Insufficiently Random

Recently Johannes Schindelin and I participated in a podcast about Git’s involvement in Google Summer of Code. You can listen to the podcast on the Google open source blog.

In honor of us moving from New York to California I have also moved the server that hosts spearce.org.  If you are reading this blog post, welcome to my new home away from home on the web.

If you aren’t reading this blog post, you may need to reconsider how you reached this location, since you can’t see it.

I got curious about the growth rate for the git.git and linux-2.6.git repositories, so I wrote git-statplot to dump out object counts and sizes by earliest date entered. Plotting these with Gnuplot gave me some interesting results:

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There must be a bug somewhere in MythTV’s show deletion logic.

I hate to admit it but I find Stargate Atlantis to be entertaining, so I record the new episode every Friday night. Because I may not be able to get around to watching the show rigtht away I asked MythTV retain two copies of the show, deleting the oldest.

So right now my MythTV box has the episodes from Aug 25, Sept 18, Sept 16. But not last night’s episode, Sept 22. First off, why do I have 3 episodes when I asked for 2? And secondly, why do I have an old episode but not the most recent?!?

Looking at the oldrecorded table in MySQL it shows that the Sept 22nd episode was in fact recorded. But it must have been deleted just a few minutes after it finished recording.

I have never seen a discussion on sandwich making which was as worth reading as this one. Nicely done.