When I first learned networking in Java, it took me a while to wrap my head around the fact that there was no select(). All of my previous TCP programming experience was based on select-driven event loops in C, Python, or Perl. The select-loop seemed like a very natural way to handle […]
I need to find an updated version of HashCash soon. In the meantime, I turned on a bunch of bristly comment-spam-unfriendly options, such as “you must be registered to comment”.
UPDATE: Some evidence exists that HashCash has been worked around by some comment spammers. So I guess it’s time to roll my […]
A while back the data disk in my Linux machine failed. That machine served me well for around 4 years. Since I wanted a faster Linux server anyway, I built a new machine and migrated the data (from the backup). The old machine got pushed into a corner for eventual […]
I’ll spare my readers the head-bashing that finding this involved and spell it out:
My perfectly valid XUL file was failing to load once I added the XML directory to use a stylesheet. The error message suggested some error parsing the XML (”xml processing instruction not at start of external entity”).
In […]
I’ve been learning about writing Firefox extensions and naturally sought to automate the .xpi assembly process. Packaged Firefox extensions (.xpi) and the jar files nested within them are “ordinary zip files”. A simple extension’s .xpi file might contain a structure like this:
helloworld.xpi
install.rdf
chrome/
helloworld.jar
content/
helloworld/
contents.rdf
.. (more files) ..
(Where bold means “is a […]
I followed the super-easy instructions to upgrade to WordPress 1.5. I’d been waiting for this release before sinking any time into my template. So now there’s no excuse.
Update: Alas, HashCash doesn’t work with WordPress 1.5 yet. I’ll look into it more later.
I’ve been exploring a couple projects lately:
Build a MythTV machine. To this end, I’ve picked up a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, pcHDTV HD-3000, Radio Shack VHF, UHF and HDTV Indoor TV Antenna, and a 200G Maxtor disk. I’ve put the HDTV card and disk in what used to be my XP desktop machine. […]
Since addressing comment spam a bit ago, I haven’t seen any further incidents of comment spam.
There are lots of programming languages. There are many programmers that use these languages. I wonder how many programmers know how many languages and which ones they know. For example, I’d be surprised if there are many Scheme programmers that know only Scheme, but I know […]