JhAutoBuild
Thanks to the excellent JhAutoBuild, I discovered a problem in my recent Sound Juicer refactoring that even a make distcheck didn't detect, causing a build failure. It's now confirmed to be fixed, as another machine has just done a clean build. Sweet.
As thanks I'm contributing possibly the slowest build machine in the world: my LinkStation NAS box. It's a PowerPC running at about 100MHz, with 64MB of RAM. I hope I've got enough of the dependencies installed, you can follow it's rather slow progress here. 25 minutes in and it's still building the first module, libxml2. Go Melchett go!
NP: Protection, Massive Attack
UKIP U-Turn
Amusing news yesterday, as it's revealed that Roger Knapman, the leader of UKIP (a single-issue party who dislikes the EU, and basically wants to reduce, or remove, immigration), hires Polish builders to work on his country mansion. The bonus punchline: the builders are hired through a Polish-registered company that specialises in hiring eastern Europeans to work in Britian, which is run by Mr Knapman's son.
Mr Knapman, an MEP and the UKIP's leader since 2002, recruited the workers through his son, whose company specialises in bringing foreign labour to Britain.
The men have been at Mr Knapman's grade-II listed home in the village of Coryton, west Devon, for 11 months. They sleep dormitory-style in the attic.
The company run by Mr Knapman's son claims that the imported labour costs up to 50 per cent less than British workers would. Mr Knapman, speaking to an undercover reporter from The Sunday Times, praised the men as "they work so much harder".
(from The Independent)
NP: Boards of Pays-Bas, Poxfil
