Up to Main Index Up to Journal for April, 2014 JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 10TH APRIL, 2014 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Plodding on... DATE: Thu 10 Apr 21:18:46 BST 2014 UPDATED: Originally I said the keyboard had scissor switches. I was actually thinking of another compact keyboard. The one here is actually rubber domes. Oh wow! What a busy week it has been. Started off with email issues at work. Continued with the OpenSSL heartbleed[1][2] vulnerability. Wednesday finished with more email issues. During all of this *ALL* of our customers seem to have woken up and wanted work doing - a good thing but please not everybody all at once! ;) After talking about keyboards and the mighty IBM Model M last time I find myself using a cheap, compact, rubber dome, USB keyboard. Why? My main desktop is currently 'otherwise engaged' displaying monitoring for a number of systems. Therefore I'm using a Raspberry Pi, SSH and GNU screen to connect to my main desktop and write this post :) Unfortunately my Happy Hacking keyboard only has a PS/2 connector - being a very early model - so I rummaged around and found a USB keyboard. It has a UK layout instead of a US one. After remapping some keys and judicious use of little squares of masking tape and a pen I was happier - although a few of the keys are still in weird places... Enough of the hardware, what about software? After the last few days I really wanted to get down to some coding on WolfMUD. I turned off all of the lights except for a small desk lamp, closed the web browser and other distractions, turned off the second monitor, made some fresh coffee and just focused on some programming. Well I say programming... if you remember from last time I was in the middle of splitting up and reorganising a large number of commits. I turns out that committing everything to a WIP (work in progress) branch in Git was not such a great idea. Still thing are going quite well and my mess is nearly sorted out. At least it is making me review and pick over my own code more. Several times I've wondered 'why did I do that!?'. Maybe I shouldn't be as picky trying to make sure after each commit the code is compilable and runnable... *sigh* -- Diddymus [1] For more information see: http://heartbleed.com [2] Wikipedia Heartbleed article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed Up to Main Index Up to Journal for April, 2014