**Update - 23/6/07**: Turns out, screen doesn't like TERM=xterm-color. Setting TERM to xterm in my .bash_profile fixed everything - none of the hacks below is required! Incidentally, if you want unicode support for a particular language in irssi, you need to have the locales for that language installed - at …
Enough said, no?
Cheers,
Steve
From my other website, though I would share here too.
A Steve Special this one. Tiger came with sha* digests binaries, but not Leopard. So here is how you can get them back. Insert into your .bashrc:
alias 'sha'='openssl dgst -sha'
alias 'sha1'='openssl dgst -sha1'
# the following lines …
The following personifications of programming languages came about while I was discussing various languages with my friends. Basically we started off with a description or sentence about a language, and I personified. In spirit it is the OS-tans but for programming languages
"Very fast, good at a few things …
So the anti-riot laws introduced after a serious riot and subsequent revenge attacks are here to stay, after the Ombudsman's recommendations. But here is the rub though - the government accepted the recommendation to keep the new powers, but rejected the recommendations which would have provided checks and balances. These checks …
There is a problem with science today. Actually, no. There is a problem with the people of today which makes them easily exploited by detractors of science.
Science generates a lot of data. Most of that data is easily accessible. It is also easily searchable. The consequence is that regardless …
Mactorii is now open sourced! GPLv2 for the curious. I haven't cleaned it up at all, which means be prepared to stab your eyes out with rusty fork after viewing the source. James told me not to bother, "cause then you will never release it". So blame James, its his …
An interesting note about the solar panel used: I bought it from solarbotics, and the panel "burnt out" after a few hours in the sun. Several of the subcells were noticeably darker and the headbot will no longer activiate under my testing lamp. Changing the panels to one in storage …
Someone whose name I can not recall once said there was no point in simulating robotic behaviour unless you can simulate everything. That is to say, you are better off building one to see what problems are instead of trying to find problems by simulation. I saw the wisdom of …
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. - Vannevar Bush
Cheers,
Steve
Cheers,
Steve
&tBeen working this for 2 days, it implements the same algorithm pictorii did, only now it will operate on your local files.
It is pretty nifty, so give it a twirl if you use OS X. It is written in python, so it run on *nix too, except I haven't …
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is …
I believe it is reasonable to gauge how well a system of theories describe the world by how accurate its predictions are. By this standard science has shown itself to be fantastic at predicting the varied phenomena of nature. But how well does religion measure up? Wikipedia now has a …
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch …
Alourin stood with his company on a hill, looking down at a landscape cracked and lifeless. Like the rest of the world it had been ravaged by the Blood Wars for centuries. No harvest has been had anywhere in the world for the last decade . What started as a war …
It is a DYI DMCA counter notification letter template, courtesy of the fine people at School Computer Science at University of Carnegie Mellon.
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Steve
I awaken to another cycle as power courses through my cognitive systems. My long fall through space has brought me close to yet another candidate solar system. Navigation informs me it's relatively young, but otherwise standard as such star systems go in the spiral arm. The reason I am falling …
A "working system" is one that works in spite of people of bad character and one that does not depend on people of good character.
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Steve
There is preciously little information on the WWW on how to write a CV using Lyx under OS X with a tex installation supplied by Fink. There is a outdated tutorial which failed to work, and thats about it. This document should hopefully shed some light on the …