Thursday, August 25, 2005
Must … resist … latest meme … Failed.
Hmm, nice.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Remote restore fixed. Full planned functionality reached.All that I planned to do for Simple Backup is done as of version 0.7.Now I only need to wait for the evaluation from my mentors at Ubuntu and to fix all bugs they and all other users find
I also did a bit of refactoring in this [...]
A World of Warcraft World
Kind of a scary list of things that will, according to the author, happen in the future of global MMORPGs. I have read many books on the subject and I find that the author should propably read “False Mirrors” by Sergej Lukjanenko. [...]
NerdTests.com Fun Tests – Computer Geek / Nerd Quiz: “ ” Didn’t expect to score that high after aswering some of the questions in thuthful and not geeky way, but …
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Ok, now the 0.5 release of my Simple Backup suite can now actually restore something from your backups! (both command-line and Gnome interfaces) It now even does automatic backups (and not just claims that it does). It even doesn’t store empty folders in the backup. Oh and some usability fixes are also thrown in for [...]
Between two hacking sessions I also did a yoga session today. I think that I realized, why such simple actions take such great effort when you are doing proper yoga. I think that the point is that you twist/bend/compress you body into an inconvenient position and then the real exercise starts: 1. maintaining a position [...]
This week was a productive for me, but I did run into some unexpectedtechnical difficulities and thus had to work throught the weekend tocatch up.
I just did the 0.3 release on freashmeat and sourceforge.
Progress checklist:* backend daemon – ok* GUI configurator – ok* commandline restore – 50% (need to write a directory extractionfunction that is [...]
I am behind my planned schedule by allmost two days, mostly because tarfile module for Python is … not too complete, for example you can only extract files one by one It looks like I will have to implement extraction of directories myself. Of course I will send it to the tarfile upstream authors, [...]
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Still writing a restore tool Last two hours were spent debugging an interesting problem with TreeView in PyGTK. It was too slow to parse and add all files from a backup snapshot to the tree view at once (not to mention that it took 35 Mb of RAM ), so I decided to [...]
