Archives week 2 of 2005
Jan. 10, 2005 - Jan. 16, 2005
Naps and plans (The weekend completes its disappearing act...)
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Realised I was exhausted, so took a 6 or 7 hour nap somewhere in there. Now I'm considering getting an early start on the week.
Sometime soon now I should be getting the SIP-server project redesign spec, but Bryan wants me to see if I can get old-cmon running again. Sigh. I'm extremely tempted to ...!-->!-->
Just scrape past her... (3 games to 2 and every one of them was close)
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150 shots in around 9 hours (30 or 40 are usable)
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Since everyone's always wanted to know (The view out Mikey's window as he works...)
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Continuing to play with the camera. Very impressive for still-life shots (though I haven't much to use for subject-matter). Getting a better feel ...!-->!-->
Toys are fun! (Finally get around to buying the camera...)
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As intended, I bought the Powershot ...!-->!-->
Hoarse and deaf, without a decent conversation to show for it (How to discourage intellectuals from hanging out in your establishment...)
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Went to a friend's birthday party tonight. Was held at the Trane Studio (a bar of sorts). The music was good (live, for the most part), no complaints there. It's just that it was so loud that the only way to make oneself heard was to scream in one another's ears. It only took 30 ...
Slow day for productivity... (Staring at a black box doesn't train it well)
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Spent part of my day trying to tease out answers as to why Cinemon went berserk last night, acting as though the network was experiencing sporadic failures all over the joint. When I thought to post my musings, Bryan noted that, yes, there had been sporadic failures all over the network.
Which got me thinking; ...!-->!-->
Rebuilding computers takes way too long (2 day's off-hours sopped up...)
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Wound up rebuilding a friend's machine on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, it was a very slow machine, so it took far longer than I was hoping. She was asleep by the time I was ready to start configuring the email client, so I just left it for her. Oops. I use a hardware firewall (and Mozilla), ...
A few tiny steps forward in OpenGLContext (So much more relaxing than Cinemon...)
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Added code to cycle through defined viewpoints in a VRML97 file, to adopt the specified fieldOfView of the viewpoint, and to respect the "jump" flag in deciding whether to update position and rotation.
I think with that I'm basically done tinkering with the Viewpoint support. It's by no means a full VRML97 viewpoint implementation, but ...!-->!-->
Hard limits and heuristics (Or, my day in frustrating revelations...)
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Have been doing all of our testing/development work with a partially-specified hierarchy provided by ACI. The change last week, which I thought of as creating an over-specified hierarchy in the demo/testing code had actually come darn close to simulating precisely a normal hierarchy. The extreme slowdown turns out to be a real effect that we ...