last few days

Saturday was a strange day. I gave up trying to get to sleep the night before, at around 5 am, and had one of my rare but often very productive early morning hacking sessions, in which I tore apart debian-edu's task packages and made it use tasksel. Around 10 am I was finally feeling tired, so I slept until about 3, and then went out and did as much physical activity as I could to reset my close so it wouldn't happen the next night. Swimming at the lake was also refreshing. For a wonder, it worked. Yesterday I went out to the farm for a day and night.

Today was the end of the d-i string freeze, so dozens of uploads, and I bumped most version numbers in it to 1.0. More success reports on s390, so we will be able to include that in the next release, and we're finally done porting to all the sarge architectures. Wow. The release has slipped a couple of days, but it largely on track. Steve posted general freeze plans for Debian (I'm too lazy to link), and d-i's release should fit into that perfectly.

Today was also network redo day here at my house, since all the peices finally arrived. I'm very happy to be back to having a Debian box connected directly to the internet and not gated through a mildly broken appliance anymore. I deployed my 12 dbm omni, and covered the whole neighborhood and several acres of the park behind it with open wifi goodness. I managed to stuff the wired network back into two rooms (it had expanded accross three rooms and 2 floors, and nasty wires were everywhere). Now I have a genuine 32 mb system to test d-i "lowmem" installs on too. The only casulty is netbooting the installer on my test laptop downstairs, since there is no wired network there. I tried to set up the proprietary AP to do wireless bridging via WDS, but though my server saw the link, I never got the AP to talk to it. Anyway, the network is much better than before.

I'm glad that the Shuttleworth group / SSDS / Warthogs / no-name-yet guys finally have an official name. Even if it was chosen by committee. ;-)