March 2004 Archives

Simulation routine seems more stable

It looks like I've got the simulation routine back under control.
For a while there all I had was downgrades happening. Turns out that
there was a sign error in one of the conditional statements making it
always terminate.

I still need to implement the linear vs. random zone thing for low occupancy.

Bad randomness in the system.

Fix the repaint rate for the linux game (use an offscreen pixmap). It bites
at the moment when I fullscreen the game (slow, juddery).

Music

Halcyon on and on - orbital
Real Wild Child - Dave owens
Voodoo People - Prodigy
Protection - Massive Attack
One Love - Prodigy
Open Up - Leftfield & John Lydon
Original Bedroom Rockers - Kruder & Dorfmeister
Cowgirl - Underworld
Good Grief - Urban Dance Squad
Grand Central Station - Deep Cover
Inspector Check One - Leftfield
Connected - Stereo MCs
Heaven Knows - squeeeze

Moo!

Lovely day at the office

I'm sitting at the trian station waiting for the dart home. It's been a long
day in the office. I arrived at just before 10am.

Things that happened today: I nearly fainted on the train coming into the
office. That cost me 1/2 an hour waiting for missing trains.

I got 2.6.3 working on my laptop. It just simply refused to boot. I forgot
to translate the modules.conf file into the modprobe.conf file. Aargh!

I've been getting it working under vmware too, I needed to build the vmhgfs
module. Rewrote the Makefile to be a 2.6 modules makefile. One fix in the
driver.c file (add a #define for NODEV) and it built and installed fine.

The only problem is that getting the interface status i.e. link up/down isn't
working so the ifup script wasn't assigning them IP addresses. A couple of
fixes to that (remove the link test) and it all worked perfectly. I should
probably fix the link test to work correctly, that way I can take the laptop
on the road again.

That's just about all the work related stuff I'm allowed to talk about the
rest is hush hush.

shells

dear god, I can't believe I ever managed to live without the z shell. It
is just screams 'feeping creature'. The filename completion is simply scary
the globbing is something from god.

Moo!

Build bugs

For some reason the building of the overlay zones on rail wasn't working.

Turns out that the code was missing. This looks like a CVS dodginess thing
in relation to the date/times.

Fixed. Now on to the scrolling problem.

I still can't reproduce it dadblast it.

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