Crazy day getting ready for the long July 4th weekend. There was more testing on ptolemy with more depressing results (why isn't it picking up the hot spare when I pulled a drive out from an active array?!). I actually yanked the whole server out of the closet (which required me temporarily shutting down one of the download servers which was physically in the way - but nobody seemed to notice much). We opened it up and found the RAID is indeed on cards and not the motherboard, which is good as this means if we can't get this to ultimately work we can get some 3ware cards (or some such) instead.

Meanwhile, with ptolemy pretty much gone we've been having mounting problems with servers still requesting its disks. No matter how hard you try there's always some dependencies that hide until too late. So it's been a morning full of killing automounter processes, cleaning up stale mounts, deleting bogus trigger files, restarting services, etc. This was mostly hidden from the public - except for several status pages being out of whack. Actually the assimilators all froze but this was hidden behind the stale server status page. Now the queue is pretty large, but it should drain out just fine.

Eric and Jeff are still getting to the bottom of the database/esql interface woes, doing some extreme programming over by Jeff's desk. Converting lists with cryptic, undocumented size limits to blobs. One of the last major hurdles for the first rev of the nitpicker. Then it's doing all the scoring algorithms, which we'll discuss next week.

- Matt

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Eric and Jeff are still getting to the bottom of the database/esql interface woes, doing some extreme programming over by Jeff's desk. Converting lists with cryptic, undocumented size limits to blobs. One of the last major hurdles for the first rev of the nitpicker. Then it's doing all the scoring algorithms, which we'll discuss next week.

- Matt

Yes, next week will be here soon enough. Have a happy Fourth!

Things seem to be getting pretty exciting. I hope this means great news for everyone involved, and perhaps a return of former users who felt/feel there's not enough feedback from the project.

Sounds like an - Aaaarh, Day. Thank goodness for the long week end

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues