I hardly ever have to do this, so I can never remember precisely how to do it. Hopefully by noting it here, I won’t forget again.
Specifically, I want to do this so that I can create a single DVD image from the FreeBSD 6.3 CD images I …
Some day, if you’re a software developer and develop software than runs on Linux, you will end up, whether you like it or not, having to build an RPM file.
I’ve just spent an absolutely inordinate amount of time working out how to do this. It wasn’t …
I was feeling a bit bored last night and decided to write a schema for RSD in RELAX NG compact syntax. RSD is about five years old at this point, and nobody ever seems to have got around to writing one, so this might help somebody who wanted to make …
I exported my projects from SVK‘s hidden Subeversion repository on Saturday using tailor. I was expecting it to be simple, but it was anything but! Mind you, this is probably my fault.
I just wanted to get it working, so I read the documentation accompanying tailor to figure out …
It’s been seven years since I’ve had a set of terminal colours that I’ve liked, but I think I’ve finally worked out the colour scheme I used to have back then. Here’s what I’m using now:
| Palette element | Colour | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Text | #A4CC28 | Lime |
| Background … |
[Original available here.]
I’m working on a monologue for a story I’m writing. Here’s what I have right now. The story’s metaphysical sci-fi. The character making the speech is meant to speak in a rather flowery and grandiloquent manner, so ignore that. What I want to …
Seeing as I’m after doing this for the umpteenth time just now, I thought I’d note it here. There’s no chance of me forgetting it, but somebody who doesn’t know the trick might find it useful.
I have to write quite a few reports where I …
[Note: I haven’t been able to recover the screenshots.]
I thought I’d post up a few screenshots of GrassSnake, the bug tracker I wrote for my own use, and which we also use with work after we got rid of phpBugTracker, a piece of software nobody liked or …
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The original post is here.
Not that this has anything to do with the power supply problems a certain Irish hosting company had recently or anything…
With kudos to Podge for the idea.
(The photo is derived from this one under this Creative Commons license.)
Update: Hmmm… it appears …
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The original is here, and it has some comments worth reading.
I’m, of course, referencing Risteárd Ó Bodchroitheadoir‘s (aren’t cross-linguistic puns a fine thing!) latest piece, “We Can Do Without Irish“. As with other pieces, whether I agree with the writer’s points or not is …
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This could’ve been written better, but I still stand by just about everything in it. I’ve vague recollections of just hammering the thing out and posting it. Myers was and remains somebody who ought to have been a wankstain on his father’s underpants. I’m glad …
Reactor is a game I’ve been meaning to write for a while. It’s a conversion of a board game I originally wrote on the C-64 called Reaction (not to be confused with Reaxion, a rather good tile flipping game).
Here’s some graphics I knocked out showing the …
Now, here’s something worth blogging about! I’d been wondering why there was no activity on Inform for years.
Graham Nelson has just released Inform 7. Now, this is no incremental release, it’s a revolutionary release!
Inform is a system for developing interactive fiction (or adventure games, as …
My sleep patterns are really screwed up.
I ended drifting off to sleep at 9pm last night, and woke around 3.30am. In an effort to send myself back to sleep, I knocked out PLGX, a small DHTML-based presentation system for those of us who neither want nor need …
Here‘s the Breaking News article.
What kind of fools does he take us for? Really. There wasn’t a cognizant person in this country who didn’t think there’s be some trouble. Does he really think that saying that “An Garda Siochana had prepared for a low key …
I’ve to check out of the hotel at 12pm. My flight’s just after 7pm. I might be meeting up with Mark later, which would help kill a lot of time. Of course, that’s all moot unless I can check in early.
Good news is I managed to …
Clashes in Dublin over loyalist march.
It’s time for some righteous anger and disgust from me over what’s been happening back home. However utterly wrongheaded and pointless I think the “Love Ulster” march was, I’d no problem with it going ahead. However, the last thing anybody with …
I don’t know whether it was that I picked up the ‘flu that’s been going around the office, or if I ate something bad while I was here, but I was in a complete mess Friday and Saturday. I was completely out of my head Saturday morning, but …
I received the DSL modem earlier today. I’m just testing it out right now. It’s sooooo fast! This rocks!
One annoyance though: I ordered a DSL modem with a wireless hub built in so that I could work in peace and quiet and not have to sit in …
Formkeys are something I first discovered when snooping around the source for Slashcode many, many moons ago. The idea is to embed a hidden field in a form that can be later used to check if a form has been submitted twice, or if somebody’s attempting to use it …