I was attempting to upgrade some unrelated packages on my FreeBSD server, with the net result that something truly horrible happened (and which I don’t really understand): apache2 and mysql were essentially deleted from my system. Curse you portupgrade. I’m becoming less enamoured with my old time friend FreeBSD, and more enamoured [...]
All this mucking around in the ICFP contest (I decoded the all the gene tables yesterday, woohoo) has sent me back thinking about simple machines which are Turing compatible. A very nice page about such stuff is:
John’s Combinatory Logic Playground
Which includes papers and implementations of binary combinatory logic. Neat!
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Well, I didn’t have time to actually do the challenge this year, but I’m trying to work through it here. I made some significant progress, and can now render pictures of Endo’s RNA:
There is some minor issue which causes a small y offset between this image and the target. I can’t for the [...]
Today, five years ago, I posted my first message to the newly christened brainwagon.org. Now, a couple of thousand posts and a thousand comments later, I’m still here, boring people with the rather odd and eclectic collection of posts. I hope some of you continue to enjoy it.
Well, I am still on vacation, but took time out this morning to skim the problem description for the 2007 ICFP programming contest. It involves finding modifications to the DNA of a crashlanded alien named Endo, who will surely perish without our help. Wish I had brought my laptop: looks like fun, [...]
have just dropped their 8th game in a row, in truly ugly style. They now are 12 games back of the Angels, and 10 back from the Mariners. Earlier this afternoon, they sent veteran catcher Jason Kendall to the Cubs. It seems to me that Beane is having a sale, and everyone [...]
One of my personal pet peeves are companies that try to assert intellectual property rights over material which has entered the public domain. It’s everywhere: museums claiming copyright over photographs and scans of artwork, movie companies that tag public domain movies with copyright warnings, and even in copy centers which refuse to copy books [...]
Why do people think these things are a good idea? I don’t get it.
Yesterday, I received an Arduino microcontroller board in the mail. These things use the Atmel AVR microcontroller (specifically, an ATMEGA168) and include a nice little FTDI USB to serial chip and are pre-programmed with a boot loader for [...]
Okay, I haven’t posted anything about baseball lately, so I thought I’d remark about the oddest play I’ve heard of this week. No, it wasn’t Ichiro Suzuki’s inside-the-park homerun during the All Star game (although that was bitching), but rather occurred during tonight’s game between the Athletics and Twins.
Cuddyer triples off A’s middle reliever [...]
This came across a mailing list I’m on:
Inside the iPhone field test mode - Blog - WirelessInfo.com
Basically if you dial:
*3001#12345#*
Then you get dumped into a menu which allows you to read out all sorts of interesting details about your phone and its connection to AT&T’s network. Note: I did this on my phone, it [...]
I love food. I mean I really love it. I love the culture. I love the taste. I love the social aspects of food. I love the different cultures. The spice. The flavor. Flames. Ovens. Bread. Meats. Fruits. It’s all good, baby.
I [...]
Okay, I bought one. I’ve had it for 24 hours, and I really like it. It’s slick. It’s got lots of cool features. And it is just damned shiny and screams cool. But to demonstrate that I’m not a total fanboy, I present for your consideration a list of [...]
Here’s Apple’s documentation for developing web stuff for the iPhone. It’s not all that surprising mostly, but it is good to keep a link to this hanging around.
Apple Developer Connection - Web Development for iPhone
Addendum: Josh, if you are looking for info on which codecs, bitrate etc to use for the iPhone, here it [...]
The EFF filed a request for documents pertaining to invesigations within the FBI on abuses of National Security Letters. They replied with over 1100 pages of information. I haven’t had a chance to delve too deeply into this, but it seems clear that when government agenceies are granted liberties with our rights, they [...]
It seems only fair that I give a link to a new telephone product that has more of my ideals in mind: witness openmoko.com, which you can now apparently order for the first time.
It’s an entirely open Linux based phone, with some pretty nifty features. Their first model is the Neo1973. It’s specs [...]
