http://igmus.org/jeremiahcode/ Epistemology of Codin en-us This is a bit old, but there was a confluence of constraint talk, some moons ago. Like Todd, I want to see it in everyday tools. Laszlo/LXZ is an interesting XML for building interfaces and clients tools, compiling out to... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2003/02.jsp#constraints_thrice Dan Bernstein will be talking about the evils of DNS to Stanford's CS Security Seminar, 11 Feb. Let me know if you're attending. Abstract: The Domain Name System publishes records such as ``www.stanford.edu has IP address 171.64.14.239.'' An attacker can... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2003/02.jsp#djb_stanford I set up a mirror for one of Kim's Peephole Displays videos -- while he's being Slashdotted. peepdemo-200.avi - 15MB John Graham-Cumming catalogues dastardly tricks to beat a text classifier (skip 52 minutes; sound gets better). From the recent... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2003/01.jsp#stuff segway and social harmony: And in the past few days, I’ve noticed a certain aimlessness about myself. Usually when I close my eyes and introspect, I feel an urge to move on to the next thing, to do something new,... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/12.jsp#segway_torpidity Web Voice: "There's a fun web service built on top of a combination of Google [Images] and PayPal waiting to be created there. A big distributed clearinghouse of original photos might mean the death of canned stock pictures. Who will... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/12.jsp#googlicious_rights_propagation I've moved glastree to 1.0 stability; bug reports have been absent for many months. Also done in preparation for a 2.0 branch, which will incorporate delta compression and a proper Linux fs. Xfer: glastree-1.02.tar.gz.... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/12.jsp#glastree_102 Gentoo preserves locally-tailored configuration files -- through the onslaught of ubiquitous package updates -- by placing new, dot-permuted copies proximal to their production brothers (e.g. /etc/._cfg0001_fstab). This is both safe and simple. Nonetheless, clusters of interrelated (often superfluous) package revisions... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/12.jsp#hack_interactive_gentoo_config_integration I've been using the Gentoo distribution for ~5 weeks, on a primary server. My take: it's a contender as leading distribution to developers and admins, if it can iron out bugs and binaries. Package releases are made quite quickly. Both... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/12.jsp#gentoo_among_us Phillip Torrone's Segway Diary is a fun, if editorially challenged, account of an Amazon-Segway contest winner. The prize: factory sights, training, shipment earlier than others, and the coup de grace: a tour of Dean Kamen's gadget-filled home. Check out the... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/12.jsp#segway_diary I've been off writing fiction for a few months. But now I've begun a new Java project, and I'm adrift again in all things tech. I managed to get something published, and promised myself one publishable short story or poem... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/12.jsp#away_back Curious how hackable your network becomes with Vonage hooked up. Anyone know? Nick seems to like it.... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/11.jsp#vonage XPlanner is a servlet-based tracking tool for extreme programming projects. And I'm glad it's around. Open source has been missing XP process management systems, especially ones that assist remote collaboration. As it gets tough beyond four people to intuitively calibrate... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/10.jsp#xplanner The launch of Danger's Hiptop (currently sold only as T-Mobile's Sidekick) has been anticlimactic. Reports of manufacturing defects, mediocre site compatibility and delays of the most-important developer suite have attenuated enthusiasm. Further, rumors question the general availability of said SDK,... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/10.jsp#manhandling_hiptop Gosling, quoted: Microsoft provided tools that developers have ended up being forced to use to build desktop software, he said. "And, for lots of desktop developers [Windows] was the only market that actually mattered," Gosling said. "That is, I think,... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/10.jsp#java_on_the_desktop I suspect my greatest joy about our nanotech-vr-bioengineered-p2p-singularity future is it provisions enhanced capabilities to Good and Evil in equal measure.... http://igmus.org/code/jeremiahcode/archive/2002/09.jsp#happy_happy_joy_joy