http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress Various projects and musings Thu, 15 May 2008 18:08:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Massive thanks to durka on #lisp on irc.freenode.net. New versions of slime for emacs have had enabled by default a new feature, essentially a light highlighting of uncompiled changes to a file. At first I found it annoying but then I got used to it. It is kind of handy. ... http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/291 Ok, so I know we announced it at around Christmas, but *now* the Mindstab AI Go Competition is starting to get under way. Both Rob and I now have entries that can compete, though mine is mostly just an over engineered random bot, until I get even more framework ... http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/290 Right, so when doing C development on Ubuntu I suddenly noticed something was missing in the pan pages department. Like all the C api. apt-get install manpages-dev ah that's better. Someone might want to make it part of the 'build-essentials' package. http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/289 So Ubuntu hardy doesn't ship with the handy git wrapper/tool cogito because git has all the features in it incoperated... somewhere... But documentation is surprisingly sparse. Anyways, if you want to set up a git repo nowadays using just git, it should go as something like follows: root@server # cd ... http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/288 So I recall aoss being glitchy at times and generally not working with complex apps. At least that's what I recall. So what is aoss? It's a program that acts as a wrapper around Unix apps that use the OSS sound system and silently converts their OSS calls to ALSA ... http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/287 C++0x, the next version of C++ due by the end of the decade has just had Lambda expressions added to the language. This is great! Read about it at herbsutter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns. It should look something like the following find_if( w.begin(), w.end(), ... http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/286 Why is it snowing? http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/285 So this has been more or less fun so far. Lots of updates everyday, and it's good to keep up with them and fun. Sure occasionally they break a few things, but more often than not things are getting fixed. Thankfully I missed that libc update that ... http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/284 So after a year and a few months, my old cell, a Sony Ericsson k510a was dying. It wasn't the greatest phone but it wasn't bad, but now the keys were sinking and becoming unresponsive. Time for a new phone. So I ordered one last week. And today, ... http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/283 So I walked into class today and my buddy waves me over to sit with him. I look over once seated and see a nice brown screen with a progress bar. Apparently that morning he finally had enough of Windows Vista being slow (his complaint) so he ... http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/archives/282