Archives June 2007
Why is finding an accountant online so hard? (Only half a dozen in Toronto?)
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Knight Errant.
Spent another 4 hours on the taxes today, mostly getting the final forms printed on a non-mucked-up printer and then copying in all the values and checking the results. Total cost is getting way up there, around $2175 in time that could have been billable. Just because I wound up waiting for recommended people to ...
Ontario Linux Fest (Introduction to the OLPC)
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Young Coders.
Was invited to speak at the Ontario Linux Fest in October. Needed to write up a biography for it. Seems everywhere I speak to more than a few hundred people they want a biography. Anyway, here it is for the curious:
Reading up on VServer (Hopped up chroot jail, basically...)
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Young Coders.
Since VServer appears to be going in (somehow, for some period of time) I spent quite a bit of time while not emailing today reading up on the technology. It's basically some capability bits and somewhat improved chroot implementation AFAICS.
The most disturbing issue VServer seems to address is a trivial escape provided for ...
Taxes melt minds (Fall-through on accountants causes headaches...)
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Knight Errant.
I've now had 4 different planned tax accountants "drop through", one turned out not to be able to do corporate tax (duh! wish I'd known that before waiting until she was free), the one recommended by her used to do taxes for big corporations but doesn't touch taxes any more, and two others (recommended again) ...
Need some Albanian language radio streams (Keep Soni's mom from being too bored...)
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Vindaloo.
Spent the evening trying to entertain Soni's mom. We're still working on the language barrier there (and we already did quite a lot of that today), so I was looking for a few Albanian-language elements she could read/listen-to/watch during the down-time.
BBC Albania is okay, but the audio-streams don't work with RealPlayer 10 (on Linux, ...
I want to think (Idle thought as I walked home...)
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Design Theory.
I spent the largest fraction of my walk home thinking about "what nexts"; what to do after I finish building provisioning and billing systems, after I finish helping build a community to raise a laptop.
I want to go back to thinking deeply. I want to spend my days exploring really complex things, things that ...
Bash in Bitfrost (Getting access to your files...)
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Young Coders.
Been thinking a bit about how to handle multi-application environments, and one case that comes up immediately is the command shell (i.e. bash). With the overlay approach, we could start bash in an empty workspace, but then how do we get access to the files we want to manipulate?
We could alter bash to allow ...
CSound is a bit of a pain to build (Actually, a lot of a pain...)
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Young Coders.
Been trying to get csound built on my workstation since midnight or so. So far I've got the ebuild to the point of compiling everything, but I can't get it to properly install the _csnd library. The install.py file seems to assume the wrong file-name for the .so file, but I can't seem to get ...
Multi-application communications channels (Where does Jack fit into Bitfrost?)
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Young Coders.
We had a presentation down at Linux Caffe on the weekend regarding a number of Jack-based collaborative applications. Basically you can have 2 or more applications communicating audio across the Jack bus. This allows for some very elegant loose coupling of applications.
Where would we put those applications in a Bitfrost system? Would we allow ...
PyGTA on Tuesday (CSound for Python)
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Snaking.
Seneca is currently in the midst of trying to get CSound's Python binding to build. She's going to try to have a presentation ready for Tuesday on how to use the library, particularly her experiences in trying to put together a Theremin-like control mechanism for the laptop.
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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.