Author archives: Mike

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grams and I played 1 game of snooker and then 3 of pool. Going to have to brush up on the rules of pool, it's been way too long, and there's at least 2 major variants that we're conflating. Still working on getting Gentoo set up for real work. Eric3 (a Python IDE) is crashing ...

Grams and I played 1 game of snooker and then 3 of pool. Going to have to brush up on the rules of pool, it's been way too long, and there's at least 2 major variants that we're conflating. Still working on getting Gentoo set up for real work. Eric3 (a Python IDE) is crashing ...

Still no luck with getting the binary packages (even with Darryl's suggestion). I'm guessing that something's messed up with my GENTOO_BINHOST setting. Not a huge issue, now that I have KDE up and running I can compile the rest of the packages as I work.

Still no luck with getting the binary packages (even with Darryl's suggestion). I'm guessing that something's messed up with my GENTOO_BINHOST setting. Not a huge issue, now that I have KDE up and running I can compile the rest of the packages as I work.

Granted, my machine is old, but that's 12 hours! And that still leaves me needing Mozilla and OpenOffice, both of which are apparently huge installs (though I can use the machine to some extent while those are going on). Need to figure out how to get the binary packages working if this is going to ...

Granted, my machine is old, but that's 12 hours! And that still leaves me needing Mozilla and OpenOffice, both of which are apparently huge installs (though I can use the machine to some extent while those are going on). Need to figure out how to get the binary packages working if this is going to ...

Today was mostly spent making the two scanners play nicely together and then moving the main cmon instance over to using the newest code (and then migrating data between the various databases). Also did some work on a side-project for analysing Cinemon results for Bryan, but by the time I was starting to get interesting ...