matt | July 28, 2008
I was reading the Unix Hater's Handbook and came across this gem:
If you sit down at a friend’s Macintosh, with its single mouse button, you
can use it with no problems. If you sit down at a friend’s Windows box,
with two buttons, you can use it, again with no problems. But just try mak-
ing sense of [...]
matt | July 27, 2008
- We're growing some eggplant this year, including some skinny Japanese eggplant. We got three of them, which made a perfect amount for some venison stir-fry.
- I have one Jalapeno.
- I have a pile of very spicy radishes.
- The lettuce is doing well.
- The tomatoes can turn red any time now.
- The broccoli is very [...]
matt | July 27, 2008
I wish it wasn't over, but I did get some things done.
- Primed some shelves I'm building for my office
- Finished the drapes in my office (the strings needed to be cut to length, and the ends of the wooden rods needed to be painted black)
- Cleaned my office
- Cleaned my workshop
- Pulled out the [...]
matt | July 27, 2008
So, Liz and I are working on rejiggering things in the kitchen…
[Wouldn't it be nice if the fridge was on this side of these cabinets?
Well, if we drop the cabinets, move the electrical and the water, we could do that quite easily. Would take an afternoon.
How about Sunday?
Works for me.]
… and I get toned out [...]
matt | July 26, 2008
they're a bunch of anti gun nitwits.
“I try and stay away from Torchwood, too many guns”.
“I don't like guns”.
Bunch of weenies. They're just tools. Sonic screwdriver, check. 1911, check. Ready to roll.
matt | July 23, 2008
Okay, so I've done some more looking in to these virtual worlds, and am compiling my results here. If I have missed anything which others know about, please comment and let me know.
For the curious, my name on the Linden grid is “Fnord Bookmite”.
Servers:
So, the central open source version is OpenSimulator. It is designed to [...]
matt | July 22, 2008
Pinky had the sniffles. It's okay, all the cats had the sniffles. Otherwise, they were fine. Pinky was eating, drinking, playing, and would come over and want to be picked up. He wanted to play and be petted and held.
This weekend, he went to an adoption clinic. He and his sister were adopted by a [...]
matt | July 18, 2008
Linky
Take that, !
Oh, we're keeping all these guys. From left, these are: Lucky, Sunkist, and One Eyed Socks McGee. Despite the name, we're trying to save his right eye.
matt | July 17, 2008
For those of you too young to remember, in the early 1990's:
(1) The world wide web was a fad, and services like NNTP and Gopher were here to stay.
(2) TCP/IP itself was a passing fad (even Microsoft said so).
Enter Second Life.
At first, I was dismissive. Sure, they're doing some neat stuff – creator-owned content and [...]
matt | July 16, 2008
I have 3D on my laptop (Thinkpad T60 with a Radeon X1400, for the curious)
Full screen glxgears @ 139FPS.
Instructions.
By looking at the DRI git commits, I knew that folks had gotten this to work on a similar laptop using the same video card as I have. So, I didn't bother with the hardware validation.
I used [...]
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