Tollef Fog Heen's blog

When out biking today, I thought of a few programs which would be immensely useful (and not so much):

• thought recorder. How often haven't you had a brilliant idea or something you must remember, but once you get somewhere you'll be able to write it down, you've forgotten?
• a good bandwidth shaper. I want to be able to: throttle one flow (one of my connections might be an rsync over ssh. That does not mean you should throttle all my other ssh connections as well) and throttle one "class" (say, throttle all HTTP traffic)

Of course, this list is missing at least five items, because I don't have the first item. And, as an added bonus, I've begun thinking in English instead of Norwegian for the last day or so. Annoying, but I guess it'll pass once I'm back at the university or something.

Not too much interesting happened today. I carried a lot of boxes from a cellar into an attic, a total of six floors or thereabout. A bit tired because of that. Got home afterwards, had a beer, ate some dinner, ate som ice-cream. Been hanging out on IRC the rest of the evening, setting up pybloxsom and fixing a little bit on the web pages. Looking forward to getting back to Trondheim, Oslo is a bit boring at the moment.

The problem with the 32bit glibc on 64bit AMD64 can be worked around fairly easily. The problem seems somehow connected to the optimized libraries placed in /lib/tls. The workaround is to just move /lib/tls out of the way, and hey presto: glibc works again. Of course, this is just a workaround, but it'll do for now. I'll give the lib64c6 some attention and upload it to Alioth once Alioth is back on line.

I have my $HOME in CVS, as joeyh has described on anoncvs-over-cvs and cvshomedir. I also check it out onto the web. Quite nice and convenient. Now I've also gotten the weblogging software set up; quite ok once Oskuro told me about the fact that the version in unstable is old and broken, and that there is a newer version in experimental.

I think I might want some better way of autolinking stuff I'm writing, but so far, I'm sticking with the plain frontend.

You just love it when you have a spare system that you might be able to use to build glibc and it just dies? Nice MP2600+, dual CPU and everything. splat. Dead. No reaction from ping, nothing. It sucks.