Katrina Elizabeth Neumann
8lbs 8oz
March 29, 2006 @ 13:03
Lisa and Katrina are doing very well. Emily is excited, but still adjusting to having a little sister.
You catch the first sets of pictures in our gallery:
http://neumannhaus.com/photos/
In case you are one of the thousands of people who are on my mom's email list. And, in case you want to see the pictures of the manufactured home that are allegedly on my blog. Well, look no further than my photo gallery.
I'm a big Gentoo Linux fan, but over the years, I've gotten irritated about how much time I have to spend compiling during the installation process--and I'm not not talking about a stage1 install either. Theoretically, I could use GRP to get going a little faster, but I've never had much success with it and I'm not willing to stick with its list of USE flags and slower release cycle.
What I want is a Gentoo installation tarball that is already up-to-date, includes a *working*, generic kernel, and takes almost no-time to install. So, I setup a build machine at my house to do this very thing. You can now find my Gentoo snapshots at:
http://neumannhaus.com/gentoo/snapshots/
On a side note, another interesting solution that I'm not presently exploring is the based Gentoo variant Kororaa. Maybe one day I'll have time to actually install it and give it a go.
What is it with 40? It seems so complete. There were those 40 days and nights on the ark. The 40 day fast in the wilderness. 40 days of lent. 40 of anything seems significant, even monumental. So, being awake for 40 hours with no sleep seems outrageous. After all, it is a personal best.
Unfortunately this is an all-nighter that went bad--it be came an all-dayer followed by a late-nighter. I've been working like an animal on my submission for VL/HCC '06. That's right, a special kind of animal that can think and write and compile LaTeX: a "grad student." (Well...compile LaTeX for sure...) But let me tell you, if writing the paper hadn't been so interesting, I would have passed out by now.
I better get to bed before it hits 41. That doesn't seem nearly as exciting.
I've been doing quite a bit of development in Eclipse lately. Eclipse is a decent IDE, but one of my pet peeves is how long it takes to load. I just sits there loading and loading and loading. Now, I have a reasonably fast computer, so that's not the problem. Today, I noticed all the disk activity. I got curious about how much stuff Eclipse was loading into memory. Then I saw it! A huge memory footprint. No wonder it takes forever to load. How fast can any laptop hard drive copy 270 MB into memory.
