August 9, 2019

[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 […]

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July 8, 2019

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 […]

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March 10, 2019

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. […]

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March 9, 2019

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 […]

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February 1, 2019

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 […]

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January 31, 2019

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 […]

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