I got up, it was really cold, I went and had a shower, got dressed, packed up stuff, including the bed, without crushing my fingers today.

I had a coffee, some toast, and then I walked to work.

I sat and worked, had a chat with the project manager about a data flow diagram he'd drawn up, to illustrate the new system I'm working on.

I setup my laptop, and kicked off the download I'd tried to do last night, the Xorg source code. For some reason cvsgrab wouldn't work for me. I fiddled around, wrote a new shell script to run it, and got it going, and left it to finish downloading.

I did some work for a while, I checked my email, and saw the result of the eBay auction, where I'd bought the access point ("Buy it now"), I wrote down the bank details the guy had sent me, to go and pay when I went out to lunch.

A little while later, the project manager came back, and he asked me about using the barcode readers, and they were talking about having to buy new ones, because the ones they've got, are ps/2, and all the machines now have USB keyboards.

I suggested that they get adapters, and plug the usb keyboards into the barcode reader, and into the ps/2 port.

The project manager said he didn't think the machines had ps/2 ports, I thought they did, and would have been terribly surprised if they didn't. We looked, and found they did.

I googled around, and found details of usb -> ps/2 adapters, apparently there's a difference between ones designed for mice, and keyboards. I couldn't find any locally, ie in .au, but a few in the US.

I said I'd have a look in the computer shops, when I went out for lunch.

I went back to work for a while, until I decided to find out about going to lunch.

I went upstairs, and I realised that I'd left the bank details I'd written down, downstairs.

I went back, and got them, and went back up. I went out with the senior DBA, we went for a walk down the road.

We went to the cheap shop near work, to look for a bike pump, they didn't have one, that we could find, so we gave up looking, and left.

We went to the next cheap shop, and looked around again, still couldn't find a bike pump. This place was selling batteries cheap, something like 24 AA batteries for $2. Can't go wrong. I bought these, and the senior DBA bought some clothes pegs.

We left there, kept heading to the shopping centre. I went to the ATM on the way, and got some cash.

We went into Kmart, and wandered around. They had a cheap outdoor table set on display, we had a look, the senior DBA wanted it, I didn't see the point, I wouldn't be sitting outside, it's too cold.

We went into the bik aisle, and I found a cheap bike pump, the senior DBA got a helmet.

We went over to the hardware section, and looked for some washers, so we could install the washing machine properly. The senior DBA didn't know what size he needed, and I hadn't looked at the tap/fitting, so I had no idea.

We headed to the front of Kmart, and the senior DBA went to walk out, and I suggested that he go through the checkout, and pay for the helmet and the pump first.

We went to a checkout, and the senior DBA realised that he was carrying 2 pumps, so dumped one.

While we waited to get served, some woman in front was buying an Xbox. The checkout woman was telling her to make sure that she kept the receipt, in case she had to get it serviced or fixed, because "Sony or whoever makes it" is a pain about it.

Uhh, a "Sony Xbox"?

We got served, the senior DBA paid for his stuff, and we left.

We went over to the bakery, and we got some pies, and then we went and sat outside to eat them.

The manager of royalty, and his wife came past, we chatted to them for a minute, they were on their way into Kmart. The senior DBA asked them to look at the table that was on display, and tell him what they thought of it.

We continued eating, and a little while later, the manager of royalty and his wife came out of kmart, and back to where we were sitting.

They told the senior DBA that they thought the table set looked cheap.

We started walking back, and I skewed off, to go to a computer shop to look for the usb/ps2 adapters.

I walked down, went into the computer shop, and asked the guy about adapters. He said he knew what I was talking about, but that he couldn't get them.

He showed me that they had some dumb Microsfot mouse that came with one, which I pointed out wouldn't work, because the keyboard ones are different internally, because a keyboard draws more power or something, and I really doubt Microsoft would give you an adapter that would do something more useful than they were marketing it for.

The mouse was like $70 too, and I'm not paying that. The guy suggested that I just buy ps/2 keyboards, yeah, that's one way out of it, and what I'd do, but I don't think that'll wash at work, with those stupid black acer machines, to have a beige keyboard.

I asked the guy about getting some in, and again he said that it's easier just to buy a keyboard, yeah, easier for you buddy.

I left there, and started wandering back towards work.

I noticed an electrical goods shop across the road, with a "closing down sale", I figured I'd have a look, so see if I could get some speakers, or a heater or something.

I went and had a look in there, wandered all around, nothing grabbed my attention, and there was nothing useful in there.

I left there, and headed back towards work again, I decided to look in the useless Dick Smith shop, to see if they had any adapters. I went in, looked around for them.

Someone asked me if I needed help, I told the guy what I was looking for. He told me they didn't have any.. they'd recently had to have all their cables tested/certified, and when they pulled the till machines out, the keyboard cords got stuffed, and so they'd used all the adapters, replacing the stuffed keyboards.

He also told me that Dick Smith were manufacturing their own, and so had discontinued ordering them, but their own brand wouldn't be stocked for a couple of months. Great.

I left there, and went across the road to the bank, and I deposited the money for the WRT54G into the seller's account.

I walked back to work, and when I got backed, I checked the email about paying for the access point.

The guy had asked that I send a copy of the receipt, and they'd ship it faster.

I went in, used the photocopier to scan the receipt, cropped the scan, since it scanned a full A4 page, with a tiny receipt slip on it, and then emailed the cropped scan to the guy.

I checked my email, and I'd received an email from a company doing a survey on behalf of Dell, about their support. They said they knew I'd contacted the help desk recently, and wanted me to let them know what I thought of the support I'd received.

I had a good time filling that in, as I think I already blogged about..

I did some work for a while, and then I checked the Xorg download I'd restarted this morning.

It had finished, I'd ended up downloading 890M of stuff, jebus. It was supposed to be about 300MB.

I bzippd it up, and it compressed down to 42M. Why did I have to spend a whole day downloading the crap? why couldn't they have bzipped it, and put that up, like every other project does, where you can download a daily cvs snapshot, over http even.

A little while later, the senior DBA called me, and told me he was going to leave. I suggested going across the road, to Harvey Norman, where the chick from the bar works, to look at speakers, and a heater or something.

He said he was going for a smoke first. I went out, and across to where the smokers smoke, and socialised for a little while.

After that, I walked across the road to Harvey Norman, the senior DBA was going to drive over there, it's across the road for Christ's sake!

I walked over there, and he drove, and I got there before him, a couple of minutes before him.

I went into the electrical section, into the speaker/home theatre section. I started looking at the speakers. Crappy selection, and very expensive.

The senior DBA came in, we had a quick look, and then we went to look at the heaters. I found an ok looking little fan heater, it'll do for the next few days, until we get the gas connected.

I tried to find a timer, so I could set it up to turn on an hour before I have to get up in the morning, so it's not so horrid to get out of bed, but they didn't have any.

We went to the checkout, I went to the counter with the woman from the bar working on it. She rang up the heater, a few dollars cheaper than the display had said. The senior DBA pipes up "that's not the price".

D'oh, be quiet, she put a discount on it, I told him, and then he realised. I paid for it, and then we left.

We went over to the car, and I chucked the heater in the car. I told the senior DBA that I would have been happy to carry it, but was just taking advantage of the fact that he'd driven over here.

We decided to look in the furniture shops. We looked in "Fantastic Furniture", and while looking through the furniture, for a chair, or a small lounge, or a coffee table, we came across a lounge, exactly the same style as the senior DBA's lounge.

We couldn't remember the fabric of it though, so we couldn't match that.

We left there, and went across to another furniture shop, wandered through there, it was a boring shop, most of the furniture was the same as in the last place.

I realised I needed to buy a pillow, because the 2 x $5 pillows I bought yesterday were useless, it was like sleeping on nothing.

We went into the bed place, and I went to have a look at the pillows. I ended up buying a $30 pillow, I thought it was a good tradeoff, it's supposed to be entirely synthetic, and treated with something to stop bugs etc getting it it.

I mainly bought it because it was thick, and didn't compress to nothing.

We left there, I chucked the pillow in the car, and then the senior DBA offered me a lift back to work, across the road.

I jumped in the back of the car, because the front passenger seat had the heater, and my pillow, and other stuff on it.

We drove across, back near work, and I jumped out, and went back into the building. I went back to my desk, and I tried to build Xorg that had finished downloading.

It had some problem, building the "hardcopy" module, of the documentation. I tried to stop it from doing that, by trashing the hardcopy directory, but that didn't work.

Crap. I realised that when I had downloaded the stuff out of CVS, I hadn't put the full path to download in there, which might explain why I had 890M of stuff, instead of 300M like it was supposed to be.

I started downloading it again, with the correct path specified.

While I did so, I read some documentation, and found a new page, with a daily cvs snapshot tarball linked to it. Argh, this is what I was looking for, before I wasted all that time getting cvsgrab going.

I killed off the cvsgrab, and downloaded the tarball. It ended up being about 42M, instead of 890M.

While that was downloading, I went to check kernel.org, and found that 2.6.11.11 was out, I'm on 2.6.11.10, old :-)

I pulled down the new source, since the changelog had references to changes for the 915 chipset (I think), I untarred that, and compiled it.

I didn't reboot yet, I used cvsgrab to pull out the latest Mesa and DRI code, since I couldn't find tarball snapshots for those. That took ages.

Before mesa was finished downloading, I got a call from the senior DBA, he wanted me to go to the supermarket on the way back to the house (fine, I'm already going there anyway), and get some washing powder, he's connected up the washing machine, without replacing the washers.

Mesa finished coming out of CVS, I packed up my laptop, grabbed it, and left work, walking back to the house. I went into the supermarket on the way, got the washing powder, some juice, and something for dinner.

I got back to the house, went in. The senior DBA paid me for the washing powder.

I sat and watched tv. I went and put my dinner in the oven.

The senior DBA told me that the woman from the mail room, and the guy from Orange who was looking after IT were coming around.

A little while later, they turned up, and then we went through the house, showing them around.

They asked if we wanted to go and get pizzas, I already had my dinner in the oven, so I was right. The senior DBA went with them, to go and get a pizza.

I went back to watching tv, and a while later, when I thought my dinner was cooked (because the timer on the oven can't be used, because the "up" button is stuck, and the microwave doesn't have a timer), I got it out of the oven.

I went and sat in front of the tv, and started eating my meal, to find it cold in the middle. I couldn't be bothered to put it back in the oven, because I would have had to put the plate in there or something.

I suppose I could have put it in the microwave, but I couldn't be bothered, I just ate it.

After that, I was still hungry, so I went and got the box of Tiny Teddies I'd bought at the supermarket yesterday, and started eating those.

The senior DBA got back about the, he'd got 2 pizzas. It was more than he wanted to eat, so he asked me to wat some, and I ended up eating almost a whole pizza.

After that, I sat on my laptop, and booted up the new kernel, which worked nicely. I compiled the cvs DRI code, installed it, that worked.

I built the Mesa stuff, this was tricky, it kept complaining about missing files. I found the files that were missing, they were in the Xorg source, so I just copied them from there, and it compiled.

I installed that, and then I kicked off the Xorg compilation. This took an absolute age, I don't know why, probably just because there's stacks of code to compile.

I installed this, and then started it. I was getting somewhere, now the i810 driver module was being used, this was the first time I could get this to go, rather than the vesa driver.

I wasn't too happy though, I still couldn't get the DRI code, and Direct Rendering, to work. glxinfo was telling me "Direct Rendering: no". Argh.

I sat and played the doom clone I'd installed for a while. The senior DBA went to bed, I played doom a bit longer, and then packed up my laptop, setup the sofa bed, and went to bed, and sleep.