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I give up on the iPhone
I give up on the iPhone for now. I got an iPhone 3G the week they came out for $199, and it was a very pleasant experience. However, somewhere between Fiesta Village and Camp Snoopy at Knott's Berry Farm over the weekend the thing got stolen or lost. I retracked my steps and no luck. The kicker here -- AT&T DOES NOT INSURE IPHONES and since I have ( Read more... ) -
Personal project, live in production
I've been working on it on my evenings for about two weeks now, showed it to some people at work and they encouraged me to get it going. So the Self-Service Metadata Assigner is live, and it's a fairly good demonstration of libiviaMetadata's assignment and extraction capabilities. Go nuts you guys; note it does just as well with PDFs as it does ( Read more... ) -
Hi, Lazyweb!
Here's what I want: a web framework in Javascript. Server and client side. I guess Microsoft kind of could do this with ASP, and Helma kind of does this too but really just uses JSP/Servlets with some bizarre Javascript on top, and I want something more Javascripty, taking advantage of the unique features of the language ( Read more... ) -
Presentations/Mac/Multiplatformery
I've been thinking about giving presentations lately at work. I've enjoyed using PowerPoint on OSX1 and don't really think beyond it for most things, but I've seen that incredibly clever Takahashi method XUL file used (namely in a couple of Audrey Tang's presentations [1 2]) and I wanted to try that out. It would allow me to present on my Apple/OSX ( Read more... ) -
We are back.
Cleanstick.net is back up. We are using Dreamhost now. For some reason, our old host went out of business; I chalk this up to the fact that they failed to bill for services rendered for about a year and a half. -
Lax wireless security and you
If for some reason you can't set up encryption on your wireless network and wish it to stay (relatively) safe from hax0rs, you can do what I do:
- Set up DHCP on your network, 192.168.0.0/25, with automatically assigned IPs starting at 192.168.0.128
- Use MAC-based assignment for DHCP on MAC addresses for computers you use, starting at 192.168.0.2
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Friendship Update!
At my new job there is some cool stuff that we are doing -- today my coworker started integrating an SVM text classifier into our codebase. Really, I get to do all kinds of fun stuff and most importantly, I am learning a lot. Our project is basically a smarter web crawler -- one that does indexing/organizing/classifying/topic assignment for ( Read more... ) -
Whap
I was awakened at 3:00 in the morning a week ago by a terrible grinding noise. It turns out it was the death rattle of the hard drive in my 12" Powerbook, and I don't blame it for failing: it's basically been turned on and in-use for two straight years with a few hibernation breaks when I toted it to campus ( Read more... ) -
Importing a bunch of classes in Python
This is for Jon. Sorry I didn't get to a computer all weekend.
So say you have a module that is a directory of classes and you want to import every class file into the namespace. For example, you have foo/ and inside foo/ you have somefoo.py and someotherfoo.py, each with a class definityion based on their name.
The first thing you need to know ( Read more... ) -
Unix is undeniably cool.
I needed to back up my home directory (I'm leaving my current job in 3 days and I want to keep all my settings/code/documents). I have an external hard drive, but it's formatted FAT32. So to maintain file permissions, I am using tar, so I can untar into my new ~ wherever I end up. The problem is, FAT32 has a 4G file size limit. What to do? split!
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