Tag: advogato
Advogato Weirdness
January 13th, 2005, No Comments
I’ve noticed that Advogato has been suffering from the same mysterious, random file loss problem that hit robots.net a while back. As best I can tell this is due to a race condition in the “out of disk space” patch. My problems ended once I reverted the patch in my mod_virgule codebase. On the upside, [...]
Random News Updates
October 28th, 2004, No Comments
Halloween We didn’t have many trick-or-treaters stopping by our house to stock up on candy last Halloween, so we’re not planning on much activity this year. And we don’t have any Halloween costume parties in our plans either. You won’t even find a pumpkin with a candle inside at our house this year. But even [...]
mod_virgule and UTF-8 weirdness
October 31st, 2003, No Comments
I’m seeing more and more UTF-8 related issues pop up in code lately for some reason. Much of the debugging work I’ve done with the ODP XML dumps has been tracking down illegal XML characters and invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. Now I’ve run across a related bug in mod_virgule. The trust metrics on robots.net stopped [...]
Sousa, Meat Paddles, and Clones
July 7th, 2002, No Comments
I’d better catch up on news before I start falling too far behind. For the 4th this year, Susan and I went to a an event up in Frisco. It was held at the Hall Office Park near the Texas Sculpture Garden. We saw the best fireworks we’ve seen in quite a few years. Prior [...]
Living Life and Writing About It
March 29th, 2002, No Comments
Life and Stories Yikes, I’ve let too much time slip past since my last entry again! Seems like when I’m doing things worth writing about I get too busy to write. And when I have time to write it’s because I’m not out doing anything worth writing about. Didn’t Sartre say something along those lines? [...]
A Mammal Returns to the C
February 22nd, 2001, No Comments
The last couple of days I’ve been working intently on some C code. This is a nice change from meetings and the other stuff I’ve been doing lately. It’s also an interesting change from Perl which I’ve been doing so much of in the last few months. After writing so much Perl code, C is [...]
Crazy Connector Revealed
June 14th, 2000, No Comments
A couple of people noticed that I screwed up the filename in the link I included yesterday for mod_virgule. The prize goes to fozbaca for being the first to email me and report the problem. I fixed the link, so anyone who had problems grabbing my new and improved (and unofficial) version of mod_virgule should [...]
Turtles, Perl Monks, and Fidonet
April 28th, 2000, No Comments
Susan and I spent the afternoon at Fair Park the other day and shot a lot of photos of turtles. Susan got creative and scanned one of the pictures and wrote a short essay about turtles. Someone on Advogato mentioned a new Perl site called Perl Monks. They have a much more elaborate trust/skill metric [...]
