After a day of recharging my car battery in my kitchen and pushing out builds I finally made it to NY at 3:00AM this morning, safe and sound. Chris Ball figured out the fontconfig issue we were having at around 10:30 last night. It turns out the clocks were set to something like December 1999 on the test LX board and it triggered a bug in fontconfig which makes it take up 100% of the CPU. This would be unlikely to happen on the assembled units coming from Quanta but at least we tracked it down and can file a bug against fontconfig. For once we are way ahead of our deadline (2 days) with a build we are comfortable with. I should be building a unicode fix and then I think we are good. After Tuesday I can start getting all the interesting bits in like TUBES!!! and video chat into the build. Watch out for some breakage in the builds as a lot of work has been going on in the git repos while we stabilize the LX. Hopefully we can get it out there, break some things and quickly stabilize again with some really awesome features.

Long Island User Group’s 100th Anniversary Meeting

I will be at LILUG tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8th to give a talk on developing for the OLPC Sugar environment. Though I didn’t plan to be at the 100th meeting, it just happened that was when I was free, it is pretty appropriate since I was once upon a time the Vice President of LILUG. I’m looking forward to it. If you are in the area feel free to drop by as it is open to everyone and includes free donuts and coffee. If you don’t come for me, come for the Krispy Kremes.

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