the set of loaded modules, but it won't seem to talk to userland at all. I'm currently trying to trace the problem down the kernel->hotplug->udev pipeline. I hate Linux.
On my ongoing support/development contract with Frontwire, I'm trying to fix a few old but annoying bugs in the Workspace software, but something's gone wrong with Swing or my X server - because all Swing windows come up as blank grey rectangles. Which is making testing a pain. I've been spending all the time on it trying to migrate the build process to run on the Mac so I can do it with the native Swing rather than X-over-ssh from the Linux box. I hate Linux.
Bleargh. Why must I spend my time dealing with rubbish like that, rather than actually doing useful stuff?
When I have more money, I'll hire UNDERLINGS to do this kind of thing for me. I'll make them wear boiler suits, and then I'll sit in a motorised chair wearing a white suit and stroking a cat.
Sun 12th Feb 2006 11:08 pm 
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