Tuesday I came back to
work. We have this week to fix bugs for 11.5.10 Cumulative Update 1.
First up is a P1 bug - the softphone buttons are not lighting up.
Confirm the bug, look up the recent code changes, track it down to one
file. Simon made some changes and checked it in probably just before he
left and took for Christmas. He made a slight mistake which wasn't too
hard to fix. The hard part was testing it since I'm not familiar with
the new environments.
Then I had eight multi-site bugs. After looking at the logs, two were
environment issues and the rest I couldn't reproduce. Multi-site is one
of those things that requires a lot of configuration and is quite
fragile if anything is configured wrong. In this case it was a switch
configuration which had somehow had become unset.
Wednesday Simon was back and I worked on a couple of customer TARs. For
some reason customers are unwilling to upload log files that are
hundreds of megabytes. I have no idea why because it's hard to diagnose
a problem when the customer is only uploading what they think is enough
to show the problem. My job then becomes a lot of guesswork and we
occasionally misdianose or have to ask for more logs.
Today I wasn't really in the mood to work. Simon wants me to fix a
subtle bug in my Nortel adapter code. I thought about it for a couple
of hours and I believe I have most of the holes plugged. But I'm going
to mull it over this weekend. I don't like changing old code at the
spur of the moment because I don't remember why I did things the way I
did. And sometimes I think of a better solution.
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So I came home early to
watch the Holiday Bowl. #4 Cal vs #21 Texas Tech. Man, Cal looked awful
losing like 44 to 28. There was point there in the first quarter when
Cal was controlling the game. They were running the ball offensively
and stymieing the Texas Tech offense. But then they stopped moving the
ball and Texas Tech started moving the ball in the air and it was more
or less downhill from there.
It's been raining fairly hard, stormy even, since about Sunday. The
rain is nice though I guess too much rain is bad. And this means more
snow for skiers though I'm not one myself. What it does mean is that I
haven't had the chance to photograph some items I bought because there
is no sunlight in the morning. It has to be just right as it goes
through the window and hits the floor of my room then I can put items
on the floor and take pictures.
I've been converting some tapes to MPEG using my EyeTV. The current
version of the EyeTV software is very good. Some of the tapes are quite
bad and you get all this flicker and distortion. EyeTV used to really
hate it and would often freeze or stop if the picture was really bad
for more than a few seconds. But now although it has trouble recording
problem sections at least it's not dying on me.
I just received my car insurance bill. $1276 for next year which is the
same as this year. I was expecting it to go up since I did do a slight
bit of damage to a car last January. This is a pleasant surprise and
here I was all set to start looking for a new car insurance company. I
guess I'll stick with Travelers.
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