http://www.dimator.org/blog Arranging bits for various purposes. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:35:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here’s something I was thinking about. Let’s say cryogenics intrigues you. But you don’t just want to be around in 100 years, what if you want to be thawed out in 1000 years? What about 10,000 years? If you were a billionaire with all the resources ... http://www.dimator.org/blog/2007/02/10/extreme-cryogenics/ GMail can show a minimum of 25 messages on the screen at once. 25 is too tall for me, because I rarely have that many conversations going on at the same time. It turns out that GMail doesn’t validate that value in the settings to be one of ... http://www.dimator.org/blog/2007/01/09/changing-gmail-settings/ I finally made the switch to Ubuntu on my server machine. It was running debian before, and I don’t know whose fault it was, but over the years, upgrading packages became more and more impossible. apt would routinely fail, to the point where I said screw it. ... http://www.dimator.org/blog/2006/12/15/ubuntu/ Erlang seems totally sweet. The biggest “wow” I got was from its concurrency features, which are built-in and stupid easy. Code is also hot-swappable. Hot swappable! Supposedly, Erlang is used by all kinds of heavyweight telco bigwigs, including Ericsson, where it is developed. Here is ... http://www.dimator.org/blog/2006/12/01/erlang/ Yes, I’ve heard the news. Twilight Princess is the second greatest game ever, and I’m stuck Wii-less. But I think I’ve made a decision. I think I’ve sniffed out Nintendo’s next Gamecube, and I think I’m going to steer clear. First party games, like Zelda, Mario, ... http://www.dimator.org/blog/2006/11/24/wii-decision-time/ The president used a word that I didn’t know. I think I knew it once, but had forgotten it. I’m stunned and ashamed. http://www.dimator.org/blog/2006/10/22/news-flash/ 300. This kicks so much ass. If you pause it and go frame by frame, each frame is like a work of art. Reminds me of Kubrick. So good looking, I had to order the book it’s based on. http://www.dimator.org/blog/2006/10/11/best-movie-trailer-evar/ For some reason, this piece of info was difficult to find through the normal channels. Basically, I had the need to run a PPC-only python interpreter, mainly because recompiling all of the PPC-only binary modules we depend on was out of the question. So to get the modules ... http://www.dimator.org/blog/2006/10/04/forcing-applications-to-run-under-rosetta/ Recently, Google removed the “Groups” link from the top of their search results page, in favor of a link to Google Video. Why would they do that? Their schemes for capturing the emerging online video market should not interfere with my work. I saw this link ... http://www.dimator.org/blog/2006/08/22/restoring-google-groups-link-with-greasemonkey/ I had to do a little road trip for work. It was kind of fun saying to everyone (waiters, hotel front desk people) “Ya, I’m here on business.” I could see myself doing more of such trips. The charm of staying in a hotel room runs out, ... http://www.dimator.org/blog/2006/08/12/on-business/