Insignificant Bits

I’ve been a slacker, so here’s the 10 second update:

Iron man was good. You knew that two weeks ago.

Ange and I had our immigration interview for her green card. We’re on tenterhooks right now hoping that we get an affirmative answer quickly. (Fun fact: a tenter was used to stretch cloth in the 14th century and the tenterhooks were, I guess, hooks on it. Isn’t history fun!)

We also watched LOTR all week. Still awesome.

Nerd-cool stuff I’m playing with lately:

• UML – user mode linux, I hope to get this up and running so I can script git-bisect
• coLinux – like UML for windows, which I want to use for a distcc compile farm setup at home. Alternately, someone on lazyweb can port distcc for me?
• oprofile – profile your whole box, great for ‘why is X using 90% cpu’ and ‘did ath5k_rx_tasklet ever get called?’
• ccache – Java needs this

I’m playing with date conversions today, and again I’m struck by how much the Java Calendar should be held up as an example of the over-engineered API. Has anyone ever used anything besides the Gregorian calendar? They were so proud of it when it hit 1.1.

I should have two patches hitting kernel 2.6.26, one entirely cosmetic and one that fixes a real bug on Atheros wireless cards. Akpm did pick up the OMFS patchset so hopefully that will go in .27 timeframe, though the jury is still out on whether it hits mainline.

In other news, take that, Skype!

The libpam-mount configuration file has changed to a new XML format.

Aaaaaaghhh, no!!!!