posts brought to you by the category “unix”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database
table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
Philip Gourevitch : "What if the ultimate horror of the Congo
nightmare is that there is no price for ignoring it?"
Baby squirrels!
I'm still trying to decide if Karl's photograph of those horrible
pink trees
Me : ASCOPE::IDP.pm 1.1
ATSA : Les Murs du Feu
Perl6 Object Oriented Cookbook
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : confute
Confute \Con*fute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confuted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Confuting}.] [L. confutare to chek (a boiling
liquid), to repress, confute; con- + a root seen in futis a water
vessel), prob. akin to fundere to pour: cf. F. confuter. See {Fuse} to
melt.] To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or
show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence. Satan stood . .
. confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing fallacious drift.
--Milton. No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some
true principle that contradicts his error. --Chillingworth. I confute a
good profession with a bad conversation. --Fuller. Syn: To disprove;
overthrow; sed aside; refute; oppugn. Usage: To {Confute}, {Refute.}
Refute is literally to and decisive evidence; as, to refute a calumny,
charge, etc. Confute is literally to check boiling, as when cold water
is poured into hot, thus serving to allay, bring down, or neutralize
completely. Hence, as applied to arguments (and the word is never
applied, like refute, to charges), it denotes, to overwhelm by evidence
which puts an end to the case and leaves an opponent nothing to say; to
silence; as, ``the atheist is confuted by the whole structure of things
around him.''
web1913
confute v : prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his
colleagues' theories" [syn: {disprove}] [ant: {prove}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
fempulation
Female population.
ex. The majority of the fempulation of the world have
once uttered the phrase "men are pigs."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : zeppster
An avid or devout fan of the band Led
Zeppelin.
ex. Wally's a real zeppster.
Me : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm 0.2
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : laudable
Laudable \Laud"a*ble\, a. [L. laudabilis: cf. OE. laudable.
See {Laud}, v. i.] 1. Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy;
commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.
2. (Med.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote
healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.
--Arbuthnot.
web1913
laudable adj : worthy of high praise; "applaudable efforts
to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable
motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and
praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence" [syn: {applaudable},
{commendable}, {praiseworthy}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : acumen
Acumen \A*cu"men\, n. [L. acumen, fr. acuere to sharpen.
Cf. {Acute}.] Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of
mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. --Selden. Syn: Sharpness;
sagacity; keenness; shrewdness; acuteness.
web1913
acumen n 1: a tapering point 2: shrewdness shown by keen
insight [syn: {insightfulness}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : baggapple
Used when you stub your toe or hurt yourself. Scream this
in place of a curse word.
ex. Baggapple, I just hurt my finger
hammering.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : desideratum
Desideratum \De*sid`e*ra"tum\, n.; pl. {Desiderata}. [L.,
fr. desideratus, p. p. See {Desiderate}.] Anything desired; that of
which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
web1913
desideratum n : something desired as a necessity; "the
desiderata for a vacation are time and money"
wn
Me : SCNS.pm 0.1
# Simple
my $method = "examples.getStateName";
print SCNS->new("xmlrpc:http://betty.userland.com/RPC2")->$method(40);
# Less simple
my $service = SCNS->new("xmlrpc:http://betty.userland.com/RPC2");
my $debug = FileHandle->new(">./debug.txt");
# See below
$service->class("examples");
# Default is STDERR
$service->debug(1,*$debug);
my $answer = $service->getStateName(4);
if (! defined($answer)) {
die $service->last_error();
}
print $answer;
return 1;
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : labatyd
"Life's A Bitch And Then Ya Die" Usually in response to
whining complaints.
ex. A. "Can you believe it? He only gave me a 3% raise!"
B. "Yeah, yeah, labatyd."
Me : WWW::Dictionarydotcom.pm 0.1
116 ->perl -I/home/asc/lib/perl -e '
use WWW::Dictionarydotcom;
use Data::Dumper;
print &Dumper(WWW::Dictionarydotcom->new()->wotd());'
$VAR1 = {
'etymology' => SCALAR,
'definition' => SCALAR,
'permalink' => SCALAR,
'word' => SCALAR,
'usage' => ARRAY REFERENCE
};
Marc Silver : A basic guide to securing FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE
Movable Thoughts #9
Tels : Dev::Bollocks.pm
"implements /dev/bollocks, which generates
management bullshit whenever you need it. ... this module doesn't simple
do a head /dev/bollocks, that would be too easy, too fast and
non-portable. And bullshit is universilly portable. Thus the module makes
a subclass of Math::Sting and changes the default charset to a charset
that emulates the original /dev/bollocks charset. As a side-effect you
can calculate with bollocks strings, or even compare them to find out
which is greater crap than the other."
Pilat Informative Educative : Quelques routines en javascript et
SVG pour manipuler les objets
I confess that I'm not sure what the point of this thread is.
Artforum has a weblog.
Peter G. Neumann : [W]hen there is no security in place, the
alleged culprit cannot have exceeded authority
when no authority is implied. As long-time RISKS
readers will recall, this issue came up relating to the trial of Robert
Tappan Morris: in 1988, the Internet worm never exceeded authority,
because no authority was required to use the sendmail debug option, to
use the .rhosts mechanism, to execute the finger daemon, or to read an
unprotected encrypted password file. I wonder how if prosecutors will
ever figure this out! As long as we attempt to shoot the messenger and
hide lame security behind overly broad laws, weak security will prevail,
and whistleblowers will be much rarer than glassblowers. (For example,
DMCA is among other things an attempt to outlaw whistleblowers.)"
www.humanmarkup.org
"Standardizing human expression through XML. ...
With HumanMarkup, we can finally explicitly annotate and represent the
relevant information within a communications session, including emotions,
intentions, motivations and allusions. Further, we can use XSLT
transformations to represent the various embedded human qualities within
a document. For example, a speech containing anger may be represented in
a larger font or louder voice. Emails that are meant to be taken
seriously could be displayed in bolder text than emails that are meant to
be taken lightly could be displayed in lighter text. The embedded
emotional content within a message could be aurally or visually
represented when a mouse rolls over the words. Finally, the embedded
cultural context within a text could explicitly represent the mindset and
associations of the communicator."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is yen
| source : web1913 | Yen \Yen\, n. The unit of
value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard,
in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal
to 100 sen. | source : web1913 | Ye \Y"["e]\ ([=e]"e), n.; pl. {Y["e]n}
([=e]"en). An eye. [Obs.] From his y["e]n ran the water down. --Chaucer.
| source : wn | yen n 1: a yearning for something or to do something
[syn: {hankering}] 2: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
v : have a yen for [syn: {long}, {ache}, {yearn}, {pine}, {languish}]
Clever XSL/JavaScript hack for returning the name of the current
node
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is abstruse
| source : web1913 | Abstruse \Ab*struse"\, a.
[L. abstrusus, p. p. of abstrudere to thrust away, conceal; ab, abs +
trudere to thrust; cf. F. abstrus. See {Threat}.] 1. Concealed or hidden
out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest
thoughts. --Milton. 2. Remote from apprehension; difficult to be
comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound
and abstruse topics. --Milman. | source : wn | abstruse adj : difficult
to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or
knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students
tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite
problem in historiography" [syn: {deep}, {recondite}]
Steve Dietz : "This is open-source living in the digital age.
It's making a political statement about ownership
and commercialism. It's not just about viewing. Not only can you see in,
but you can use the plans yourself. Net art has always been centered
around the idea of appropriating the institutionalized system for the
artist's own purposes, and that's clearly what they're doing."
Pico Iyer : Mongrel Beauties
"For many years -- for all my life, really --
I've been travelling the world looking at how different countries and
people try to make sense of the multicultural mixes we're all becoming.
One of the unusual and potent things about the present moment is that the
very issue that so many cultures and cities are facing is exactly the
same one that more and more individuals such as myself are confronting:
How to fashion a sense of self or home when all the traditional
co-ordinates are gone? And how to make a peace among the disparate, often
competing, cultures inside of us? How, in short, to begin to create a
sense of direction -- and foundation -- when the world is spinning around
us at the speed of light?"
Damian Conway : "And, yes, eventually there will be a complete
Perl-in-Klingon module: Lingua::tlhIngan::yIghun.
The really scary part is that, based on my
previous experience with Lingua::Romana::Perligata, Coy, and
Quantum::Superpositions, I am certain that somewhere out there is someone
who will actually use it. see also :
Never Trust
a Klingon
(via
rebecca's pocket
)
"Writers and Company" interviews Art Spiegelman,
parts
one
and
two
(real audio)
Me : "RSSBlog.pm is largely a repackaging of code originally
written
by Jonathon Eisenzopf for his
Weblog
tool. I wrote RSSBlog because I wanted to be able to use the
syndication/templating code he wrote via modules in my own programs."
Victor Liu See-le : "b. is a Web-based manager for Web
bookmarks.
... b. now supports multi-user environments.
Using basic Web server user authentication (i.e. by password-protecting
the b./ directory), only certain users can have access to b.. Each user
has his/her own bookmarks and optionally can have his/her own theme,
welcome message, etc."
My friend Susie (that's Susan to you) got written up in the Globe
yesterday
"Weinthaler contributed a piece she calls
Godzilla Golf, in which contestants don a gigantic latex Godzilla head
and then terrorize a miniature town by attempt to hit golf balls into
it." see also :
Purple
Girl of the Month : Susan Weinthaler
All basements are not created equal.
I found these photos while preparing for The Big
Move 2.0. With six and half foot high stucco ceilings and (dark) fake
wood panelling, this is the place that I have measured all the others
against. Just West of Little Italy, we lived three to the basement with
another three "apartments" in the house. Above the kitchen lived a woman
our age, affectionately dubbed The Screamer. Somewhere above my
make-shift room, lived the single mother whose son was taken away from
her by the police on an April morning; not soon enough to prevent her
from beating the shit out of him too many times. We never saw the people
on the second floor but they got more mail than the rest of us combined.
This is where I quit smoking, rediscovered computers and
made these
paintings
.
Jazz fans take note
Boston's WGBH, has complimented their unbearably
flaky QuickTime streaming audio with a more reliable
Media Player
audio feed
. WGBH is the home of
Eric in the Evening
, which is five hours of good solid (well, mostly good -- Eric has a
flavour for terrible terrible crooners) jazz, live performances and
interviews. Monday - Thursday, 19h00 - 0h00 EST.
David O. Russell : The Indie Scale
"Let's try it again. If your film combines Rural
Life and Homosexuality and then factors in the additional element of
Strange Violence, you get 40 points, and such winning projects as "Boys
Don't Cry" and "My Own Private Idaho." Or try Murder and Homosexuality,
which combine for such recent attention getters as "Flawless" and "The
Talented Mr. Ripley." "
It's nice to see websites acting like cigarette companies
and re-designing their packaging for seemingly no
other reason than to garner attention and increaseco-called mindshare.
All I know is I can't read anything because I keep getting distracted by
all those foofy dots ( I struggle on in a war of attrition with one of my
employers over the use of bullets ) and triangles and those lines. What
is up with those lines? see also
MetaFilter / Zeldman : I smell cubicle
. Update : via
haughey
comes
plain vanilla
Salon
, just the way we like it.
Managing Knowledge using a Semantic-Network
Montreal Gazette : Ici, on parle E-com
You know, one of the best things the city of
Montreal did in recent years was to set up a grant program where small
businesses could access funds to improve their store fronts. It has done
more to revitalize parts of the city than Y-A Convention Center project
ever could. So now the provincial government, eager to ride the
coat-tails of the dot.com revolution, is going to build another
convention center. Les Quebecois have already shown themselves to be
pretty quick on their feet and I bet the Keeners and True Believers could
put the money to better use than tubular office buildings. A sort of "the
street finds it's own use for things" situation. This is all about buying
votes and creating a false sense of security so that the Old Guard of the
P.Q. can see a sovereign Quebec in their lifetime. This is why a
referendum won't be won any time soon : the only people who stand to gain
are the politicians and their over-inflated sense of pride and people
know it.
Meanwhile, in Toronto...
National Post : With glowing hearts we see thee advertise
"I am stupid, have no redeeming social value,
speak 'American,' hate everybody and drive a big-ass monster truck with a
Confederate flag on top," writes one angry Yankee in a posted screed.
"Oops, not me ... but that is how I've been described by 3/4 of you
jackasses. If you're losing sleep because you feel slighted by the Yanks,
you suck. Plain and simple."
Kudos to Cam
and company for
Sullivan
. Cam has also been known to ask people what they dream about, so I
thought of him last night when I awoke to the sound of rain striking the
roof. For a brief, terrible moment I was certain that [the rain] was a
cgi-script to make water run amok.
I wonder who decided
Messages from the past to the future
Last night
Gary Chapman : Putting responsibility before technical
progress
"After the [DDoS] attacks, Weinstein wrote, 'For
now, it might be advisable for everyone to remember that the Internet,
for all its wonders, is in many ways very fragile. We must not allow
ourselves to get into a position where being cut off from a site for a
few hours -- or even longer -- puts people or property at risk. Our lives
should not revolve around guaranteed 24/7 access to eBay, or Yahoo!, or
any site on the public Internet, regardless of its importance.' "
Project Gutenbook
"is a graphical interface written in Perl/GTK+
for downloading, browsing and reading Project Gutenberg Etexts."
The Canadian Student Federation demonstrations yesterday
led me their
Declaration of Student Rights
. I hate documents like this. I can't tell if they are legitimate
statements of principle or just bargaining tools. The basic thrust seems
to be that post-secondary education should be *whatever* the student body
decides it is at *any* given moment, no matter what. It obscures and
trivializes more important and immediate issues. Ultimately, it begs the
question: why go to school at all? If all you want to do is be learned,
read a book. Schools exist beyond any one student's tenure and make their
decisions accordingly.
Leah Casner on webcams
"We have reached an even emptier level of fame,
beyond even the "being famous for being famous" level. We are feeling
famous for just being in view of anyone who wants to look. At least I
haven't mistaken my new celebrity as an indication that I should run for
president."
Chris Nandor : RSS and you
Le Glossaire Québécois
"Tu peux câlisser ton P'tit Larousse dans la
rivière!" via <a href =
"http://altern.org/groov3/yahoo/med.html">Youhou!</a>
Harvey Blume thinks the barbarians are the gate
only this time they "are camouflaged by Linux to
appear friendly, cooperative, even cuddly (with adorable Finnish
accents)..."
Linda Seebach : Joining a digital library
Tony Quinn
"There is nothing that the U.S. government has
done to bring about our new wealth. From a California perspective,
Washington is almost a foreign capital, almost another government. We
look upon ourselves as a nation-state. We are more than one out of 50."
Duh, can somebody say
DARPA
? I always get a big kick asking Americans Against Taxes (I know I know)
who they think pays for, what are truly are, the best roads on the
planet.
Bob Metcalfe : What if I-commerce were restricted on weekends?
You know, I tend to agree that trying to regulate
the hours an e-commerce site is "open" is pretty goofy on a global level.
I do not, however, think that the efforts of people to try and insure a
quality of life we have come to expect and enjoy need to be subject to
this kind of petty sarcasm. [These] are complicated and important issues
that need to be addressed because we all still breath the same air. Just
because I might want to be a keener doesn't make me more special and
someone else a loser. To think otherwise, from what I've seen, is often
just ego-fucking.
Boston Globe
"Today, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
will grapple with the question of what should become of the microscopic
fertilized eggs, and could tackle legal and ethical issues few other
states have addressed: What is the legal status of a human embryo? Is it
property, a person, or something in between?" If you didn't think that
was complicated enough, the parties involved are divorced and arguing
about whether or not to have more children. I think I'll just go play
with some data structures, now, and pretend the world is simple.
Champ libre : 4ème manifestation internationale vidéo et art
électronique
Requires all the bells and whistles and is near
impossible to actually navigate. Fortunately the nice people at Radio
Canada put together a
page 'o' links
for some of the projects.
DNTO : How the Internet is taking us away from work... and creating
jobs
"Right now the most interesting, interactive and
compelling parts of the web are designed for people who are really
supposed to be doing something else, something else called work."
Apparently, I only have a 17% Humanity Quotient.
Upside on IPIX
"Ipix has patented the use of a camera and a
fish-eye lens to capture two images that [are] combined via software
algorithms, to produce an image that can be viewed on a computer to
simulate an immersive environment," says one member of the
International
QuickTime VR Association ( IQTVR )
, an international group supporting the Apple technology. "This is like
Crayola patenting the use of paper and drawing instruments to produce art
and then charging people for each sheet of paper used."
NY Times : The Éminence of Excess
Isn't is fitting that on the craziest weekend in
recent memory, here on the Vineyard, the Times runs a feature on Mickey
-The Gapman- Drexler's architect. (Drexler recently built an enormous
boat-shaped trophy house, up-Island, complete with 5000$ bathroom
fixtures.)
Utne Reader : Y2K Citizen's Action Guide
Available in hard-copy and pdf versions.
Does anyone know
whether the
AirPort
can, does, or will support encryption?
MOSR
is saying there is 40-bit encryption between the Pods and the Creamsicles
(see
peterme
), but I don't whether or not to believe them.
Gavin McNett on "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace"
"But then, if you look at the notion of
"cyberspace" in rigorously historical terms, the idea that a person
running a Web browser is somehow flying through an ethereal realm of pure
data is just the flip side of the notion that if you open up the TV,
you'll find little people dancing around inside."
Matthew Mirapaul : An Attack on the Commercialization of Web
Art
"Rinehart said: 'Is $52.50 the true value of the
work? Well, it doesn't need to be, because I sold a copy of the work to
Robbin, not exclusive ownership rights. I sold the only form of property
relevant in the 'e-verse:' intellectual property. Maybe digital artists
could make up in volume at low prices what they lose in uniqueness at
high prices.' " Does anyone remember Paul Allen spending $6M of his own
money to help Jimi Hendrix' father secure his son's "image rights" ?
This is a test
Doonesbury
"Who's the teeny little man, poppy?" Cookies,
registration & other games until next week. Compliments of the No Fun
police.
The Holden Caufield Fan Club
wtf?
-
dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
-
yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
-
it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.
<link rel = "semantics" type = " text/cow " href = "..." />
. Cascading Ontology for the Web, indeed!