Author archives: Mike
Shane's Darwin platform module for OpenGL-ctypes (Test and report bugs...)
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Snaking.
Shane Holloway just sent in a darwin.py platform module that should let OpenGL-ctypes run on OS-X (he's only tested with the wxPython demo so far). I've checked the module into CVS, so all you darwin peoples who've just been chomping at the bit to see the OpenGL-ctypes goodness, feel free to check it out and ...
Getting MeetMe running on Gentoo (Key is apparently to specify the "zaptel" use flag when emerging)
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Tuxedo.
I'm trying to do a little experiment with MeetMe under Asterisk. Nothing complex, just using a SIP account to create a little user's chat line thing. Eventually have it controlled by the provisioning system with a charge added to your monthly bill when you set up a conference.
I got blocked the last time I ...
Well that was cool (For about 5 seconds...)
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Snaking.
So, I finally got all the ducks in line enough to let Cinemon do an entirely "remoted" scan of a real CMTS and all of its modems... It was kinda cool. My little workstation here was running both the server and the client, along with another hundred or so processes, including recording video and everything ...
History of Rice Pudding
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Vindaloo.
The rice pudding is just rice
Cooked too late to do it right
I should be sleeping
But my mind is spinning
Jumping from project to project
Wanting to build
Something for the ages
In these last few moments
Before sleep
Rice pudding will never make it
Into the history books
But I can get ...
Sometimes the solution needs time to gestate (Sometimes you induce labour...)
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Had another one of those moments, you know the ones; you are starting to run out of tickets in the project and realise that 2 or 3 of them are actually the same basic problem that you've been avoiding for a few months because it doesn't seem to have an elegant solution.
You back off ...
A bit of paying work (Since I don't seem to be getting anything done on the Open Source stuff)
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Finally discovered the reason the silly togl ebuild doesn't work: the makefile doesn't actually install anything, so it creates an empty package... so useful. I got to that point and just said to heck with togl.
Decided instead to take a nap and then get some paying work done. Discovered one of those nasty bugs ...
For Someone Else
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Vindaloo.
Sure I'm perfect
For someone else
Just not right for you
Why do women say that
I wonder yet again
It's enough to make a cynic
Were I not already one
So maybe I'm not perfect
Or maybe you are just
Too polite to ask
I am not perfect
But maybe I could pass
For ...
Dark Hair Shorn
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Vindaloo.
Militant girl full of fire and conviction
She angrily decries the male oppressor
Who would despoil her darker hair
(Though she demands a smooth-shorn chin)
It is years later that I see her
Older, holding some mid-level job
She seems more fashionable
Groomed and outfitted in slick half-suits
That let on she's a woman
While ...
Lasting Scents
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Vindaloo.
What an unforgettable scent
To come to mind so easily
A long decade on
Surely you could sell it
If it were scent itself
That made it last so long
Truth forces me to tell
It is not the smell that I recall
But hair from wence it came
Midnight Clocks
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Vindaloo.
Here there is no champagne
No streamers not left over
From parties thrown
On happier days
Crowds of shining happy faces
Have not appeared on cue
Because of this dratted bug
So lil' sis' and I drink orange juice
Laced with day-old ginger ale
Watch silly movies on the box
Drift in and out of ...
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.