Time to relax...

...you would not believe how long it takes to compile CenterICQ 4.21.0 on a 70 MhZ SparcStation 5. Hooray for stopping and smelling the roses until fall arrives.

And hooray for doing something mildly useful with ancient hardware.

[Update, 1 day later]

straxus@OpenStraxuSD [/home/straxus]# which centericq
/usr/local/bin/centericq
straxus@OpenStraxuSD [/home/straxus]# centericq       
Segmentation fault (core dumped) 
straxus@OpenStraxuSD [/home/straxus]#

Absolutely fantastic - I'm so glad I spent ~20 hours of CPU time on that, as well as clearing enough stuff off of the /usr partition that the compile was barely able to finish (the intermediate objects took up over 200 meg - big deal on a 400 meg partition!).

Esc

...from Toronto for another week, and I'm outbound to San Francisco until Saturday Mar. 11th. I'm trading coolish weather for warm but rain (and a boatload of work between tomorrow morning and Friday evening).

Checklist for San Francisco:

• Laptop (customer's company)


• Laptop (my company)


• Palm Tungsten E2


• iPod (4th gen, 20 gig)


• 5 days of nice clothing


• 1 day of relaxed, flying clothing


• Toiletries


• 4 cases of Coca Cola - one of the people at the customer's office is an expatriate Canadian, and he discovered that US coke tastes like pipe cleaner compared to Canadian stuff because the US uses 'high-fructose corn syrup' as their primary sugar source and Canada uses 'Glucose-Fructose' (i.e. table sugar)

Oh, if you ever want to get a lot of funny looks from airport security screeners and waste a few minutes, put two laptops through - they love that.