Archives 2004

So, I've been figuratively staving in my skull with tracking down the weird hanging cases that have been showing up in the ping scanning mechanism. For the most part, I've been storing the state in either explicitly passed arguments, or using nested scopes.

Having reached a point where the whole darn thing was just a ...

So, I've been figuratively staving in my skull with tracking down the weird hanging cases that have been showing up in the ping scanning mechanism. For the most part, I've been storing the state in either explicitly passed arguments, or using nested scopes.

Having reached a point where the whole darn thing was just a ...

Wound up buying more ginger than I intended to yesterday, so decided to use the entire old root for a stir-fry (mushrooms, tomotos green and red bell peppers) and do up some "cool" pasta using fresh mint and anise (after cooking, drain, pour in cold water, drain, repeat). Tossed 1/3 of a raw strong purple ...

Wound up buying more ginger than I intended to yesterday, so decided to use the entire old root for a stir-fry (mushrooms, tomotos green and red bell peppers) and do up some "cool" pasta using fresh mint and anise (after cooking, drain, pour in cold water, drain, repeat). Tossed 1/3 of a raw strong purple ...

Still working on the "randomised" ping mechanism. Spent close to an hour with the darn thing hanging because of a logic error where something that was originally synchronous was converted to being asynch, but I forgot to alter the client code in one place, so it would just sit about re-scheduling itself every 30 seconds ...

Still working on the "randomised" ping mechanism. Spent close to an hour with the darn thing hanging because of a logic error where something that was originally synchronous was converted to being asynch, but I forgot to alter the client code in one place, so it would just sit about re-scheduling itself every 30 seconds ...

Was reading an article on Wired News this afternoon about a new bill in the states intended to allow consumers and third-party technicians to access (all of) the diagnostic codes for their cars. Headaches are much like the check-engine lights described in the article. They tell you that something is wrong, but there's not much ...

Was reading an article on Wired News this afternoon about a new bill in the states intended to allow consumers and third-party technicians to access (all of) the diagnostic codes for their cars. Headaches are much like the check-engine lights described in the article. They tell you that something is wrong, but there's not much ...

Trying to be a good little Agile/Extreme programmer, I've been writing a test suite as I work on the ping scanner. The "Virtual Plant" stuff is nice for modelling the whole network-level plant, that is, it makes the SNMP queries all seem to find modems and that kind of useful thing, but it doesn't help ...

I've been pondering this idea for a while now. The language used by the mainstream media tends to glorify conflict and encourage "newsworthy" negative actions (by heaping attention on the perpetrators). Death tolls are reported as if they were game scores, trojan horse programs are given "zippy" names and compared like race horses.