- 25th
- The Null Post, part 2 → Hello dearies! james.lab6.com is back, and this time it’s run by professionals! No more flaky python-scripted manually-edited raw XML files and bare static HTML output. No more problems with HTML entities and Unicode crud. But also no more perfectly crafted URLs. Switching to Wordpress means everything goes in a database, which is fine from a [...]
- The copyright deal → Before, after, and, inexplicably, during, a ride on Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park, I had an interesting discussion on copyright rights and wrongs with Dave. This is not Nemesis Inferno Anyone under the age of 30 and over the age of 3 will undoubtedly be familiar with both rollercoasters and the exact wording and intent of international [...]
- 28th
- All the things I sed → It looks like static HTML is futureproof after all! .htaccess files can be set up to catch all links and funnel them through a script which enables clever or simple URLs; Wordpress does this. They can also be made to defer to the filesystem, so if the directories 2003, 2004 and 2005 exist (and [...]
- A short attempt at installing Ubuntu 6.10 → What follows is a short log of me installing Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft on an old Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop: Nice boot screen. LiveCD is a bit slow. Went to black screen, then resorted to text status messages. An X screen! And the mouse works! Hmm, looks like a light blue screen is all I’m going to [...]
- 29th
- Old, busted. →
- The trainwreck industry → In 1895, this happened: A train crashed through the buffers at Montparnasse Station, Paris, then smashed through the wall and fell out onto the street. A woman below was killed. The cause seems to have been an excess of paperwork. I wouldn’t have thought a French train crash such an unusual thing, but in 2004, I saw [...]
- 31st
- Missing errata → Via Dave and linuxmafia: A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. Back when generating random numbers was hard, this kind of thing was a Nobel Prize for Literature-winning masterpiece. The RAND corporation even has an errata slip for the book, although it’s not the mythical errata to the digits themselves which Murray Gell-Mann mentions [...]
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