posts brought to you by the category “beos”
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.
Sighted : The B-boat
Joshua Stein : Replacing WEP with IPsec
The Darwin Streaming Server is now part of the FreeBSD ports
collection
Leon Brocard : WWW::Gazetteer.pm
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : methodist
religious
A Golden Mean sort of religious--probably more
fundamental or evangelical than Unitarians, but less than the
Pentecostal religions.
ex. Me: Her son seems to be pretty religious, probably
more so than Susan. Her: Our kids are religious, too. They're
Methodist religious. You know what I mean, don't you? Me: Yes, I went
to MYF every Sunday night. But that was largely because there were a
lot of cute girls there from the neighboring church. We also had a
regular Sunday night poker game afterwards.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : muppet
Mild insult to the mildly dippy. Usually reserved for
someone doing something without calling upon common sense in the
process.
ex. "And then the man from the RAC told me my car was not
working because I'd run out of petrol." "You muppet!"
BBC : Art prize eludes van man
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : affable
Affable \Af"fa*ble\, a. [F. affable, L. affabilis, fr.
affari to speak to; ad + fari to speak. See {Fable}.] 1. Easy to be
spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with
them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and
courteous gentleman. --Shak. His manners polite and affable.
--Macaulay. 2. Gracious; mild; benign. A serene and affable
countenance. --Tatler. Syn: Courteous; civil; complaisant; accessible;
mild; benign; condescending.
web1913
affable adj : diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an
affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial
greeting"; "a genial host" [syn: {amiable}, {cordial}, {genial}]
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Michael Boyle : Can someone please tell me why, or if, I should
care about the newly-beta-released Google Web APIs?
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : quiztory
the recording of a quiz night victory
ex. WOW,What a win by table number 8, this will surely go
down in quiztory as the greatest win ever
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : phillatio
Licking a stamp.
ex. Did you hear about Phil--the guy who performed
phillatio on a stamp?
Radio Crankypants #17 : On streaming and security
Matt Sergeant : "It's Lego for XML."
Me : rss-parser.js 0.1
Me : render-changes-rss.js
Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent
provides interoperability between RDF based
calendar descriptions on the web, and Personal Information Manager (PIM)
Systems such as Microsoft's Outlook."page."
I've always thought Damien Hirst was a bit of a twit
Stefano Rodighiero : cddb_cover.pl
"insert a CD in your cd-reader / be sure your
internet connection is up / run this script / print the .pdf file it will
create / use scissors / feel guilty ;)"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is milksop
| source : web1913 | Milksop \Milk"sop`\, n. A
piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded
person. --Shak. To wed a milksop or a coward ape. --Chaucer. | source :
wn | milksop n : a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
[syn: {sissy}, {pantywaist}, {pansy}, {Milquetoast}]
David Bollier : Can the Information Commons Be Saved?
"How Intellectual Property Policies Are Eroding
Democratic Culture and Some Strategies for Asserting the Public Interest"
via
libjuice
. (pdf)
Benoit Marchal : Introducing XM, a poor man's content manager
"Many webmasters have turned a combination of
scripts (JSP, ASP, or PHP) and a database to help them cope with an
ever-growing site. This approach works, but it's not without faults. For
one thing, it puts a toll on the server, so the pages may load more
slowly. Also script-based Web sites are more prone to bugs or even
crashes (of course, I speak for myself; bugs do not afflict your code).
Finally, search engines are less likely to index dynamically generated
sites. Overall I have found that, while scripts and databases may make
life easier for the webmaster, they are far from optimal for the visitor.
... I propose an alternative built on XML and XSLT. Indeed it's easy to
prepare documents in DocBook or another XML vocabulary and convert them
automatically to HTML. Automatically is the operative word here. The goal
is to cut on manual processing and automate as much of the site
maintenance as possible. I like to think of it as moving from small-scale
to industrial-scale webmastering."
via
more
like this
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is interlard
| source : web1913 | Interlard \In`ter*lard"\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Interlarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Interlarding}.]
[F. entrelarder. See {Inter-}, and {Lard}.] 1. To place lard or bacon
amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. [Obs.] Whose grain doth rise in
flakes, with fatness interlarded. --Drayton. 2. Hence: To insert between;
to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or
irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions. The
English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular
laws of their own. --Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with
choice Of strongest brandy. --J. Philips. | source : wn | interlard v :
introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions [syn:
{intersperse}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is obstreperous
| source : web1913 | Obstreperous
\Ob*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. obstreperus, from obstrepere to make a noise
at; ob (see {Ob-}) + strepere to make a noise.] Attended by, or making, a
loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. ``The
obstreperous city.'' --Wordsworth. ``Obstreperous approbation.''
--Addison. Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. --B. Jonson. --
{Ob*strep"er*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ness}, n. | source : wn |
obstreperous adj 1: noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys"
2: boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor"
Mark Jason Dominus : qrpff Explained
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nonplus
| source : web1913 | Nonplus \Non"plus\, n. [L.
non not + plus more, further. See {Plural}.] A state or condition which
daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability
to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary. Both of them are a perfect
nonplus and baffle to all human understanding. --South. | source :
web1913 | Nonplus \Non"plus`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nonplused}or
{Nonplussed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nonplusing} or {Nonplussing}.] To
puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment. He
has been nonplused by Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell what it was that he
endeavored to prove. --Spectator. | source : wn | nonplus v : be a
mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the
answer!" [syn: {perplex}, {get}, {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {beat},
{bewilder}, {flummox}, {stupefy}, {stupify}, {gravel}, {amaze},
{dumbfound}, {trounce}]
James Gleick : Inescapably Connected
"We find that people look at their watches four
dozen times a day. And at no time do you realize that more than when you
forget your watch. It's not just that you don't know what time it is; you
feel all out of sorts. The rhythm of your day is all thrown off. So we're
thinking, What other kinds of information can you push into that
peripheral channel? Contacts and schedules and things like that are good.
But what about your stock-market portfolio? Or biometric information
about your loved ones, so you can see how your parents are doing, just to
know whether they're having a good day or a bad day."
Brian Aker : mod_mp3
"turns Apache into your basic RIAA hating, but
every college student loving mp3 streaming server. It can play from a
list of files, either straight through or randomly. It can also be used
to cache mp3's into memory and have the server operate entirely from
memory. Enjoy, groove, mp3s not included."
Steve Traugott : Mail::TieFolder.pm
Jonathan Eisenzopf has updated his Weblog suite.
"Weblog 1.6 includes several bug fixes,
simplified installation procedures, better RSS 1.0 support, and better
documentation."
This snow was shamelessly pilfered
From the Life is Hell department :
I spent most of yesterday certain that Hell was
having to listen to a cell phone that never stops ringing to the tune of
Pachabel's Canon. This morning it was being forced to listen to Jackson 5
clones sing Consumer Season melodies like they were cranked up on angel
dust, over coffee too hot to taste. I don't know what's worse, the
experiences themselves or the fact that my reaction is to start sentences
with phrase like "You people..."
Dan Brickley : XHTML-to-RSS Extractor service [trial-release]
"Specifically, we provide a Web form that you can
use to turn certain kinds of HTML document into the proposed RSS 1.0
channel / syndication format. This approach is designed to free content
authors from the technical detail of evolving formats such as RSS,
WAP/WML, RDF etc. Instead of learning dozens of new acronyms, content
creators can produce XHTML documents, and have software tools do the
rest."
Eric Meyer : The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook
"I kept telling myself that CSS should never be
used for evil. That in the wrong hands, it could wreak havoc upon the
face of the Web as we know it. Then I thought, what the heck, it's not
like anyone can hack servers with CSS. So I gave in and joined the dark
side. Once joined, I felt the need to lure others into the same trap.
Sure, it's evil, but what can you do?"
St. Laurent and Guilbault
"I've never seen someone that stupid man...
You've locked my bike with yours. Page me at 444 at least when it's
unlocked. Please. Sincerement, je suis désolé et tellement distrait.
Toutes mes excuses." Apparently it's Bike Week in Montreal. My experience
of Bike Week is that it's the one time of the year that the police
enforce bicycle laws. Years ago, I got stopped for not having reflectors
on my bike. I got a warning, was told to buy reflectors and to come down
to the station and show the nice police officers. I did the first but not
the second and a couple years later when I finally got my drivers license
I was told that it couldn't be issued since it had already since it had
already been revoked. Pity the poor souls who have to push this kind of
red tape. My tiny bicycle infraction had mushroomed into a couple hundred
dollars worth of fines (one for each wheel, no less.) Pity the poor soul
who had to find the original ticket when I went to pay it.
MacOS Rumors on QuickTime 5
"QuickTime VR will be enhanced with true
three-dimensional "sphere" VR rather than today's "circular" QTVR
environment." mmmmmm...
spheres
Ways to Rome : Processing XML with Perl
"One of Perl's key features is: things can be
done more then one way. This holds when processing XML using Perl. This
brief tutorial solves a simple task again and again using different,
XML-related CPAN modules and programming styles." see also
Michel
Rodriguez's overview of XML Perl modules
by the same name.
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.
Shift on the rise and fall of booth bunnies
MacWeek : Flash printing SDK debuts
Ooh! Smells like dead-tree weblogs to me...
NY Times : Shaping Cities: Pixels to Bricks
"Architects typically get fired in the middle of
projects," said Joel Orr, an urban simulation consultant, "usually
because the owner and architect think they have a shared assumption about
how something will look, which is not true." Virtual tools, he added,
"permit a far greater opening of communication channels between humans
than has ever before been possible."
3D modelling
is still the thing that gets me the most excited about the intersection
between what we commonly think of as technology and the fine arts. My
biggest problem is that I have this ridiculous need to model *every* nook
and cranny rather than settling for texture/bump maps.
Rob Pegoraro wants to use his PGP software
but no one will play with him.
Michael Pilmer, Brain Eating Ape
"Nerds are just socially kind of retarded. They
found themselves in that situation. Geeks might choose to be outcasts,
but nerds are just born." I'm sure that this keen distinction will soon
be worth extra points on an anthropology exam near you.
Qui maîtrise les images maîtrise les esprits
Cette prophétie de Bill Gates accueillait le
visiteur d'une exposition récente à Bonn consacrée aux photos falsifiées
de l'Histoire.
Rick Veitch : The Daily Rare Bit Fiends
"I'm about to learn that in Boston, there are a
lot of firestations, but few police." I trust Rick Veitch to make the
Internet a more interseting place than it is now.
BBC : Txt msging: Th shp of thngs 2 cm?
"Do u spk txt? The chncs r, if u dnt, u wll b4
lng. 2 jdge by ads 4 mob fns, txt msging hs ct pples imagntn, cos thyre
all pshng it lk crzy. 1 sys u can snd pix, anthr sys u cn snd msgs to 15m
pple in UK alne."
Web Reference : PHPhoo
How to build a Yahoo-style site using PHP and
MySQL. "As Spider Man always said, with Great Power comes Great
Responsibility. Put the coffee cup down, remove the cat from your lap,
and concentrate. One false step here and it'll be the last time your
database administrator lets you anywhere near the server, so pay
attention."
George Lucas
"We are moving into a different era in terms of
cinematic experience. I liken it more to the move from painting frescos
in the mid-15th century - when you had to finish that piece of plaster
that day otherwise you couldn't go on. Now we've moved into the era of
oil paintings, which gave the artist more control and more time to think
about what they're doing." I think that it was Han Solo who commented
that Lucas would make a film without human actors if the CGI technology
was good enough. It's interesting that while many in the [plastic] arts
are heralding the end of the artist as individual, replaced instead by
the collaborative, much the opposite is happening in film. via
hack the
planet
.
Hour on CBC Radio-3
"What will guide this youth-oriented programming?
Is it going to be family values, urban stuff or little-kid stuff?" asks
Ed. "No one has answered any of these questions."
CPAST
Comprehensive Perl Arcana Society Tapestry
The End of the Nation State
Some of it may seem a bit dated, but it offers an
interesting perspective on the frightening games the West and Russia have
been playing with each other these days.
wtf?
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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.
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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
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.
