[Edit: Removed accusation of non UK hosting – thank you to Richard Mortimer & Philipp Edelmann for pointing out I had incorrectly looked up the domain “householdresponce.com” in place of “householdresponse.com”. Learn to spell…] I live in England, the government keeps an Electoral Roll, a list of people registered to vote. This list needs to […]
August 3, 2019
andy
I write this on Monday whilst sat in the airport in São Paulo awaiting my onward flight back to the UK and the fun of the change of personnel in Downing street that has been something I have fortunately been able to ignore whilst at DebConf. [Edit: and finishing writing the Saturday after getting home […]
July 8, 2019
andy
With the release of Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” completing in the small hours of yesterday morning (0200hrs UTC or thereabouts) most of the ‘release parties’ had already been and gone…. Not so for the Cambridge contingent who had scheduled a get together for the Sunday [0], knowing that various attendees would have been working on […]
July 7, 2019
andy
I spent all day smoke testing the install images for yesterday’s (this mornings – gee just after midnight local so we still had 11 hours to spare) Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 “Buster” release. This year we had our “Biglyest test matrix ever”[0], 111 tests were completed at the point the release images were signed and the […]
March 16, 2019
andy
This post may feel like an advert – to an extent it is. I won’t plug events very often; however as a charity event in aid of prostate cancer and I genuinely think it will be great fun for anybody able to take part, so hence the unashamed plug. The Race for Science will happen […]
March 10, 2019
andy
I am slowly making progress. I am quite pleased with myself for slowly moving beyond triage, test, verify to now beginning to understand what is going on with some bugs and being able to suggest fixes :-) That said my C++ foo is poor and add in QT as well and #917711 is beyond me. […]
March 9, 2019
andy
I didn’t get a huge amount done today – A bit of email config for Andy followed by many installation tests to reproduce #911036, then to test and confirm the patch has fixed it. I can’t read a word of Japanese but thankfully Hideki provided the appropriate runes I needed to ‘match’ so I was […]
February 11, 2019
andy
I can save £0.40 per device if I move from the ATMEGA328P to an ATMEGA328PB, given that I am expecting to use around 4000 of these microcontrollers a year this looks like a no brainer decision to me… The ATMEGA328P has been around for a few years now and I did check that the device […]
February 1, 2019
andy
Despite the fact that I have nothing to really show for a day spent at the sprint I was busy all day. I spent until most of my day with documentation, really useful to do but somehow I don’t feel that I have been productive. In addition I did bit of tinkering here, clean […]
January 31, 2019
andy
Today has mostly been spent in conversation. Jonathan has started to scratch an itch that I share, we need a better tally light solution. When we were using DV switch we had a simple tally light system using (iirc DTR on a) serial port to turn on or off an LED. This was fine because […]