Physics
Been working on a simple montecarlo lattice simulation. I'm not sure what the model's called. I first heard about it in a talk by Royce Zia at SFU in the mid 90's. The model seems to be credited to him an read more
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raph, you asked about phone headsets. I wore a plantronics during my tech support job a couple of years ago. (A supra voice ...
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Still here
Still working on ghostscript mostly. I've taken on responsibility for the GNU releases, documentation and unix build system (autoconf, finally!) and generally helping out as before. It's gotten more interesting, I'm happy to say, because it's an ideal way to pay the rent!
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Science like Marketing sounds like the name of a Culture ship, only not.
Had an epiphany putting this essay by Phil Agre together Iain Bank's Excession to see how meme-subversion might actually work.
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I feel so dirty
Spent most of the weekend messing with quicktime compression for some friends of mine who want to do independent film distribution over the internet. When they first asked about it (months ago) I suggested they focus on quicktime since it does ...
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Just cast my vote in the icann elections. Was a bit difficult, ranking people based just on their statements and websites without really knowing any of them by reputation. Phil Agre endorsed ...
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Editline
The libedit in the BSDs seems to be more of a shell commandline interface which does tokenization and in-line editing. But there is an 'editline' library, originally by Rich Salz (released on comp.sources.misc in 1992) which is exactly what I was looking for. Drop-in replacement (except for ...
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