I recently bought a power saw (with a laser guide!) with some money that my in-laws gave me for my birthday. I used the rest of it to buy lumber from Home Depot as well as hardware (wood screws, mostly) to build a workbench. If you’re interested, here’s a diagram I drew using METAPOST. The [...]
Go to a local high school. Go to a restroom, and inspect the stall walls. You’ll find all kinds of things written on the inside. “Call xxx-xxxx for a good time”, grotesque etchings, racial slurs, and sexual humor are the type of things you might find. Go to the nearest university campus, and you’ll find [...]
Hilf’s word. This article is right on. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that Windows is indeed more reliable than Linux. Don’t get me wrong. I love Open Source and Linux (eh…I like OpenBSD better) as much as the next guy, but there is this sort of cultural movement within the Linux community to [...]
The Exorcist IMDB Year: 1973 Director: William Friedkin Length: 175 Category: Drama Media: DVD Studio: Warner Home Video Rating from MPAA: R ID in Amazon: 079073804X Rating: 1 out of 5 This movie has been popular for over 20 years? What on earth for? It was a hair’s breadth away from being plain awful. The [...]
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html This is an interesting way of dealing with backups. It might be interesting to see it ported to OpenBSD, although it would have to be desired by many for it to actually be accepted. I’m not sure how desirable it would really be. Would people really want to either (a) completely fill up their [...]
A brainteaser posted by John Derbyshire: A rope hangs over a pulley. On one end is a weight. Balanced on the other end is a monkey of equal weight. The rope weighs 4oz. per foot. The age of the monkey and the age of its mother together equal 4 years. The weight of the monkey [...]
Lego Difference Engine by Andrew Carol. One of the coolest lego creations I’ve seen. Pic:
I often like to derive an unimpl_error class (or something like it) so that as I’m fleshing out various parts of a piece of software, I can mark something as unimplemented by throwing an exception. I suppose a // TODO comment would serve the purpose, but for some reason, I like the exception idea. That [...]
I am currently working on an iostream sockets library for C++. See bigthicket.us for an overview in Dinkumware-style header documentation (which is now very out of date, but it still gives you the rough idea). I’ve probably spent roughly one man-week on it (rough estimate). I now partly understand why there isn’t an existing implementation [...]