Archives September 2008
Sigh, too far, too fast
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Snaking.
Have had to shelve the changes for PyOpenGL to use the pyglet generator for the core code. Wound up getting extremely hard-to-debug errors which appeared to be due to corruption of object's GC structures (possibly due to GIL-holding issues) when I switched to a Linux 32-bit platform (instead of 64-bit).
I don't want to hold ...
Mind your Ps, Qs and CCallbacks
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Snaking.
Been debugging a weird error in GLUT this evening. Basically if you went into OpenGLContext and used a right-mouse-click-and-drag to rotate around the center-of-view, there would, every once in a while, be a seg-fault. It didn't happen if you rotated a bit more slowly, or you turned on full logging to see what's going on, ...
Look, but don't worry about them...
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Polis.
One of my colleagues was mentioning a book he'd read in which the author claimed that the most important thing we should be doing was figuring out a way to deflect "killer asteroids" (I assume or meteorites) intent upon destroying the Earth. The author was apparently saying our greatest need as a society was to ...
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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.