Mon, 01 Feb 2010
[12:53] | [/web] | Procrastination
Fri, 22 Jan 2010
Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility
Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility
I think this is a hugely important issue that doesn't get enough attention.
[16:41] | [/science] | Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility
Mon, 28 Dec 2009
Started the setup on the new etla.org server, now to be called eris.etla.org. Hoping to get people and services moved over in the next week or two.
[16:12] | [/unix] | Eris setup
Sun, 22 Nov 2009
"If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute."
[19:46] | [/web] | "If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute."
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
My Wikireader arrived.
[14:51] | [] | Wikireader
Sat, 01 Aug 2009
Had to stop using the spam filtering service I was using for etla.org, so I now expect to get drowned in the stuff.
[20:27] | [/unix] | Spam filtering
My Life Offline - interesting article, fits in well with my frequent anti-internet moods lately.
[20:19] | [/web] | My Life Offline
[19:56] | [/web] | Rejecta Mathematica
Wed, 11 Mar 2009
Someone's collection of links to online CS courses.
I don't remember exactly where I found it, I think Hacker News
[21:31] | [/web] | Comp Sci links
Tue, 24 Feb 2009
I went to Brussels at the weekend!
I'm too lazy to write it up properly, but you can Look at the Photos.
[17:05] | [/web] | My Trip To Brussels
Sat, 06 Dec 2008
After thinking about doing it for ages, webmail on etla.org should be working again.
Tue, 26 Aug 2008
The CPAN mirror at cpan.etla.org is temporarily broken, as it's having trouble rsyncing updates. I'm investigating as much as I have time for.
[21:39] | [] | CPAN broke
Thu, 24 Jul 2008
Mon, 21 Jul 2008
The Underground History of American Education - looks like it could be interesting reading, although I don't have time to actually read it at the moment.
[19:10] | [/web] | More Distraction
[19:09] | [/web] | Distraction
Tue, 27 May 2008
I've been using my mac mini as a backup server for ages. Over the weekend it died. I'm almost certain it's the hard drive.
I'm going to attempt to replace the hard drive, and I should even get some extra space if it works, but I'm thinking it may be time to upgrade my storageness.
At the moment I'm tempted by the ReadyNAS Duo. Lots more storage, RAID, hopefully less to manage, and I'm told it probably does the rsync things I use at the moment for backups.
[21:36] | [] | Time to buy a NAS?
Sun, 13 Apr 2008
Been trying gnus for email a bit.
Seems better than I remember it. IMAP support works nicely, although I didn't try SSL, which I remember being the tricky bit. Spent a while with it mysteriously showing mail in folders where I know I'd deleted it. I don't know what the actual cause was, but disabling the "agent" seems to have fixed it.
Got bbdb installed and integrated nicely, need to have a look at one of the nicer quoting packages.
Mon, 24 Mar 2008
Low cost laptop cheat sheet. Personally I like the look of the Asus 901, although it's a bit expensive. And not actually available yet.
(Sourced from Roger)
[22:19] | [/web] | Low cost laptop cheat sheet
Sat, 09 Feb 2008
Put a contract out on yourself!
I found stickK in the Economist this week. It seems like an excellent idea - motivate yourself by contracting to pay out if you don't meet personal goals.
[15:45] | [/web] | Put a contract out on yourself!
Sat, 28 Jul 2007
[14:19] | [/web] | Thunderbird leaving mozilla
Mon, 11 Jun 2007
[16:57] | [/web] | GCSE Physics destroyed
Wed, 30 May 2007
[11:56] | [/web] | Javascript vi
Tue, 29 May 2007
I've created a separate running blog at A Story of Doom.
[11:54] | [/web] | Running blog
Mon, 16 Apr 2007
[17:22] | [/web] | Any Damn Fool
Sun, 18 Mar 2007
Lately I've been liking findbugs for finding all sorts of dodgy things in java source. I applied it to JCS and it reported a bunch of inconsistent synchronization bugs.
I've filed JCS-21 in the JCS issue tracking system to document my proposed fixes for these. The problem (as I see it) is that if you're accessing data in Java shared between multiple threads, you always need to do it inside the scope of an appropriate synchronized block. This appears to be not as widely known as it should be, although it's documented in a lot of places (Synchronization is not the enemy from the IBM site is a good starting place for reading about it).
[22:13] | [/code] | JCS Threading
Sat, 10 Mar 2007
After further tarting up, my twitter posting client is now up for download. It now has an install script, a license, and can be used without editing the source.
The currently rather dull looking darcs repository is at twitterpost darcs repository.
[20:21] | [/code] | Twitter client
Wed, 07 Mar 2007
Sun, 04 Mar 2007
So lately I've been playing with twitter. It seems like a fun toy, but all that visiting the website was getting tedious.
I took the obvious action, and wrote a small python script to let you post from the command line, much in the way of /usr/bin/mail. To use, download to a machine with python, and edit the username and password in the script.
It may even work for people who aren't me. One day I might tart it up enough for a formal release.
[21:20] | [/code] | Twitter Client
Fri, 02 Mar 2007
[21:20] | [/web] | Links of the day
- retrofone - specialists in obsolete mobile phones. Tried to order a 7110 from them and my card was rejected, their contact email address bounced.
- thinkgeek retro phone handset
- Hulger retro handsets
- iwantoneofthose retro telephones
- Mayfair retro phone with buttons
- Dial Retro Telephones
- the home of vintage and rare mobile phones
[21:19] | [/web] | Retro Phones
The Atom feed but I reported in pyblosxom got fixed here
[21:19] | [] | Atom bugs in pyblosxom
Updated the blog with my FSF membership icon. If 3 people join via the link, I get an answering machine message from Richard Stallman :)
[12:41] | [] | FSF membership
Mon, 26 Feb 2007
Sign this petition to promote the use of Open Document Format within the UK government.
[14:02] | [/web] | OpenDocument Petition
Thought I'd try out gnash at the weekend (it's a free-software flash implementation). It seems to be really pretty bad - it hasn't crashed Firefox or anything, but the best I got was some bits of a flash movie barely working. I have high hopes for the project though, and it is still alpha.
Sat, 24 Feb 2007
I fixed a reported bug in my atom feed that meant none of the links worked. This may have meant you saw all the articles again, as the content will have changed.
Update: Now reported as a bug to pyblosxom at sourceforge
[18:00] | [] | Feed bug fixed
Mon, 19 Feb 2007
[11:32] | [/web] | Parallel Processing Barbie
Sun, 18 Feb 2007
saigo.etla.org is now doing greylisting, based on the Greylisting with pf tutorial. Let me know if this causes you problems.
[15:47] | [/unix] | Now greylisting
Sun, 11 Feb 2007
[19:58] | [/code] | Zile updates