mwh, obi, others:

Note that filtering on List-ID or X-Mailing-List isn't 100% reliable. You probably want to filter on the SMTP reverse-path, which will usually end up in a 'Return-Path' header or the 'From ' line.

List-ID and X-Mailing-List get preserved if someone bounces (in pine parlance, aka 'redistributes') a mail to you.

Wow. Twice this past week, someone has asked me if I've lost weight, and commented that I looked a lot better. I have lost 20 pounds in the last couple of months, and I have lost about two inches in the waistline, but I didn't think that I my looks had actually changed that much, or that the weight loss was noticeable.

Whee!!

Well, a month later, and I decided to write to myself again. Once a month ain't bad. People shouldn't think that I'm that crazy for writing to myself once a month.

I'm not really sure what I have to say today. My life is currently all about the 2.6 kernel and managing deadlines for various conferences.

The code freeze for 2.5 is looming. I don't really care. I have all necessary changes in. At least, I think I do. I suppose something could come up, but I'll deal with that if/when it happens. The last fews cleared up the last of my pending changes: I finally shrank the sysfs methods so that attributes may look like

struct device_attribute {
        struct attribute        attr;
        ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
        ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf, size_t count);
};

Last night, I flew back from Israel, leaving from Tel Aviv at 1am, and arriving in JFK at 6:30am, and by 10:30am I was back home. Woo hoo!

Now I just need to exercise, shower, and then repack so I can drive down to Cape Code. Diocesan Council is having an off-site meeting/retreat tonight and Saturday. With any luck, I won't even need to drink a lot of Coffee to keep myself awake; I s

So I'm in Tel Aviv, to give a presentation for IBM Israel. Richard Stallman was also supposed to show up, but he left a one line message saying he couldn't make it for some reason (although he would show up in Haifa the following day). This has the conference organizers in a bit of a frenzy.

Unfortunately I won't have much opportunity to do any sight-seeing. Due to corporate security restrictions, I'm not allowed to do any sight-seeing, and technically I'm not supposed to go to any restaurants other than the hotel one. But if the locals take me some place, I'll assume that it's safe....

Wow, it's been forever, but I'm stalling while I should be working on my linux.conf.au paper...

Zaitcev thanks for that USB patch. It was one of those things that I always knew was not quite right, but never bothered me enough to fix properly. Unfortunaly, there's probably lots of tiny pieces of the kernel that exist like that.

After several years of having this account and never doing anything with it, I decided that today was a fine day to start using it.

I'm not a big fan of diaries, as I feel like I'm wrting to myself. I talk to myself enough as it is, writing it just seems weird..

Today is another cold, sunny day in Springfield, IL. It is warming up, and should only get down to 27 tonight.

I'm working on a paper for the Australian Linux Conference on the Linux Kernel driver model work that has taken over my life, er I mean, that I've been working on for the last 1.5 years. So far, it's a 36 page Masterpiece, with 4 days to review, revise, rewrite and submit it. The current draft can be found on

kernel.org. It's in Star Office format.

Have been seq_filing more and more stuff, some bugs related
to /proc/net/arp were fixed recently and /proc/net/tcp seems
to have a problem in davem's tests, but I'm
not being able to reproduce...