posts brought to you by the category “bsd”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
Marc Fonvieille : Encrypted File System on a USB Thumbdrive
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I don't know either Anil or Paul personally though they seem like perfectly nice fellows.
But oh my god, two serious and earnest
keeners should never be stuck in the same room together lest they fall
prey to the kind of breathless blowhard-ism witnessed in this piece. I
can't speak to the practice of journalism or about Windows scripting
and I still think Amazon is evil. But I will not let go of the
conviction that the de-rigeur
-ness concerning
permalinks
and the
inherent reverse chronology of weblog posts
is still a crock of shit. Carry on, now.
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Everything you've heard said about Velázquez' Innocent the Tenth is true.
Boucher and St. Denis, Montréal, September
2003
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Norm Walsh laughs at your "sophisticated" weblogging system.
Me : ASCOPE::Search::Boolean.pm 1.1
Tom Magliozzi : "Are you really planning to chase goats up a mountain?"
Me : XML::SAXDriver::NYTimes.pm 0.4
Me : All versions of the Eatdrinkfeelgood DTD
Me : XML::Handler::RSS.pm 0.2 (nee amphetasax)
Wherein, our hero admits that the package :
is not a general purpose XML to hash parser, nor is it especially smart about adding new elements not already accounted for in the code. It's not even that much faster than XML::Handler::2Simple. Slower even :
insert benchmarks hereIt can, however, de-Clark-ify element names and tries to be smart about using references for elements that occur more than once, <foaf:thingies> for example.
But, someone asked me about parsing RSS with SAX and it's been a good exercise.
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Well, that does it. I'm finally going to write XML::Filter::XMLRPC.
see also :
ical2rdf
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File it all under "If you had an idea but
never did anything about,
did you
really have the idea?
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : kismet
Kismet, KS (city, FIPS 37325) Location: 37.20500 N, 100.70057 W Population (1990): 421 (174 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67859 Kismet, NY Zip code(s): 11706 gazetteer
Kismet \Kis"met\, n. [Per. qismat.] Destiny; fate. [Written also {kismat}.] [Oriental] web1913
kismet n : (Islamic) the will of Allah [syn: {kismat}] wn
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Michel Blanchard : "[A]près le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Lafleur,
le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Carbonneau, voilà le
Gino, Gino, Gino de Gino Odjick."
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : recalcitrant
Recalcitrant \Re*cal"ci*trant\, a. [L. recalcitrans, p. pr. of recalcitrare to kick back; pref. re- re- + calcitrare to kick, fr. calx heel. Cf. {Inculcate}.] Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory. web1913
recalcitrant adj 1: marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius" [syn: {refractory}] 2: marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstraters" wn
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Taegan Goddard : " Amazon.com is now offering XML feeds for their associates to use."
In Québec, it is called a "positive obligation"
under either the
Civil code
or the
Charter
of Rights
(I have sent my little lawyer friend off to find out.) There is,
however, a distinction to be made between whether or not the house is
burning down or burning down with people inside. If the former there
might be some grounds for bringing a suit on the grounds of negligence
but apparently it is difficult to convict a person based solely on
"acts of ommission". But, if the latter and you didn't call 911 and the
person dies then you can be sued for having not fulfilled a civic
responsibility. This was enforced a few years back when a driver
neglected to provide any kind of assistance for persons stranded on the
side of the road and they subsequently died of exposure. Equally
important is the provision that says if you do come to the aid of a
person and something bad, but unintentional, happens in the process
you, personally, are immune from further suit. This is refered to as
the "Good Samaritan" clause; something that apparently the American
legal system overlooked much to the delight of its practitioners.
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Me : "Following up on the 'smell the flowers' post
from the other day, I've started fleshing
out a "types" table for blog widgets. ... Since they are all
essentially the same thing and can all share the same properties ...
the only real distinction that needs to be made is the relation a
thingy has to the other thingies."
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Bran Van 3000 : What is Knabber Knossi?
and other
nicht veröffentlichte songs
(mp3)
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www.yougrowgirl.com
"If gardening really is the new
rock’n’roll, then Yougrowgirl.com is "indie rock"."
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Simson Garfinkel : Spamthing
"maintains a list of people who are allowed to
send you mail. This list is called a whitelist. When somebody who is not
on your whitelist sends you an email message, they get a very simple
message in response ... When the sender gets this email message, all they
have to do is click reply and then click send. Spamthing scans all of
your incoming email for a message from the particular sender that has the
words SPAMTHING #119285431 in the Subject: line. When it finds this
message, it automatically adds the sender to your whitelist and sends
them [a] polite message in response."
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is embonpoint
| source : web1913 | Embonpoint \Em`bon`point"\,
n. [F., fr. en bon point in good condition. See {Bon}, and {Point}.]
Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent. |
source : wn | embonpoint adj : euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation
ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies";
"pleasingly plump" [syn: {buxom}, {chubby}, {plump}, {zaftig}, {zoftig}]
n : the bodily property of being well rounded [syn: {plumpness}]
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Theoretic Solutions : JabberSMTP Agent
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Cynthia Malaran : Watching the Changes
"I had originally started this photo collection
as a tribute to the view out of my bedroom window that I grew up with.
Never did I think I would be speaking of it in the past tense, at least
not under these conditions." via
calamondin
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Commander Taco : Handling the Loads
"[Following the events of September 11, 2001]
many news sites collapsed under the load, we managed to keep stumbling
along. Countless people have asked me questions about how Slashdot
handled the gigantic load spike."
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You would think that the first thing on a bank's list of things
to tell customers when they don't want to
sign up for Internet banking because they are concerned you [the
teller] will lose your job is : Don't leave this document out for
customers to see. Atleast not to the page that recommends you say "I
love for working for the [insert bank here]!"
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Matt Sergeant : "It was then I thought about the stuff
Damian and Marcel have been working on.
Attribute::Handlers
stuff. Wouldn't it be great if we could do:
sub foo : WebService { }
And have foo automatically become a web service? Yeah, I thought so too
:-) So I've written Attribute::WebService. I'll stick it on CPAN this
week, though it's pretty raw right now. It also hacks into the internals
of SOAP::Lite, because the public API wasn't complete enough. It also by
default implements it's own httpd using HTTP::Daemon, which is probably a
pretty inefficient way to do things. However I *think* I've made it
overridable so that you could implement Attribute::WebService::Apache and
have it work via mod_perl."
You'll have to scroll down for this because I
can't figure out how use.perl/slash2 does permalinks and I have better
things to waste my time on...
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is languor
| source : web1913 | Languor \Lan"guor\, n. [OE.
langour, OF. langour, F. langueur, L. languor. See Languish.] 1. A state
of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and
characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any
enfeebling disease. [Obs.] Sick men with divers languors. --Wyclif (Luke
iv. 40). 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. `` German dreams,
Italian languors.'' --The Century. Syn: Feebleness; weakness; faintness;
weariness; dullness; heaviness; lassitude; listlessness. | source : wn |
languor n 1: a relaxed comfortable feeling [syn: {dreaminess}] 2: a
feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: {lassitude}, {listlessness}]
3: an unusual lack of energy [syn: {lethargy}, {sluggishness}]
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developerWorks : Style sheets can write style sheets too
"This article shows how an XSLT style sheet that
performs some particular runtime transformation can be built from XSLT
components."
I really like XSLT but it really shouldn't be
left in the hands of just anyone. I think the popular understanding is
that you can just get the propellor-heads to generate XML programtically
and then have your designers writing XSL. The problem is that, unless the
transformations occur in an environment that monitors memory, CPU and
disk usage, there is too much opportunity for a sloppy, or malicious,
errors that will bring the whole machine to it's knees.
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Luis Argerich : Using XML-RPC from PHP
Alastair Burt : XEmacs DTML Mode
woohoo!
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Jan Mlodozeniec, 1929 - 2000
The 2000 Massey Lecture : The Rights Revolution
"In Canada, rights have become the trump card in
every argument from family life to Parliament Hill. But the notorious
fights for aboriginal rights and for the linguistic heritage of
French-speaking Canadians have steered Canada into a full-blown rights
revolution. This revolution is not only deeply controversial here, but is
being watched around the world. Are group rights — to land and
language — jeopardizing individual rights? Has the Charter of
Rights empowered ordinary Canadians or just enriched constitutional
lawyers? When everyone asserts their rights, what happens to
responsibilities? Michael Ignatieff confronts these questions head-on in
The Rights Revolution, defending the supposed individualism of rights
language against all comers." Live 20h30 EST and re-broadcast next week.
(real evil g2)
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CBC : Why can't we tickle ourselves?
"Researchers at University College London found
that the cerebellum detects self-inflicted touch ahead of time and tells
the rest of the brain to ignore the resulting sensation, spoiling the fun
of self-tickling."
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From the Pen is Mightier than the Sword department :
comes the
Write Here
Suite
that brings handwriting recognition software to the desktop, using PalmOS
gadgets as the interface. Meanwhile, the rumours are not just that Apple
is building handwriting software into OS X, but that the plan to "
eliminate the need for a keyboard.
" Over coffee, this morning, I wondered aloud why no one had yet made --
or atleast properly marketed -- textured surfaces for digital tablets.
There is a reason that artists don't all work on the same kinds of paper
or canvas or stone and the fact that surface is imitated on the screen
demonstrates that someone isn't paying very much attention to their
customers. "Well, maybe the tablets are very sensitive," said my friend.
"And an uneven surface would interrupt how much information it received
from the pen." Exactly.
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LEAPs (LibwEb APplications)
"is a suite of community web site applications
built by using a Perl toolkit called LibWeb. Currently it has a
file-manager and possibly more in the future as developers write more web
applications based on the interfaces and frameworks defined in LibWeb ...
This makes LEAPs plug-and-play web applications." The problem with saying
that is that it has to pass the 30 second test which I've never ever seen
happen on a Unix machine. I'll be curious. Meanwhile, as more news about
the Perl 6 re-write comes out, I am happy to see that
the system call will stop returning false on success
. mmmmm .... return 1;
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I hacked
the
Turlyming
NSI whois bookmarklet
so that it is now a
Geektools whois bookmarklet
because [they] query all the registrars and because they've started a
Geek Hotel
Directory
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If you're easily swayed but other people's opinion,
know now that
music, the internet and bananas are good but chocolate, vegetables and
coffee are bad bad bad
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PHP Builder, XML & PHP : Using expat functions
Builder.com : Flash Poetry
Not quite as elegant as
this
but neat and geeky, nevertheless. Now, if I were to make weblog poetry
"magnets",
which words should I
use?
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Cook's Companion 1.0
"is a handy, quick reference guide for common
measurement, temperature and ingredient equivalents and substitutions.
It's free, reasonably complete and auto-bookmarked for easy navigation."
Just wait until *you* have to figure out how many packets of dry yeast
make up half a compressed cube. (PalmOS)
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Le Devoir : De Québec.inc. à Québec.com
"Pour expliquer ce que sera la nouvelle économie
de demain, Michel Cartier utilise la métaphore du gâteau à étages: les
entreprises qui produiront les contenus et les services et le
développement des applications et des passerelles formeront la pâte de ce
gâteau. Elles s'intégreront dans une nouvelle chaîne de
production-diffusion qui aura pour tâche de réduire et d'harmoniser les
prix. Les entreprises de télécommunications et de transmission de données
(telco, câblo, micro-ondes, satellites, etc.) intégreront, comme une
garniture entre les étages, tous les niveaux de communications en un
réseau de réseaux dont l'élément principal sera Internet. L'industrie des
contenus formera le glaçage de cette pièce montée, une industrie dont les
principaux moteurs seront le divertissement et le commerce électronique."
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Studio B : Tim O'Reilly on E-Books
Saturday Night : Call Him Nardwuar
"One guy wrote 'Nardwuar, you are the litmus test
for humanity. Anyone who gets upset by you is a jerk. Those who find you
wonderful, magical, and hysterical are all those things inside.' " I'd
like to think that Nardwuar maybe goes a small way towards exonerating
Canada for having unleashed Bryan Adams, Celine Dion and
Alanis
Morissette
on the world.
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NY Times on the Child Online Protection Act hearings
"[Judge Leonard I. Garth] said the law still left
open the possibility that the standards of the most socially traditional
communities in the United States -- conservative residents of Utah, for
example -- would 'be the ceiling for the rest of us.' "
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We are one people, one resolve, one orgasm.
quicktime
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Scope on the Air Guitar World Championships
"The competition wound down with an
all-contestant jam of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World." The
audience, and all the participants in the webcast, were encouraged to
join along in the arm-jerking frenzy for world peace. As the
Championship's website states: 'If everyone played the air guitar, there
would be no wars because the soldiers would have to lay down their
weapons.'"
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Michael Kimmelman
It is as if they were saying: this is what architecture, carried to a creative extreme, can do for an art that is strong enough and sympathetic enough to deal with it, and vice versa.
Speaking of art, there was a time a few
years ago when tea-bag art was all the rage. I wonder whether anyone
has started making art out of laundry detergent scoops yet.
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Advanced Book Exchange
27 countries, 51 independent book stores, 14
million titles.
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NY Times : Big Business Experiments With Web Art
Joe Lelyveld
"While literally billions of speculative dollars
are being amassed, invested and turned into overnight fortunes in this
effort to develop and control the means of transmission in the coming age
of instantaneous information, investment in the actual gathering of
information by conventional journalistic means is in apparent decline,
under the banner of cost control, in all but a handful of traditional
news organizations. ... The Internet ... is a wonderful place to collect
raw data. But it's not, so far, a wonderful place to find reliable and
original reporting, real news, except where it has been siphoned off the
old."
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Terry Waite on using implants to prevent kidnapping
"It is very dangerous because once kidnappers get
to know about these things, they will skin you alive to find them."
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wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses CSS kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a browser with incomplete CSS and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right unreadable please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through the cracks.
See also : W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid