JeffJournal

Tied up some loose ends today:

• Checked into the error that Arun reported that he was getting with parallel bladeenc; couldn't reproduce it. Sent him the latest copy to try. Turned out to be an embarrassing use of a variable before it was initialized in LAM's mpirun. Additionally, we accrued command line arguments into a fixed-length string that could be overflowed (oh for STL strings...). Doh!

• Replied to mp3check author dude (see previous entry).

• Finally fixed the "delete" button in the MPI listing stuff; I think it was malfunctioning before and deleting all the data in the database. Oops!

• Replied to Bill George at NIST about some pending IMPI errata w.r.t. IMPI_H_ACKMARK and IMPI_H_HIWATER --
  the IMPI doc doesn't clearly state how these values should be arbitrated. Bill and I are discussing what the mechanism should be. Actually, the mechanism is clean: min(a, b). The discussion is between where the value should be applied universally to all hosts or on a host-pairwise basis. I'm [currently :-)] in favor of the latter. We'll see how it works out.

• Installed GNU mailman 2.0b5 on mail.lsc today. Apparently the previous versions had some security problems. Oops. I tried to setenv CFLAGS to -fast, 'cause there is a small C portion in mailman (most of it is in python), but it still used just "-O". I suspect non-careful use of AC_PROG_CC in its configure.in script (curses, autoconf foiled again!!).

• Got minime in a compilable state again. Working on a primitive html tag checker so that I won't leave unterminated tags again. It should bitch if you leave tags unterminated when you finish typing the rant, and automatically closes them if you "submit" without fixing them. Simple stack-based thing (gotta love the STL!). I also added warning if it removes "LocalWords:" lines when you submit (not when you re-edit).

• Finally had a meeting with the Grad School people (they're nice and reasonable people once we all get in a room together and talk over the issues -- they even want to take us out to lunch for our troubles. Free food -- strong>woo hoo!!), and we worked out all the "final" kinks in the ndthesis style. Changed a few things in the sample thesis, and we should be good to go!

• Helped Jeremiah ship OOMPI 1.0.3. It's on Freshmeat now --
  everyone go check it out! Artificially inflate our stats! Whooo hoo!!
  

Still to do:

1. Finish dissertation. Graduate. Earn lots of money. Take over the world (the DomeCam's still down, after all).
   

Must go join Brian and Pete for wings, beer, and a last "hang out" night at Chuck's old place.

I say, deliver me from Swedish furniture!