What happened to December?
Posted by Ceri Davies Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:16:00 GMT
First things first, we have a privacy policy now. Google Analytics insists that you have one in order to use the service, and since it is the lowest maintenance tool for creating inane and useless statistics, I am using it.
I managed to park in front of my house, whereupon someone drove a skip truck into my car (and yes, my number plate says GNU on it — call it coincidence). My insurer, Sainsbury’s, have been pretty good.
After discussion on hackers@, the crunchgen patch got committed. On a related note, had some discussion with Adrian and Philip Paeps about pivot_root(), which is a system call which switches the root mountpoint with another mountpoint. Seems that what we want is rather different to the Linux syscall of the same name. Adrian’s idea was to reuse the devfs_fixup() code, but I’m under the impression that this gets away with murder by virtue of there being no userland processes running while it is doing the business. More thought required…
I received a nice PowerBook from work, thanks. I still need a new i386 laptop, but my budget isn’t going to stretch to one this year unless Yonah does crazy things to prices.
In that vein, I finally caught up with this century and got a USB stick. Can maybe get to work on that GELI/kenv stuff now.
Christmas was good, although I haven’t been nearly drunk enough due to a cold that I just cannot get rid of. Six days left before we have to go back to work though ;-)
