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What is it like to be a bat?
I never wondered about that until yesterday. But now I have the perfect hook for one of the stories that’s been swimming around in my head. Follow the link.
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salon, 3600 reset
I got a “free gift subscription” to salon that I can give away. If you’re a close friend or family ;-) email me if you want it. I don’t know how long it’s for though. Also I soft-reset my Nokia 3600 using Russell Beattie’s instructions. Hopefully it will fix it. It was just randomly disconnecting calls for the last few days.
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panther update hassles
I upgraded to Panther (OS X 10.3) a week or so ago and I started having troubles with my development environment. Not so much XCode, that seemed to be working fine. But I coulnd’t get AxKit to work. And mozilla / camino to build (but that might be another story). So anyway I’m trying to build AxKit and getting horrible error spews when I try to install the XML::LibXML perl module. I try to debug it and I find there’s just too many versions of libxml installed. I can’t figure out which one it’s trying to use. So after pruning out some versions, that didn’t help, things seemed even worse. Finally I decided to nuke my entire fink installation. Someone said that fink gave problems when upgrading to panther.
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New way to speed read, and Axkit OS X update
This is amazing: A Speed Reader for some books by Cory Doctorow. It’s based on some kind of PARC research. Try it out. Then compare how far you went in the normal book form. I was really surprised.
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Wedding movie
I just posted the wedding movie from my cousin Dave’s wedding last september. Relatives might be interested.
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My camino history patch has landed
Mike Pinkerton, lead for Camino, just landed my history patch. This is my first major patch to go into Camino, it’s about 1000 lines of code changes or so. It fixes the history view so that you get to see a flat, time-ordered listing with daily folders.
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server is back
The server is back online. It was never really down, so mailing lists on openict.net kept working, and maybe some other stuff. But AxKit was down because mod_perl was down. Now apparently an update of apache has fixed the problem. I remind you that debian dist-upgrade is NOT something you should be running every week.
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FTXSaver alpha 4
I just posted another alpha of the screen saver. This one fixes the anti-aliasing problem and adds a requested feature to speed up colour animation. Get it here.
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server broken again...
So my sysadmin has broken his server again. No, this time it’s just mod_perl that’s broken. I think he uses debian package distupgrade without actually paying attention. Not a good idea. So none of my sites work. I have forwarded this site to my own computer for the duration of the outage.
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screen saver with openGL
Do you have Mac OS X? Download my screen saver . It’s powered by OpenGL. It draws about 60 000 primitives per second now on my machine. I suppose to make it any faster now I’d have to look at the math logic and method passing. Also in this version is the option to draw points instead of lines. It’s on by default because I think it looks better.
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