Written on Thursday, the 4th of November, 2004 at 2:59 pm and was filed under:
Nerdity
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty used to my key combinations in Windows. My job is programming, which means that I live and die by the keyboard. I expect the keyboard to behave in certain ways - those shortcuts are what keeps my typing speed up.
Yes, I have been able to remap some of the keys, but seemingly not enough.
Also, this 400MHz G4 (new to me) is slow compared to my Athlon 2200+ desktop. Well, I suppose that is to be assumed given the wide disparities in clock speeds, but still, it doesn’t help my impression of this thing.
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Written on Tuesday, the 28th of September, 2004 at 12:07 am and was filed under:
Uncategorized,
Nerdity
Though the weather outside is frightful… Oh! Wait, I mean, the weather outside is beautiful, and I was up at the crack of nine to go into my new place of employment.
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Written on Monday, the 23rd of August, 2004 at 3:59 am and was filed under:
Nerdity,
Speaking in Tongues
What happens when you try to display text encoded in one character set in another character set? Garbage characters. I'm working on a migration module for gallery - to upgrade from one type of data storage to a completely different one. Along the way I keep learning about character sets and character set conversion. Here's a lovely set of words for something that I would rather not see - garbled, junky international text.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: (paraphrased)
Mojibake
文字化け: [mojibake] moji: character + bake: change/ghost.
亂碼 or 乱码: [luan4 ma3] “chaotic code(s)”, in Chinese.
крокозябра [krokozyabry]: The Russian term for mangled characters.
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Written on Tuesday, the 27th of July, 2004 at 3:49 pm and was filed under:
Nerdity
Do you have the Tibetan language pack installed?
ༀམཎིཔདྨེཧཱུྃ༔
It looks like I don't.
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Written on Wednesday, the 31st of December, 2003 at 5:29 pm and was filed under:
Music,
Nerdity
My mom got me a very cool present for Christmas. Thanks, Mom!
I already had a large number of mp3s, but now I am redoubling my efforts to organize and document them with appropriate mp3 tags. To that end I am using two or three things on my PC, from iTunes to Rio's own management software.
So far, iTunes has the coolest playlist options - I can basically write any criteria for a playlist and iTunes will get those songs. For instance, I have a playlist of songs rated four or five stars that I haven't listened to in two weeks. If I rate a new file with five stars it just magically shows up on that playlist. Of course, iTunes doesn't sync with my Rio Karma and I haven't found an option to export a playlist in m3u format, but I have done some shenanigans with iTunes's xml data, xsltproc, and perl to produce m3u files in bulk. I can drag those playlists to my Rio, and all the associated songs go with it.
There are some caveats, but this thing is quickly becoming my constant companion. I wish that it has iTunes-style playlists built in. I wish that I could rate songs and use that data to sort music. I wish that I could assign my own metadata. I wish that I could access all of the ID3v2 tags.
Anyway, whereever I go, I can finally hear those Tom Waits albums that I have lurking in my collection. That pretty much means that I can listen to my music all day at work. 20GB means that I don't have to listen to the same albums over and over again, so I will finally be giving Cake a rest.
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Written on Tuesday, the 16th of September, 2003 at 11:08 pm and was filed under:
Diversions,
Nerdity
http://www.sebastian-r.de/asciiart/
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Written on Friday, the 12th of September, 2003 at 1:42 am and was filed under:
Nerdity,
Speaking in Tongues
Thanks, http://www.tigernt.com/, you always know just what I want!
画廊 [hua4 lang2] /gallery/
美术馆 [mei3 shu4 guan3] /art gallery/
畫廊 [hua4 lang2] /gallery/
美術館 [mei3 shu4 guan3] /art gallery/
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Written on Friday, the 29th of August, 2003 at 2:55 pm and was filed under:
Nerdity
Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, is t33kid. t33kid is probably the lamest hacker handle I have ever seen. t33kid has been arrested for releasing a variant of the Blaster worm. t33kid lives in Hopkins. Hopkins! That's twenty minutes away! If I would have known, I would have gone and kicked his ass.
I probably would have needed help, because he is a big big guy, and I'm not talking about what may or may not be in his pants. This time.
t33kid!
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,84501,00.html
t33kid!
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Written on Saturday, the 31st of March, 2001 at 5:50 pm and was filed under:
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Nerdity
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Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:50pm:
by jmullan
I wish that I could say that I had big news for those fans(?) of jmullan.visi.com, but really, aside from collecting another domain (again?), there’s not much to report.
Okay, well, I suppose that the co-sysop, Kory, has acquired a new machine to replace the tired and aging Pentium 200 that is the current jmullan.visi.com workhorse. But that might not happen for another month. Or two. It all depends on how quickly he moves and whether or not he wants to give up having a linux box in his apartment or not. It should be cool, though, since we’ll have a clean, fresh install of everything.
Server issues:
All systems are functioning within normal parameters.
Like certain fallen angels, this server goes by many names:
your sysop (Jesse Mullan) :)
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Written on Tuesday, the 25th of January, 2000 at 4:46 pm and was filed under:
Uncategorized,
Nerdity
I haven't done much with the server in the last couple of weeks. I've been fiddling with mysql and cgi some. The results
can be seen in my cars application, which isn't much more than a practice query. I've also been
fiddling with some other things (now that the mysql permissions are sorted out), but nothing important…
Server issues:
- Still have to take over DNS service for idlespeculation.com and implication.com
- I've taken over hosting http://www.rallymn.com,
but I'm doing it in a sneaky manner.
- I've got to remember to have the server boot into text mode instead of X-windows. It might save some precious, precious
RAM, not that I've noticed any real performance issues.
lto:jmullan@visi.com>Jesse Mullan
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