IRC log for #brlcad on 20071106

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00:56.02 IriX64 heheh change .a to .dll.a in tclm4 and it finds x now :)
01:01.06 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/desktop.png
01:01.10 IriX64 :)
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02:43.59 yukonbob louipc: /me didn't know you were a Torontonian...
02:44.44 louipc yukonbob: are you?
02:45.09 yukonbob I was -- and just got back from two weeks in TO -- was in Roncesvales...
02:47.46 louipc cool, where are you now?
02:47.55 yukonbob Whitehorse, YT.
02:48.01 louipc mofo!
02:48.07 louipc what's up there?
02:48.11 yukonbob snow?
02:48.25 louipc what brings a person there other than caribou?
02:48.41 yukonbob my gf is a cultural anthropology grad student, doing her research...
02:49.04 louipc ah
02:49.13 yukonbob where abouts in TO are you?
02:49.32 louipc watch out for invading russians, I might go up and help some time
02:49.45 louipc yukonbob: Mississauga, heheh
02:50.35 yukonbob ah -- re: russians -- are you in military?
02:51.23 louipc nope
03:13.00 ``Erik damn canucks
03:17.41 louipc ``Erik: too late
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14:19.08 ``Erik *yawn*.
17:25.20 ``Erik blargh
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18:30.19 ``Erik heh, nice, EDOOFUS :)
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18:32.00 ``Erik ./errno.h:#define EDOOFUS 88 /* Programming error */
18:32.12 ``Erik and people say the fbsd community isn't very friendly :D
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18:52.30 brlcad http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-May/000791.html
18:53.29 brlcad opportunity doesn't get much better than that!
18:54.37 Z80-Boy brlcad: I have just removed my e-mail
18:54.55 brlcad ?
18:55.02 Z80-Boy Cause I had to check the spams that got through the filter
18:55.18 Z80-Boy And when I was absent for couple of days, my friend's e-mail server where it was hosted got overloade
18:55.56 Z80-Boy wohoo, freedom!
18:56.29 Z80-Boy brlcad: so I won't get any bugreport notifications regarding brl-cad
18:56.38 brlcad ah, okay
18:57.44 Z80-Boy Now I'll try to use IRC instead
18:58.38 brlcad would be cool if cia could relay sf.net tracker changes
18:59.58 Z80-Boy Once I had a folder with 70,000 spams taking 650MB
19:00.08 brlcad wouldn't be too tricky to set up a hierarchical file-based tracker dump with a cron job that committed updates to svn
19:00.31 Z80-Boy and the friend who hosted my e-mail already killed my IMAP connection several times when I was downloading a much smaller chunk of e-mails, just from 1 week of absence
19:00.57 Z80-Boy I'll change the Ronja pages to say that people should ask for support on IRC
19:02.57 MinuteElectron Gmail == No SPAM
19:03.19 Z80-Boy I don't want to submit my private communication to Google
19:03.27 Z80-Boy MinuteElectron: do they have a good spam filtering system?
19:03.37 MinuteElectron hell yes
19:04.07 MinuteElectron I have recieved about two pieces of spam on my gmail account ever, everything else goes to the spam bin which I check occasionally.
19:04.23 Z80-Boy I don't want to need to check any spam bin
19:04.43 MinuteElectron well, i've never had any real e-mail go to the spam bin
19:04.50 MinuteElectron I'm just paranoid
19:04.58 Z80-Boy brlcad: I have created two new models after the arbn issue was fixed, which was preventing them from being finished correctly
19:05.29 Z80-Boy http://ronja.twibright.com/3d/plazmatron_s0.png
19:05.32 ``Erik no spam, and still 98% of legitimate message!
19:05.33 ``Erik s
19:06.07 ``Erik spamassassin with a little training is solid, and you can retain the spam folder to look for false positives
19:06.18 Z80-Boy http://ronja.twibright.com/3d/ronja_new_2.png
19:06.28 ``Erik combined with mutts ability to sort by 'spamminess' (spam score)... :)
19:07.03 Z80-Boy ``Erik: I had spamassassin, but the Perl segfaulted in some database library
19:07.57 Z80-Boy brlcad: I can even post you .avi links if you want to see it as a rotating video
19:08.32 Z80-Boy brlcad: now it seems that the arbn has no problem with unnormalized vectors anymore - I intentionally kept unnormalized vectors there, so that possible problems with brl-cad would be discovered
19:09.02 Z80-Boy ``Erik: There is also an aspect called "Information overload" and "Information explosion", see Wikipedia on these terms
19:09.41 ``Erik erm, why would I need to look at wikipedia for those? O.o
19:09.55 Z80-Boy hehe
19:10.03 ``Erik and, erm, the comment about mutts spam score sorting is to alleviate that issue... :D
19:10.56 Z80-Boy Then the SMTP system got screwed by artificial, non-functional hurdles attempting to stop spammers
19:11.22 Z80-Boy like sender verify, banning open relays and blacklisting dynamic IP addresses
19:11.25 ``Erik heh, and I use my own mua for reading e-mail, to further reduce cognative load (breaks each mailing list into a seperate "mail box", etc)
19:11.38 Z80-Boy From these three, every single one annoyed me when I tried to set up my legitimate e-mail system.
19:12.08 Z80-Boy ``Erik: did you write it yourself?
19:12.12 ``Erik the mua? yeah
19:12.16 Z80-Boy In C?
19:12.23 ``Erik yup
19:12.50 ``Erik was also exploring some ideas at the time... it's got some neat ideas, but I'm not really proud of the execution *shrug*
19:15.53 Z80-Boy I replaced spamassassin by bogofilter which is much faster and hasn't segfaulted, but it allows more spam through and still needs to be feeded like some kind of Tamagochi
19:16.49 ``Erik add in that it can be trained to futher improve the result, ... *shrug* I'm happy for now
19:17.10 ``Erik though paul graham has an article about simplified spam detection
19:17.49 ``Erik 'cept I'd want to push that idea further, and have automatic mailbox selection, and an mua where if you drag a mail from one folder to another, it 'learns' that in place
19:18.19 ``Erik of course, those were issues when I was on 30+ mailing lists, many fairly high traffic :D I don't do that anymore
19:21.25 Z80-Boy <PROTECTED>
19:21.34 Z80-Boy and especially openbsd misc has low S/N ration
19:21.41 Z80-Boy It's all "you're an idiot
19:21.46 ``Erik heh
19:21.49 Z80-Boy <PROTECTED>
19:21.53 ``Erik so they're moderated and only theo posts?
19:21.53 ``Erik ;D
19:22.03 Z80-Boy ;-)
19:22.13 ``Erik the fbsd ones were usually pretty civil
19:22.19 Z80-Boy Once they told me I am a troll and I just politely asked about some technical issues
19:22.27 ``Erik unlike the irc channels *cough* :D
19:24.37 Z80-Boy irch channels of the #OS.country type are surprisingly hostile
19:24.50 ``Erik established ones are
19:24.58 ``Erik very new os's seem very friendly *shrug*
19:25.41 ``Erik they're kinda still in the "holy shit, people are looking at this???" phase
19:51.05 brlcad mm. sun fire x4500 are even cheaper with massive diskage
19:52.05 brlcad Z80-Boy: those are really nice
19:52.17 brlcad really close to machining quality
20:01.29 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/NEWS:
20:01.31 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: Mr. Anderson fixed various non-normalized vector bugs with the ARBN primitive
20:01.33 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: that was causing all sorts of problems with rotations, shading, mirroring, and
20:01.35 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: more. the primitive was assuming the vectors were normalized, thus causing the
20:01.40 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: problems. Johns fixes take care of sf bugs 1800148 and 1800161 reported by
20:01.44 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: clock3/karel that specifically reported the mirroring and shading problems.
20:15.22 Z80-Boy brlcad: thanks
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20:28.38 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/libfb/if_wgl.c: We don't need to check for Windows in this file ;-).
20:38.11 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/libfb/if_remote.c: Fixed call to strncpy so as not to overwrite buf.
20:42.25 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/libfb/fbserv_obj.c: Check fbsl_fd before closing.
20:44.41 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/src/other/incrTcl/itcl/generic/itclInt.h: Looks like Sean's earlier fix got lost. Putting it back.
20:44.56 ``Erik hehehe as I'm about to clobber that file :D
20:47.00 ``Erik oh, just a config.h dealie
20:48.17 ``Erik er
20:48.30 ``Erik s/why we/if we should/
20:52.55 brlcad now that it's working for tcl/tk, yeah I'd think so
20:53.11 brlcad the less to tweak/maintain in other, the better
20:53.31 ``Erik assuming people can stomach the configure time :)
20:53.57 brlcad our default cacheing is at least enabled by default :)
20:54.21 brlcad we could recover that time by doing better caching of our own compilation tests
20:54.38 brlcad breaking out each functionality test into an m4 with cache support would be good
20:55.05 ``Erik there's still a fair bit that wouldn't be covered by caching, I think... the same grunt from a 'trivial' autoconf project, plus all those cache checks
20:55.12 brlcad either way, I dont' care if they think it's long :)
20:55.47 brlcad the time is recovered by not maintaining their build
20:55.57 brlcad the bigger question is whether their autocruft is up to snuff
20:56.20 brlcad tcl's is *barely* usable now ..
20:56.56 brlcad wasn't pre 8.4.6 or therebouts
21:01.54 ``Erik blehhhhhhhhhh, change to configure.ac
21:01.59 ``Erik *grouse*
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21:35.58 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/src/other/tcl/ (698 files in 28 dirs): tcl 8.5a6->8.5b1
21:39.22 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/src/other/tk/ (716 files in 20 dirs): tk 8.5a6->8.5b1
21:41.51 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/src/other/incrTcl/itcl/generic/ (17 files): update a good bit out of itcl development version, to cope with changes in tcl85b1
21:43.34 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/src/other/incrTcl/itk/ (12 files in 2 dirs): update a good bit out of itk development version, to keep in sync with itcl
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21:44.16 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/configure.ac: note that we use (and search for) itcl/itk 3.4
22:17.46 ``Erik hum, mged seems to behave, rt works fine, ... O.o
22:18.17 ``Erik AAH, I'm blind#!~
22:19.35 ``Erik archer seems to come up, not sure what I'm looking at, though
22:20.06 brlcad if you run into funky cursors with remote-to-mac, that's a X11 bug on OS X afaik
22:20.17 ``Erik no, cursers looked all good
22:20.27 ``Erik I'm running it on a fbsd opteron
22:20.28 brlcad yeah, I got archer all working a couple months ago -- turn on "advanced" mode for a lil more familiarity
22:21.09 ``Erik well, it's dark in my office, my screens are all black... I ran it, and all three instantly turned white
22:21.12 ``Erik I'm done with that program.
22:22.53 ``Erik and a leenewx
22:23.58 ``Erik ya know, 85b1 has some dtrace stuff in it O.o
22:31.01 ``Erik huh
22:31.12 ``Erik the cursor issue showed up from linux, not bsd...
22:31.46 brlcad it's a byte ordering issue, depends on endian
22:31.57 ``Erik same arch
22:32.06 brlcad then it's a tcl issue
22:32.17 ``Erik both using internally build tcl 85b1
22:32.20 brlcad the issue I'm thinking of is a byte order endian problem
22:32.52 brlcad and mac x11 specific)
22:33.21 ``Erik um, same source tree, same arch, both displaying to the same mac x86 workstation
22:35.33 ``Erik um, the last of the linux opterons in /usr/tmp/brlcad vs the opteron fbsd in /usr/tmp/<myusername>/brlcadbuild
22:35.38 ``Erik if you want to compare and contrast
22:35.52 ``Erik the 'massive icon with a fuzzy yellow look'?
22:37.28 brlcad yeah
22:37.48 brlcad maybe still the same issue, but related to 64-bit client to 32-bit server
22:38.12 brlcad mac is 32-bit even on the new boxen
22:38.51 brlcad which is causing me grief at the moment for making one universal mac build ..
22:39.18 ``Erik mged: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
22:39.19 ``Erik bin/mged: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
22:39.58 ``Erik oh, and my bad, on the fbsd, it's not /usr/tmp/blah/brlcadbuild, it's /usr/brlcad/HEAD
22:40.00 brlcad yup
22:40.32 ``Erik ok
22:40.48 ``Erik just a datapoint, bsd does not exhibit the issue, linux does... for me
22:41.27 brlcad yeah, makes sense
22:41.43 brlcad linux x11 client sends the cursor back as an image instead of a bitmap iirc
22:41.58 brlcad there was a mac hint write-up on this somewhere
22:42.01 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/NEWS: mention version bumps on contrib stuff
22:42.19 ``Erik hum, I thought both did what Xorg or X11R6 told 'em to, fbsd doesn't twiddle bits like openbsd does
22:42.25 brlcad http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060316124704289
22:42.41 ``Erik unless redhat is getting their fingers where they don't belong (yet again)
22:43.03 ``Erik oohhh, 'blue facet', huh
22:43.26 brlcad either way, the 'bug' is in the X11 apple's using or in something tcl 8.5's doing since that's when it starts
22:44.45 ``Erik hum, the 'dedication' pic comes up fine
22:45.09 ``Erik as do the logos on the archer splash screen, from both boxen
22:45.14 ``Erik *shrug*
22:45.27 ``Erik something for another day :D
22:45.37 ``Erik <-- starts packing up to go grocery shopping
22:46.55 brlcad yeah, given the dates of that report, I'm betting tcl 8.5 has the same bug where it's packing its own cursor for some widgets
23:59.00 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/ (src/tclscripts/helplib.tcl src/librt/wdb_obj.c NEWS):
23:59.02 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: the mged 'tol' command now accepts multiple tolerance arguments so that users
23:59.04 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: can set multiple tolerances with just one command invocation. this change makes
23:59.06 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: the tol command interatively accept pairs of tolerance types with the
23:59.08 CIA-27 BRL-CAD: corresponding value.

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