Awful Service
Today I did almost nothing other than to design an icon on Irix for AbiWord. I wanted to help the SGI Freeware guys a little, and when I think I can do an icon for a program, I usually do and send them the files. It's nothing special, but it's what I try to do to help.
But then I had to deal with the ISP for CellAnalysis. What a goofy bunch of guys. I tell them to get the code for FFTW and build it. There are a lot of optimizations that are done in the build to get the fastest implementation possible on the target hardware. It's a good thing to so. They didn't. They got a set of RPM libraries, which didn't include the header files. So I can't build and they have to go back to find the right RPM with the includes. What a goofy situation.
I need something else to do... I'm waiting for people to do things and I need to keep my mind busy so I don't think about the job search.
UPDATE: - they installed the headers after I asked for them. Then I was able to build CIA with the FFT smoothing of the sample data. I emailed Joel to let him know that I'd done this, and what still didn't work at CellAnalysis (no PNG headers -> no PNG output from Ploticus) but that's not critical at this point. In the end, they got it right.