Author archives: Mike
Fascinating article on planning Burning Man (Urban planning for utopias...)
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Design Theory.
This SFGate article is a rather interesting look at how the people who organise Burning Man go about protecting and supporting those who attend. Worth a look for all those interested in the philosophy of cities.
Slog-logs for the fans (What Mikey did today)
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Snaking.
Most of the day was spent on graphics :) . Basically on planning out and experimenting with how to create an overview graphic to show the entire cable-modem plant in a compact and efficient-to-create format. Planning to use SVG output with simple substitutions into string templates to keep the overhead down. The client machines are ...
Slog-logs for the fans (What Mikey did today)
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Snaking.
Most of the day was spent on graphics :) . Basically on planning out and experimenting with how to create an overview graphic to show the entire cable-modem plant in a compact and efficient-to-create format. Planning to use SVG output with simple substitutions into string templates to keep the overhead down. The client machines are ...
Gentoo is dead for the moment (And that darn Tim is a horrible influence on me...)
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Snaking.
Tim came over (mostly to play with his laptop), so I decided to play with Gentoo while he was over. In doing so, I compiled a new kernel and copied it to my boot drive... which was suddenly full!
Turns out that reiserfs by default allocates 8000 blocks for its log. The drive is only ...
Gentoo is dead for the moment (And that darn Tim is a horrible influence on me...)
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Snaking.
Tim came over (mostly to play with his laptop), so I decided to play with Gentoo while he was over. In doing so, I compiled a new kernel and copied it to my boot drive... which was suddenly full!
Turns out that reiserfs by default allocates 8000 blocks for its log. The drive is only ...
Today's slogging in glorious text-ni-colour (At least it's working again...)
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Spent the first 4 or 5 hours figuring out what the heck went wrong with the dratted ping scanner (which if you will recall was supposed to be working fine on Friday, but which wound up hung for most of the weekend). What was going wrong was that I was doing something like this:
result ...
Today's slogging in glorious text-ni-colour (At least it's working again...)
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Snaking.
Spent the first 4 or 5 hours figuring out what the heck went wrong with the dratted ping scanner (which if you will recall was supposed to be working fine on Friday, but which wound up hung for most of the weekend). What was going wrong was that I was doing something like this:
result ...
The pernicious influence of puzzles (Almost an hour wasted on this so far...)
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Vindaloo.
Got an email today telling me about a TTC puzzle to try and find ~70 English words (no-abbreviations, proper names, contractions, etceteras) formed from just the letters in "TRANSIT". I've got 54 so far (stop reading if you want to try the puzzle yourself):
a, I,
an, it, is, at, in, as, nit,
tan, sit, ...
Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits)
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Snaking.
Eric's code editing is just about perfect; the default keyboard mapping is almost identical to PythonWin (AFAICR only comment/uncomment are different), it deals nicely with TrueType fonts (but it doesn't, for some reason provide bold versions for those fonts which don't have an explicit "bold" version, which is annoying, as my favourite editing font is ...
Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits)
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Snaking.
Eric's code editing is just about perfect; the default keyboard mapping is almost identical to PythonWin (AFAICR only comment/uncomment are different), it deals nicely with TrueType fonts (but it doesn't, for some reason provide bold versions for those fonts which don't have an explicit "bold" version, which is annoying, as my favourite editing font is ...
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.