Archive for October, 2005

10/23 Powerbook

Can’t post comments on Powerbook, so…

Get Desktop Manager.
iTerm has tabs, Terminal not. GLTerm is fast, but has no tabs either, and is not UTF-8 compliant [Terminal is, after you add export LESSCHARSET=utf-8 to .bash_profile].
Check out Adium, too. Very nice. UPDATE: Ah, but, you are using it

The bouncing of icons can be disabled, fortunately. System Preferences>Dock.
You can drag and drop a file or folder to Terminal and its Unix path appears. Very useful.
I’ve had trackpads longer than I can remember. I hate the nipple-tracker. :-)

10/23 fPic news

I have fixed a couple of bugs, and added one interesting feature: fPic.displayImage(). It uses GLUT to open a window and OpenGL to draw the fPic. The code is crude in the sense that it’s mono-image only [create two fPic, display both and watch my code make a pig’s breakfast of your efforts], and doesn’t care much about checking your screen bounds vs the image’s. That’ll come in time. But it’s freaking fast. Like, very. Even on my tired TiBook, the most time-consuming task is creating the window. Copying bits to the buffer is something C code and PowerPC do well and fast.

I am not sure whether a command-line application [the intended target of fPic] is really in need of a GUI solution, even a limited one, but it sure comes in handy for me when checking the execution of new functions in fPic.

10/22 If you ever want to know why I dislike Perl

#!/usr/bin/perl -n
printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n",
map {
tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/;
$_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_;
s/\0+$//;
$_ ^= "C" x length;
} /\.([^.]+)/g;

decue.pl

10/21 Can you say it in English?

Interpretation of: Korean
[…]
We are contacting you in search of hope that you might be aware of this dialect, able to interpret this and if so your availability or ability to refer us to anyone you may know.
See here

Let’s skip the “dialect” bit [Korean being a dialect of which language..?], I am not exactly filled with confidence – say as a potential customer – by the poster’s command of English… in search of hope that you might be aware of this dialect

/me chuckles

10/13 Bienvenue en France…

“Sorry, [the WiFi scratch cards] are in the safe and the woman with the safe-key is on holidays)
Why Hotel WiFi Sucks

nuff said?