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So, went to the bank. Had them look at the "issue". They took some time looking at it without telling me anything. Then they told me it was a human error and they would put back the money. I asked them to do it right away and show me, which they did. Then I realized they put back the money, but not the handling fee for the issuing of the cheque. So I asked them to give me that back too. The teller seemed to think that was a weird request, so I explained to him I didn't feel I should pay commission on a transaction I hadn't requested. He sort of understood. The fee was 8 euros, not much but not small either.

After that I noticed I had paid interests on going under 0 because of this operation. So I asked to get that back as well. This was 20 euro. He frowned again, and again I had to convince him. Sigh.

Anyway, afterwards I checked, and they gave me these three amounts back. Then they repeated the operations, so I was rich for a short while. And then they removed the surplus again. Banks ...

So, went to the bank. Had them look at the "issue". They took some time looking at it without telling me anything. Then they told me it was a human...

Today was an unexpected day off. So I decided to build GNOME 2.9 at home, looking at some stuff I wanted to fix. I also wanted to set up ccache and distcc because I have a 2GHz server and a 3GHz desktop, as well as my laptop, so it'd make sense.

I was betting on the time spent getting distcc working offsetting the time lost not starting jhbuild directly. I'm not sure if that's how it turned out though :)

Going through the build, I noticed/fixed a few things:

• howl's build is crap. with enable-static it fails to build, trying to link in some .o files it should build but doesn't. Workaround is to add an argument for it.
• evolution-data-server crapped out at compile time because of missing nspr.h. I went through the incredibly dense configure.in until I realized the actual problem, fixing a few other things in the process. Patch submitted.
• after having the distcc setup working, I noticed jhbuild was not honoring my makeargs. Spent a few minutes figuring out the problem in jhbuild. jhbuild is very little commented and has no debugging. I'm sure jamesh knows it well enough to not need either, but a hapless hacker like me sure wouldn't mind having them. Each time I think I need to fix something in jhbuild I get scared.
• libgnomecups uses cups-config without actually checking if that binary exists, then failing through the compile. yuck. fixed.

Almost building nautilus, a few more left.

While doing these builds my CPU is rising to about 86C. People tell me that's not good. So I should probably stop the machine and with my feeble hardware skillz try and remedy the problem.

Today was an unexpected day off. So I decided to build GNOME 2.9 at home, looking at some stuff I wanted to fix. I also wanted to set up ccache...

I am ashamed. I haven't had a full 2.9 GNOME build done yet. I was looking at some gnome-applets build stuff today since it seemed it was about to get some fixes commited that were dubious. Which is when I noticed I don't even have a full 2.9. Sigh.

So, time to clean out the laptop. Every six months I clean out my jhbuild by doing this:

for a in *; do if test -d $a/CVS; then echo $a; cd $a; cvs diff > ../$a.diff; cd ..; fi; done

Which gives me a diff-per-module to see if I have any uncommited stuff left lying around.
After that, I do

 find . -size 0 -exec rm {} \;

to remove all zero-size patches.

I know this is boring information; I'm putting it here in the hopes that in six months' time, I will just cut and paste these lines from here instead of recreating them from memory and screwing up in a myriad of ways.

After that I can start removing directories... And after that I have space for a new 2.9 build.

I am ashamed. I haven't had a full 2.9 GNOME build done yet. I was looking at some gnome-applets build stuff today since it seemed it was about to get...

We released the source code to the applet yesterday. Some people seemed to be very anxious to look at it :) The build is still a bit iffy (it's my first ant build file, I'm sure there's a lot to be improved there) but the applet seems to work well. I restarted the office demo stream because audio and video had gotten about 80 seconds out of sync after a week of running... Need to fix that next week.

We released the source code to the applet yesterday. Some people seemed to be very anxious to look at it :) The build is still a bit iffy (it's my...

Boarding was fun. Not that much snow yet, and some slopes were incredibly icy. Some girl managed to fall, hitting her own face with the ski she was losing. And then, Kristien, who had fallen as well, skidded straight into the wailing girl. Luckily it wasn't too hard.

While it was fun, it was just a little bit of practice. Not enough challenge on the slopes and no fresh snow. I really need to plan at least a week of holiday and I need to do it soon...

Boarding was fun. Not that much snow yet, and some slopes were incredibly icy. Some girl managed to fall, hitting her own face with the ski she was losing. And...